Sound Unseen
Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 6 October 2016
- ISBN 9780190632212
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 231x155x20 mm
- Weight 476 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
Sound coming from outside the field of vision, from somewhere beyond, holds a privileged place in the Western imagination. When separated from their source, sounds seem to manifest transcendent realms, divine powers, or supernatural forces. According to legend, the philosopher Pythagoras lectured to his disciples from behind a veil, and two thousand years later, in the age of absolute music, listeners were similarly fascinated with disembodied sounds, employing various techniques to isolate sounds from their sources. With recording and radio came spatial and temporal separation of sounds from sources, and new ways of composing music.
Sound Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice explores the phenomenon of acousmatic sound. An unusual and neglected word, "acousmatic" was first introduced into modern parlance in the mid-1960s by avant garde composer of musique concr?te Pierre Schaeffer to describe the experience of hearing a sound without seeing its cause. Working through, and often against, Schaeffer's ideas, Brian Kane 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. Kane investigates acousmatic sound from a number of methodological perspectives -- historical, cultural, philosophical and musical -- and provides a framework that makes sense of the many surprising and paradoxical ways that unseen sound has been understood. Finely detailed and thoroughly researched, Sound Unseen pursues unseen sounds through a stunning array of cases -- from Bayreuth to Kafka's "Burrow," Apollinaire to Zizek, music and metaphysics to architecture and automata, and from Pythagoras to the present-to offer the definitive account of acousmatic sound in theory and practice.
The first major study in English of Pierre Schaeffer's theory of "acousmatics," Sound Unseen is an essential text for scholars of philosophy of music, electronic music, sound studies, and the history of the senses.
Much in this substantive book will resonate with the reader after the concluding page is turned. Recommended.
Table of Contents:
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 techn?
INTERLUDE. Must musique concr?te 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"
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