Description
Book SynopsisThe contributors to this ambitious and wide-ranging collection explore sound as an object, sound studies as a discipline, and the limits of sonic objectivity.
Trade Review"The carefully curated sequence of essays and chapters makes a significant contribution to the field of sound studies." -- Aurelio Cianciotta * Neural *
"Like the field of sound studies, the essays collected here are disciplinarily difficult to define or contain.… The text may well contribute to the creation of an audience through the challenges it presents. This volume moves the discussion of sound forward by recognizing its aesthetic and ideological richness as well as its ontological instability. As a whole,
Sound Objects demonstrates the potential for engagement with sound to reverberate more deeply across artistic, aesthetic, and scholarly landscapes, as well as the promise of richness that comes from examining our basic assumptions." -- Maribeth Clark * Notes *
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Sound Objects provides readers with a deepened exploration of the sonic field while maintaining cross-disciplinary conversations to help sound studies further congeal as an integrated field. . . . The collection will also resonate with a wide readership through the range of represented experiences of sound with which readers will identify." -- Kate Galloway * MUSICultures *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Sound Objects: An Introduction / James A. Steintrager, with Rey Chow 1
I. Genealogies
1. Reflections on the Sound Object and Reduced Listening / Michel Chion 23
2. Pierre Schaeffer and the (Recorded) Sound Source / John Dack 33
3. The Fluctuating Sound Object / Brian Kane 53
II. Aural Reification, Sonic Commodification
4. Listening with Adorno, Again: Nonobjective Objectivity and the Possibility of Critique / James A. Steintrager 73
5. Spectral Objects: On the Fetish Character of Music Technologies / Jonathan Sterne 94
III. Acousmatic Complications
6. Listening after "Acousmaticity": Notes on a Transdisciplinary Problematic / Rey Chow 113
7. The Skin of the Voice: Acousmatic Illusions, Ventriloquial Listening / Pooja Rangan 130
IV. Sound Abjects and Nonhuman Relations
8. The Acoustic Abject: Sound and the Legal Imagination / Veit Erlmann 151
9. The Alluring Objecthood of the Heartbeat / Jairo Moreno and Gavin Steingo 167
10. On Nonhuman Sound—Sound as Relation / Georgina Born 185
V. Memory Traces
11. The Sound of Arche-Cinema / John Mowitt 211
12. Listening to the Sirens / Michael Bull 228
13. Entities Inertias Faint Beings: Drawing as Sounding / David Toop 246
Bibliography 265
Contributors 281
Index 285
