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OverviewListening 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dr Salomé Voegelin (Professor, London College of Communication, UK)Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation Imprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.396kg ISBN: 9781441162076ISBN 10: 1441162070 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 18 July 2010 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Language: English Table of Contents"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"ReviewsThe book's arguments are complex and developed with rigour, making a perceptive contribution to an emerging debate. In its favour, the work consistently forces the listener off-track to think critically about just what it is that makes listening so powerful and so elusive. <br>-Will Montgomery, The Wire, August 2010 The examples under discussion range from by-now canonical soundworks...to recent works by a clutch of lesser known artists...Voegelin's critical style is so singular that she avoids cliche in the treatment of all these artists, prising them out of a conversation about music and into a challenging treatise on the art of listening. - The Wire The book's arguments are complex and developed with rigour, making a perceptive contribution to an emerging debate. In its favour, the work consistently forces the listener off-track to think critically about just what it is that makes listening so powerful and so elusive. - Will Montgomery, The Wire, August 2010 Reviewed in the London Review of Books 23 September (UK) - London Review of Books Listening to Noise and Silence will be of interest to a great many people following breakthrough trends within art and philosophy. - Art Monthly Salome Voegelin has written an excellent book about sound art, escaping clich and easy categorizations. She establishes a proper aesthetics and philosophy of sound, with a compelling phenomenological account of noise and silence. - Neural In Voegelin's evocative image, noise holds the listener hostage to his or her own listening... Listening to Noise and Silence contains many moments that sound artists and others will find insightful. - Avant Music News There cannot be a concluding remark to encompass Listening to Noise and Silence. You might not even completely 'understand' it if you refuse to 'feel' it and 'know' it or if you aim at making ends meet evenly. It will question you, it will confuse you, it will exhilarate you. It will prompt you to reinvent it over and over: in listening, in writing. - Journal of Sonic Studies Author InformationSalomé Voegelin is Professor of Sound at the London College of Communication, UAL. An artist and writer, she is also the author of Sonic Possible Worlds: Hearing the Continuum of Sound (Bloomsbury, 2014) and The Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening (Bloomsbury, 2018). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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