Sounding Bodies Sounding Worlds An Exploration of Embodiments in Sound

What makes a body of sound appear as an aesthetic object as well as a method for knowledge? InSounding Bodies Sounding Worlds, Mickey Vallee argues that we must impose our sonic imagination onto the non-sonic, and embrace how we sound to ourselves, sound with our animal companions, and sound in very...

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Main Author: Vallee, Mickey
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 2020, 2020
Edition:1st ed. 2020
Series:Palgrave Studies in Sound
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:What makes a body of sound appear as an aesthetic object as well as a method for knowledge? InSounding Bodies Sounding Worlds, Mickey Vallee argues that we must impose our sonic imagination onto the non-sonic, and embrace how we sound to ourselves, sound with our animal companions, and sound in very earth itself. From the invention of the laryngoscope to the role of the spectrogram, from the call of the bird to the tumble of a rockslide, from the deep listening of environmental immersion to the computational listening of bioacoustics research, Vallee offers a wide range of cases to convincingly argue that all life shares in a continuous, embodied and ethical vibration
Physical Description:XI, 220 p. 1 illus online resource
ISBN:9789813293274