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Listen: A History of Our Ears Peter Szendy In this intimate meditation on listening, Peter Szendy examines what the role of the listener is, and has been, through the centuries. The role of the composer is clear, as is the…
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Sonic Somatic: Performances of the Unsound Body (Audio Issues) Christof Migone In Sonic Somatic, the sound artist and theorist Christof Migone looks at sound art’s overlap with other disciplines through its particular uses of articulation. Articulation is explored here in…
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Hearing Film: Tracking Identifications in Contemporary Hollywood Film Music Anahid Kassabian Music is central to any film, creating a tone for the movie that is just as vital as the visual and narrative components. In recent years, racial and gender…
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Breathless: Sound Recording, Disembodiment, and the Transformation of Lyrical Nostalgia Allen S. Weiss Breathless explores early sound recording and the literature that both foreshadowed its invention and was contemporaneous with its early years, revealing the broad influence of this new…
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Experimental Sound and Radio Allen S. Weiss Art making and criticism have focused mainly on the visual media. This book, which originally appeared as a special issue of TDR/The Drama Review, explores the myriad aesthetic, cultural, and experimental possibilities of…
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Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond Hillel Schwartz When did the “silent deeps” become cacophonous and galaxies begin to swim in a sea of cosmic noise? Why do we think that noises have colors and that…