Sound Works - A Cultural Theory of Sound Design

What is sound design? What is its function in the early 21st century and into the future? Sound Works examines these questions in four parts: Part 1, "Why This Sound?", presents an overview of the modern history of sound design. Part 2 is highly visual and provides a glance onto a sound designer''s workbench and the current state of "Sonic Labor." Part 3 uses cultural analysis to explore our contemporary "Living with Sounds." The final and fourth part then proposes a series of anthropological and political interpretations of how "Sound Works" today. This book is not a manual on sound design; it instead argues for a cultural theory of sound design for sound designers and sound artists, for clients who commission a sound design and for researchers in the fields of sound studies, design research, and cultural studies>

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• Authors: Julia Krause, Carla J. Maier, Holger Schulze, Holger (Humbolt University Schulze, Holger (University of Copenhagen Schulze, Schulze Holger
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781501330223
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-3022-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Guides; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Hardware; MUSIC / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Acoustics & Sound, Acoustic & sound engineering, COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / Audio, Acoustic and sound engineering