Salomé Voegelin

Listening to Noise and Silence (eBook, PDF)

Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Listening to Noise and Silence engages with the emerging practice of sound art and the concurrent development of a discourse and theory of sound. In this original and challenging work, Salomé Voegelin immerses the reader in concepts of listening to sound artwork and the everyday acoustic environment, establishing an aesthetics and philosophy of sound and promoting the notion of a sonic sensibility.

A multitude of sound works are discussed, by lesser known contemporary artists and composers (for example Curgenven, Gasson and Federer), historical figures in the field (Artaud, Feldman and Cage), and that of contemporary canonic artists such as Janet Cardiff, Bill Fontana, Bernard Parmegiani, and Merzbow.

Informed by the ideas of Adorno, Merleau-Ponty and others, the book aims to come to a critique of sound art from its soundings rather than in relation to abstracted themes and pre-existing categories. Listening to Noise and Silence broadens the discussion surrounding sound art and opens up the field for others to follow.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441135322
• Artikelnr.: 38303669

Autorenporträt

Salomé Voegelin is Professor of Sound at the London College of Communication, UAL, and an artist and writer engaged in listening as a socio-political practice of sound. She is the author of Listening to Noise and Silence (2010), Sonic Possible Worlds (2014) and The Political Possibility of Sound (2018), all by Bloomsbury Academic. Her work and writing deal with sound and the world sound makes: its aesthetic, social and political realities that are hidden by the persuasiveness of a visual point of view.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction Part one Listening Being Honeyed To Listen
Dynamic Things and Places Critique of a Remote Critic Listening to the
Soundscape Recorded Listening to the Radio Conclusion: Sonic Solitude Part
two Noise Bad Taste Noisy Non-Sense How can you hear it when you do not
know what you are listening for? - Noise and Modernism Noise and
Postmodernism Sonic Noise Conclusion: Noisy Voices Part three Silence
Conceptual Silence When there is nothing to hear you start hearing things
The silent "I"/ Sonic Subjectivity Crickets Silent Duration Symbolic,
Semiotic and Social Sound Moments of Coincidence Radiophonic Silence
Conclusion: Silence as Context of Auditory Aesthetics Part four Time and
Space Sitting in Rooms Resonating Places; Sounding Time Geography of
Timespace Inhabiting a Playfull Agonism Building Sonic Bridges and Towns A
Sonic Sensibility for New Media Art Narrating temporal places/ migration
The Timespace of Radio Conclusion: Into the Now of Listening Part five Now
Sonic Pasts: an Afterthought Perception and Sensation Sound as 'Pathetic
Trigger' The Duration of Perception The Refrain of Now Bibliography List of
Works Notes Index