Sonic mediations : body, sound, technology / Body, sound, technology edited by Carolyn Birdsall and Anthony Enns. - viii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Mediating Perception -- The Phonographic Body: Phreno-Mesmerism, Brain Mapping and -- Embodied Recording / Audio Virology: On the Sonic Mnemonics of Preemptive Power / “Quick and Dirty”: Sonic Mediations and Affect / Touched by Music: The Sonic Strokes of Sur Incises / Mediating Performance -- Delegating the Live: Musicians, Machines and the Practice of Looping / “Oh Baby, I Like It Raw”: Engineering Truth / Voice or Ear? The Female Voice and the Listener’s Position in Paul Lansky’s as it grew dark / The Pianist’s Body at Work: Mediating Sound and Meaning in Frederic Rzewski’s Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues / Mediating Space -- Producing Microscopic Embodied Spaces: The Flautist’s Mouth, Reverberation Effects and Kaija Saariaho’s Lichtbogen / Atmospherics / Another Interactivity in Pneumatic Sound Field: On Interactive Sound Art and Digital Audio Technology / Hearing History: Storytelling and Collective Subjectivity in Cardiff and Miller’s Pandemonium / Mediating Audiovision -- Towards Intensive Audiovisual Encounters: Interactions of Opera and Cinema / Do You Want to Be Absorbed? The Knotty Acts of Mediation in Rosa: A Horse Drama / Auditory Imagination and Narrativisation in Béla Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle / Sound Bites! Dissonant Audiovisions as Historiophony in Hitler’s Hi Parade / Carolyn Birdsall and Anthony Enns -- Anthony Enns -- Steve Goodman -- Bruce Johnson -- Vincent Meelberg -- Jeremy Wade Morris -- Jan Hein Hoogstad -- Hannah Bosma -- Kathryn Woodard -- Taina Riikonen -- Steven Connor -- Ruth Benschop -- Adair Rounthwaite -- Milla Tiainen -- Tereza Havelkova -- Pieter Verstraete -- Carolyn Birdsall. Part I. Part II. Part III. Part IV.

1847188397 9781847188397 1847184839 9781847184832

2008278427


Sound--Psychological aspects
Music and technology
Sound in art
Auditory perception.

BF353.5.N65 / S66 2008

700.904