philosophy
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art explores and delineates what Sound Art is in the 21st century. Sound artworks today embody the contemporary and transcultural trends towards the post-apocalyptic, a wide sensorial spectrum of sonic imaginaries as well as the…
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Future Sounds: The Temporality of Noise Stephen Kennedy What can the sounds of today tell us about the future? Can an analysis of sound and sonic practices allow us to make reliable predictions in relation to wider social phenomena? And…
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Amplifications: Poetic Migration, Auditory Memory Paul Carter Written by one of the most prominent thinkers in sound studies, Amplifications *presents a perspective on sound narrated through the experiences of a sound artist and writer. A work of reflective philosophy, *Amplifications…
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Low End Theory Paul C. Jasen Low End Theory probes the much-mythologized field of bass and low-frequency sound. It begins in music but quickly moves far beyond, following vibratory phenomena across time, disciplines and disparate cultural spheres (including hauntings, laboratories,…
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An Epistemology of Noise Cecile Malaspina What do we understand ‘noise’ to be? The term ‘noise’ no longer suggests only aesthetic judgement, as in acoustic or visual noise, and is now relevant to domains as varied as communication theory, physics…
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Inflamed Invisible: Collected Writings on Art and Sound, 1976-2018 (Goldsmiths Press / Sonics Series (2)) David Toop **A rich collection of essays tracing the relationship between art and sound. **** In the 1970s David Toop became preoccupied with the possibility…