{"product_id":"low-end-theory-bass-bodies-and-the-materiality-of-sonic-experience-9781501335914","title":"Low End Theory Bass Bodies and the Materiality of Sonic Experience","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul C. Jasen\u003c\/b\u003e is a Lecturer in Music and Communication Studies at Carleton University, Canada.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere's much here that gives a compelling and productive slant on one of the most contested areas of contemporary audio culture. * The Wire *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLow End Theory\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating study ... An interesting and thoughtful addition to the greater discussion of sound materiality, and will serve as excellent graduate level reading for ethnomusicologists, folklorists and anthropologists alike. * Dancecult *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLow End Theory\u003c\/i\u003e is an extremely broad-ranging book that refreshingly challenges the divisions between the humanities and sciences in terms of our understanding of sound, stretching this understanding from a wide-ranging interdisciplinary base. The core chapters represent a tour de force analysis of sound, body and experience that is both exhilarating and challenging. The reader will feel that they are racing through a stimulating sonic haze picking up wonderful nuggets of sonic knowledge on the way. * Michael Bull, Professor of Sound Studies, University of Sussex, UK *\u003cbr\u003eA pioneering study of the murky world of bass that enlists speculative concepts to reveal the vibrational practices at work in ritual, science and in the underbelly of pop. \u003ci\u003eLow End Theory\u003c\/i\u003e contributes to a growing literature which recognises, tracks and encourages the perpetual reconstruction the sonic body. * Steve Goodman, Independent Scholar, UK, author of Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect and the Ecology of Fear (2010) and Founder of record label Hyperdub *\u003cbr\u003eWe live in a world of vibrations. Sound envelops us, moves us, caresses or assaults us—especially in the lower frequencies that we cannot hear directly. In \u003ci\u003eLow End Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, Paul Jasen provides us with an ontology of bass. He works through the many ways—natural, social, and technological—that subsonic frequencies haunt us, affect us, and change us. * Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University, USA *\u003cbr\u003e“…a rewarding read…By now widely travelled and well-thumbed, my copy of \u003ci\u003eLow End Theory\u003c\/i\u003e obviously affected me more than many other books I have recently read… * Oliver Seibt, Musicae Scientiae *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments   Introduction: Elements of a Myth-Science   1. The Sonic Body: An Ethico-Acoustic Toolkit      Sonorous Relations      Tales and Strategies      Myth-Science in the Vibratory Milieu  2. Spectral Catalysis: Disquieting Encounters      Spectres of the Manmade Unknown      Infrasound      Unhomed      Boo! (toward an operative reality)      The Hum           ‘And it was only by analogy that it could be called a sound at all...’           Blinkered Science      We still do not know what a sonic body can do...  3. Numinous Strategies      Learning to Play the Sonic Body           The Nervous Piano      Numinous Instruments      Religious Audiogenesis           Numinous Sound Design           Playing the Resonances           Tellurian Organs      The Organ-Church Assemblage           The Arcanum: An Ambulant Myth-Science           The Nervous Organ           Baroque Affect Engineering           The Gothic Assemblage: Applied Synaesthetics  4. Tone Scientists I: Vibratory Arts      Cymatic Arts           Documentary Practices           A Speculative Turn      Perceptual Abstraction           Transversal Strategies      Incipient Dance           Sonic Architectures           Dance With the Speaker           ‘A people of oscillators’  5. Tone Scientists II: Bass Cults      The Lab      The Science      Bass Science           Dubplates and Mastering      Engineering the Vibratorium           Affects and Affectations      Entering the Rhythmachine      Three Physio-Logics           Jungle (1994)           Dubstep (2005)           Footwork (2009)  Conclusion: Where next?  Endnotes  Bibliography  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084974879063,"sku":"9781501335914","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501335914.jpg?v=1762207787","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/low-end-theory-bass-bodies-and-the-materiality-of-sonic-experience-9781501335914","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}