studies
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The Listening Reader Sam Belinfante and Joseph Kohlmaier The Listening Reader brings together a number of essays that explore the role of sound and listening in the context of contemporary art. They engage with the specific timbre that the act…
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The Order of Sounds: A Sonorous Archipelago Francois J. Bonnet The subtlety, complexity, and variety of modes of hearing has meant that it has rarely received the same philosophical attention as the visual. Francois J. Bonnet makes a compelling case…
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Environmental Sound Artists: In Their Own Words Frederick Bianchi and V.J Manzo (Editors) Environmental Sound Artists: In Their Own Words is an incisive and imaginative look at the international environmental sound art movement, which emerged in the late 1960s. The…
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The Sound of Shakespeare (Accents on Shakespeare) Wes Folkerth The ‘Sound of Shakespeare’ reveals the surprising extent to which Shakespeare’s art is informed by the various attitudes, beliefs, practices and discourses that pertained to sound and hearing in his culture.…
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Sonic Virtuality: Sound as Emergent Perception Mark Grimshaw & Tom Garner In Sonic Virtuality: Sound as Emergent Perception, authors Mark Grimshaw and Tom Garner introduce a novel theory that positions sound within a framework of virtuality. Arguing against the acoustic…
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The Auditory Culture Reader (Sensory Formations) Michael Bull & Les Back The first edition of *The Auditory Culture Reader *offered an introduction to both classical and recent work on auditory culture, laying the foundations for new academic research in sound…