Chion Sound

An Acoulogical Treatise
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7482-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion's Sound addresses the philosophical questions that inform our encounters with sound, stimulating our thinking about being open to new sounds and to explore the links between language, technology, culture, and hearing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chion, Michel

Weitere Mitwirkende

Steintrager, James A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikalische Akustik, Tontechnik, Musikaufnahme
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Closed Grooves, Open Ears / James A. Steintrager vii

Preface to the French Edition of 2010 xxvii

I. Hearing

1. Listening Awakes 3

2. The Ear 16

3. Sound and Time 29

II. A Divided World

4. Voice, Language, and Sounds 45

5. Noise and Music: A Legitimate Distinction? 55

III. The Wheel of Causes

6. The Sound That You Cause: Ergo-Audition 83

7. Sounds and Its Cause: Casual Listening and Figurative Listening 101

8. Sound and What It Causes: Real and Supposed Effects 121

IV. Sound Transformed

9. How Technology Has Changed Sound 131

10. The Audiovisual Couple in Film: Audio-Vision 150

V. Listening, Expressing

11. Object and Non-Object: Two Poles 169

12. Between Doing and Listening: Naming 212

Notes 243

Glossary 265

Bibliography 269

Index 275

Über Autor(innen)

Michel Chion is a composer, filmmaker, teacher, researcher, and the author of several books, including Film, A Sound Art; The Voice in Cinema; and Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen.

James A. Steintrager is Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and European Languages and Studies at the University of California, Irvine; he is the author, most recently, of The Autonomy of Pleasure: Libertines, License, and Sexual Revolution.