The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art

ISBN-13: 9780367581510 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 502 str.

Marcel Cobussen; Vincent Meelberg; Barry Truax

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The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art presents an overview of the issues, methods, and approaches crucial for the study of sound in artistic practice. Thirty-six essays cover a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to studying sounding art from the fields of musicology, cultural studies, sound design, auditory culture, art history,

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General Introduction (Marcel Cobussen, Vincent Meelberg, and Barry Truax)

Part 1: Sounding Art

Introduction (Marcel Cobussen)

1. But Is It (Also) Music? (Leigh Landy)

2. Defining Sound Art (Laura Maes and Marc Leman)

3. Sound Leads Elsewhere (Douglas Kahn)

4. Dams, Weirs, and Damn Weird Ears: Post-Ergonal Sound (Seth Kim-Cohen)

5. Sound Words and Sonic Fictions: Writing the Ephemeral (Salomé Voegelin)

6. Field Recording Centered Composition Practices: Negotiating the "Out-there" with the "In-here" (John Levack Drever)

7. Soundwalking, Sonification and Activism (Andrea Polli)

Part 2: Acoustic Knowledge and Communication

Introduction (Marcel Cobussen)

8. Why I Make Music with Natural Sounds (David Rothenberg)

9. > Image > Memory > Sound > Text > (John Wynne)

10. Institutionalized Sound (Frances Dyson)

11. Sonification and Music, Music and Sonification (Paul Vickers)

12. String Theory. Denis Diderot’s Philosophy of Sound and Everything (Veit Erlmann)

13. Music to the Eyes: Intersensoriality, Culture, and the Arts (David Howes)

Part 3: Listening and Memory

Introduction (Barry Truax)

14. That Passing Glance: Sounding Paths Between Memory and Familiarity (Katharine Norman)

15. The Art and Science of Sensory Memory Walking (Helmi Järviluoma)

16. Postphenomenology: Sound Beyond Sound (Don Ihde)

17. Auditory Capital, Media Publics and the Sounding Arts (Kate Lacey)

18. Sonic Subjectivities (Ruth Herbert)

19. Pieces of Music as Memory Capsules (Tiina Männistö-Funk)

Part 4: Acoustic Spaces, Identities, and Communities

Introduction (Vincent Meelberg)

20. Acoustic Space, Community, and Virtual Soundscapes (Barry Truax)

21. Towards an Art of Impregnation (Jean-Paul Thibaud)

22. Restless Acoustics, Emergent Publics (Brandon LaBelle)

23. Sounding Art Climate Change (Matthew Burtner)

24. Unsettling Performances, Soundwalks and Loudspeakers: Gender in Electroacoustic Music and Other Sounding Arts (Hannah Bosma)

25. Developing a Cognitive Heuristic Model of Sound Art (Linda-Ruth Salter and Barry A. Blesser)

Part 5: Sonic Histories

Introduction (Vincent Meelberg)

26. Whistling for the Hell of It (Hillel Schwartz)

27. Shakespeare as Sound Artist (Bruce R. Smith)

28. History, Archaeology, and De-anthropocentrism in Sound Art (Mandy-Suzanne Wong)

29. Weimar Activism: Walter Benjamin’s Work for Radio (Erik Granly Jensen)

30. Mapping Sounding Art: Affect, Place, Memory (Norie Neumark)

Part 6: Sound Technologies and Media

Introduction (Barry Truax)

31. What Would Be a Digital Sound? (Aden Evens)

32. Algorithms, Affect, and Aesthetic Listening (David Cecchetto)

33. Performance with Technology: Extending the Instrument – From Prosthetic to Aesthetic (Simon Emmerson)

34. Distributed Sounding Art – Practices in Distributing Sound (Franziska Schroeder and Pedro Rebelo)

35. The Art of a New Technology: Early Synthesizer Sounds (Trevor Pinch)

36. The Privatization of Sound Space (Mark Grimshaw)

O autorze

Marcel Cobussen is Professor in Music Philosophy and Auditory Culture at Leiden University, the Netherlands, and the Orpheus Institute in Ghent, Belgium. He is co-founding editor of the open access online Journal of Sonic Studies.

Vincent Meelberg is Senior Lecturer and researcher in the Department of Cultural Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and at the Academy for Creative and Performing Arts in Leiden and The Hague. He is co-founding editor of the Journal of Sonic Studies.

Barry Truax is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, where he taught courses in acoustic communication and electroacoustic composition, specializing in soundscape composition.