Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art (Voegelin Salome)(Paperback)

Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art (Voegelin Salome)(Paperback)

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, Salom Voegelin immerses the reader in concepts of listening to sound artwork and the everyday acoustic

Colloquium: Sound Art and Music (Gardner Thomas)(Paperback)

In 2012, Thomas Gardner and Salome Voegelin hosted a colloquium, entitled 'Music - Sound Art: Historical Continuum and Mimetic Fissures,' at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. This colloquium dealt with the current fervent debate concerning the relationship between

The Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening (Voegelin Salom)(Paperback)

The essay is the perfect format for a crisis. Its porous and contingent nature forgives a lack of formality, while its neglect of perfection and virtuosity releases the potential for the incomplete and the unrealizable. These seven essays on The Political Possibility of Sound present a perfectly

Noise - A Human History of Sound and Listening (Hendy David)(Paperback / softback)

Prehistoric drummers used natural acoustics to recreate natural sound. In classical Europe, orators turned the human voice into a lyrical instrument. In Buddhist temples, the icons' ears were exaggerated to represent their spiritual power. This book explores the role of sound, noise and listening

Background Noise, Second Edition: Perspectives on Sound Art (LaBelle Brandon)(Paperback)

Background Noise follows the development of sound as an artistic medium and illustrates how sound is put to use within modes of composition, installation, and performance. While chronological in its structure, Brandon LaBelle's book is informed by spatial thinking - weaving architecture,

Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice (Oliveros Pauline)(Paperback)

Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice offers an exciting guide to ways of listening and sounding. This book provides unique insights and perspectives for artists, students, teachers, mediators and anyone interested in how consciousness may be effected by profound attention to the sonic

Keywords in Sound (Novak David)(Paperback)

In twenty essays on subjects such as noise, acoustics, music, and silence, Keywords in Sound presents a definitive resource for sound studies, and a compelling argument for why studying sound matters. Each contributor details their keyword's intellectual history, outlines its role in cultural,

Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance (LaBelle Brandon)(Paperback)

A timely exploration of whether sound and listening can be the basis of political change.In a world dominated by the visual, could contemporary resistances be auditory? This timely and important book from Goldsmiths Press highlights sound's invisible, disruptive, and affective qualities and asks

Science, Politics and Gnosticism: Two Essays (Voegelin Eric)(Paperback)

Eric Voegelin, one of today's leading political theorists and author of the contemporary classic The New Science of Politics, here contends that certain modern movements, including Positivism, Hegelianism, Marxism and the 'God is Dead' movement, are variants of the Gnostic tradition of antiquity

Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice (Eidsheim Nina Sun)(Paperback)

In Sensing Sound 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

Silence - In the Age of Noise (Kagge Erling)(Paperback / softback)

Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies (Robinson Dylan)(Paperback)

Reimagining how we understand and write about the Indigenous listening experience? Hungry Listening is the first book to consider listening from both Indigenous and settler colonial perspectives. A critical response to what has been called the 'whiteness of sound studies,' Dylan Robinson evaluates

A Strange and Beautiful Sound (Zep)(Pevná vazba)

Where is life's value? In the noise and fury, or in the silence and contemplation? In the struggles or in the peace? William chose silence 25 years ago when he joined the Carthusian religious order. But when an inheritance requires his presence in Paris he returns to a new world, full of questions

Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound (Rodgers Tara)(Paperback)

Pink Noises brings together twenty-four interviews with women in electronic music and sound cultures, including club and radio DJs, remixers, composers, improvisers, instrument builders, and installation and performance artists. The collection is an extension of Pinknoises.com, the

Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts (Kahn Douglas)(Paperback)

An examination of the role of sound in twentieth-century arts.This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it--to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence,

Art of Silence (Hatch Amber)(Paperback / softback)

Discover the art of silence with this accessible, attractively packaged introduction to the power of

Sonic Flux: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics (Cox Christoph)(Paperback)

From Edison's invention of the phonograph through contemporary field recording and sound installation, artists have become attracted to those domains against which music has always defined itself: noise, silence, and environmental sound. Christoph Cox argues that these developments in the sonic

Dump Philosophy: A Phenomenology of Devastation (Marder Michael)(Paperback)

Ranging across philosophy, theology, ecology, psychology, and art, in Dump Philosophy Michael Marder argues that the earth, along with everything that lives and thinks on it, is at an advanced stage of being converted into a dump for industrial output and its by-products feeding consumerism and its

Heart of Darkness: And Youth (Conrad Joseph)(Paperback)

The silence of the jungle is broken only by the ominous sound of drumming. Life on the river is brutal and unknown threats lurk in the darkness. Marlow's mission to captain a steamer upriver into the dense interior leads him into conflict with those who inhabit the forest. But his decision to hunt

Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction (Carroll Nol)(Paperback)

Philosophy of Art is a textbook for undergraduate students interested in the topic of philosophical aesthetics.It introduces the techniques of analytic philosophy as well as key topics such as the representational theory of art, formalism, neo-formalism, aesthetic theories of art,

Life and Action: Elementary Structures of Practice and Practical Thought (Thompson Michael)(Paperback)

Any sound practical philosophy must be clear on practical concepts--concepts, in particular, of life, action, and practice. This clarity is Michael Thompson's aim in his ambitious work. In Thompson's view, failure to comprehend the structures of thought and judgment expressed in these concepts has

Peppa Pig: Peppa's Super Noisy Sound Book (Peppa Pig)(Pevná vazba)

Peppa's Super Noisy Sound Book is a fun, interactive sound book, for fans of Peppa Pig! SNORT! Find out what happens when Peppa and George's very quiet day turns very noisy indeed! With 18 sound buttons to press as you read the story, this is a super noisy gift for every Peppa fan! Based on the

The Sacred Art of Listening: Forty Reflections for Cultivating a Spiritual Practice (Lindahl Kay)(Paperback)

Hearing and listening are two different things. Learning to listen--really listen--requires sacred practice.The Sacred Art of Listening guides you through forty practices of deep listening--to our Source, to ourselves, and to each other.Inspiring text and contemplative artwork combine to

On Art, Religion, and the History of Philosophy - Introductory Lectures (Hegel G. W. F.)(Paperback / softback)