Sound at the Edge of Perception The Aural Minutiae of Sand and other Worldly Murmurings

This book is about the tiny sounds of the world, and listening to them, the minute signals that are clues to who and where we are. A very small sound, given the context of its history, becomes hugely significant, and even an imagined sound in a picture becomes almost a voice. By speaking a name, we...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Street, Seán
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Palgrave Pivot 2019, 2019
Edition:1st ed. 2019
Series:Palgrave Studies in Sound
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction: The Bell of Józef Czechowicz ¬– The Importance of Minute Sound Moments
  • 2 The Notes of Human Music
  • 3 Making the Moment Singable
  • 4 Signals from Near and Far Shores – Voices from the Natural World
  • 5 Speak My Name – the Ownership of Syllables
  • 6 First and Last Sounds – Messages Beyond Language