<DIV>In <I>Sensing Sound</I> Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions how we think about sound, music, and listening. Eidsheim shows how sound, music, and listening are dynamic and contextually dependent, rather than being fixed, knowable, and constant. She uses twenty-first-century operas by Juliana Snapper, Meredith Monk, Christopher Cerrone, and Alba Triana as case studies to challenge common assumptions about sound—such as air being the default medium through which it travels—and to demonstrate the importance a performance''s location and reception play in its contingency. By theorizing the voice as an object of knowledge and rejecting the notion of an a priori definition of sound, Eidsheim releases the voice from a constraining set of fixed concepts and meanings. In Eidsheim''s theory, music consists of aural, tactile, spatial, physical, material, and vibrational sensations. This expanded definition of music as manifested throu
Pris: kr 349.00 fra Norli
Butikk | Pris | |
---|---|---|
kr 349.00 | Besøk butikk |
<DIV>In <I>The Race of Sound</I> Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the voice and its qualities, are socially produced. Eidsheim illustrates how listeners measure race through...
kr 337.00
Mer informasjon
Through a genealogy of photosensitive elements in media devices and artworks, this book investigates three dichotomies that impoverish debates and proposals in media art: material/immaterial, organic/machinic, and theory/practice. It combines historical...
kr 589.00
Mer informasjon
<b>How sound leaves a fundamental imprint on who we are.</b><br><br>Making sense of sound is one of the hardest jobs we ask our brains to do. In <i>Of Sound Mind</i>, Nina Kraus examines the partnership of sound and...
kr 265.00
Mer informasjon