Techniques of Hearing: History, Theory and Practices

ISBN-13: 9780367713973 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 240 str.

Michael Schillmeier; Robert Stock; Beate Ochsner

Opis

Hearing, health and technologies are entangled in multi-faceted ways. The edited volume addresses this complex relationship by arguing that modern hearing was and is increasingly linked to and mediated by technological innovations.

Spis treści

1.An Unquiet Quiet: The History and ‘Smart’ Politics of Sound Masking in the Office.  2.Technologies of Silence.  3.Pleasure and Pain with Amplified Sound: A Sound and Music History of Loudspeaker Systems in Germany, ca. 1930.  4.Measuring Listening Effort: An Attempt to Quantify Mental Exertion.  5.Hearing Echoes as an Audile Technique: From "Facial Vision" to Experimental Psychology and Echolocation.  6.Mobile Music Listening and the Self-Management of Health and Well-Being.  7.Better Hearing for All - Smart Solutions for the Clinical, Subclinical and Normal-Hearing Population.  8."The Future is Ear" (Hunn 2014): Infrastructures of ‘Smart Hearing’.  9.Listening or Reading? Rethinking Ableism in Relation to the Senses and (Acoustic) Text.  10.Binaural Gaming Arrangements: Techno-Sensory Configurations of Playing the Audio Game A Blind Legend.  11.Hearing Like an Animal: Exploring Acoustic Experience Beyond Human Ears.  12."Adaptive Environments": Ambient Media and the Temporalities of Sonic Selfcare.  13.The Shepherd’s Farewell: Shared Hearing as (a Mode of) Healing – Music, Imagery and Emotion-Neural Dynamics.  14.Dis/abling Smartness: AAC Devices, Music and Acoustic Wellbeing.