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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Salomé Voegelin is Professor of Sound at the London College of Communication, UAL, UK and an artist and writer engaged in listening as a socio-political practice of sound. She is the author of Listening to Noise and Silence (2010), Sonic Possible Worlds (2014) and The Political Possibility of Sound (2018), all by Bloomsbury Academic. Her work and writing deal with sound and the world sound makes: its aesthetic, social and political realities that are hidden by the persuasiveness of a visual point of view. Klappentext Listening 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. Vorwort A fresh, bold study of the emerging field of Sound Art, informed by the ideas of Adorno, Merleau-Ponty and others. Zusammenfassung A study of the field of Sound Art, informed by the ideas of Adorno, Merleau Ponty and others. It engages with the practice of sound art and the concurrent development of a discourse and theory of sound. It establishes an aesthetics and philosophy of sound and promotes the notion of a sonic sensibility. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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<...
