Brian Kane

Sound Unseen

Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice

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Produktbeschreibung

Sound Unseen explores the phenomenon of acousmatic sound -- a sound that one hears without seeing its source-and presents a powerful argument for the central yet overlooked role of acousmatic sound in music aesthetics, sound studies, literature, philosophy and the history of the senses.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780190632212
• ISBN-10: 0190632216
• Artikelnr.: 47868019

Autorenporträt

Brian Kane is Associate Professor of Music at Yale University and a founding editor of the journal nonsite.org. His research specializes in contemporary music, sound art, sound studies/auditory culture, histories of listening, and intersections between music and philosophy

Inhaltsangabe

* Table of Contents
* Introduction
* PART I. The Acousmatic Situation
* CHAPTER 1. Pierre Schaeffer, the sound object and the acousmatic
reduction
* PART II. Interruptions
* CHAPTER 2. Myth and the origin of the Pythagorean veil
* CHAPTER 3. The baptism of the acousmate
* PART III. Conditions
* CHAPTER 4. Acousmatic phantasmagoria and the problem of technê
* INTERLUDE. Must musique concrète be phantasmagoric?
* CHAPTER 5. Kafka and the ontology of acousmatic sound
* PART IV. Cases
* CHAPTER 6. The acousmatic voice
* CHAPTER 7. Acousmatic fabrications: Les Paul and the "Les
Paulverizer"
* Notes
* Bibliography