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Sonic Mediations: Body, Sound, Technology
Editor: Carolyn Birdsall and Anthony Enns
Date Of Publication: Oct 2008
Isbn13: 9781847188397
Isbn: 1-84718-839-7
Sonic Mediations: Body, Sound, Technology is a collection of original essays that represents an invaluable contribution to the burgeoning field of sound studies. While sound is often posited as having a bridging function, as a passive in-between, this volume invites readers to rethink the concept of mediation by examining the relationships between the body, sound and technology. The chapters provide a series of focused case studies involving sound and music technologies, performances and installations, which address key issues for sound scholars: How are audio performances mediated by sound technologies as well as the performer’s body? In which ways is the immediacy of live performance influenced by sound technologies? How do bodies and technologies mediate the experience of auditory perception? What is the role of the listener in audio-based performances? How does sound mediate the experience of viewing optical media and how does this complicate vision-oriented theories of spectatorship? By incorporating a range of interdisciplinary responses to these questions, Sonic Mediations provides a model for the future of sound studies.
Carolyn Birdsall is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam. Her dissertation focuses on sound technologies and related cultural practices during Weimar and Nazi Germany. Her work has appeared in such publications as Hearing Places (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007) and Sonic Interventions (Rodopi, 2007).
Anthony Enns is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Culture in the Department of English at Dalhousie University. His work on sound technologies and auditory perception has appeared in The Senses & Society, Culture, Theory & Critique and the anthology Hörstürze: Akustik und Gewalt im 20. Jahrhundert (Königshausen & Neumann, 2005).
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