Street Sound at the Edge of Perception

The Aural Minutiae of Sand and other Worldly Murmurings
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-981-13-1613-5
Verlag: Springer Singapore
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 138 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Sound

This book is about the tiny sounds of the world, and listening to them, the minute signals that are clues to who and where we are. A very small sound, given the context of its history, becomes hugely significant, and even an imagined sound in a picture becomes almost a voice. By speaking a name, we give a person back to the world, and a breath, a sigh, a laugh or a cry need no language. A phoneme is the start of all stories, and were we able to tune ourselves to the subtleties of the natural world, we might share the super-sensitivity of members of the bird and animal kingdom to sense the message in the apparent silence. Mind hears sound when it perceives an image; the book will appeal to sonic and radio practitioners, students of sound, those working in the visual arts, and creative writers.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Street, Seán

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction: The Bell of Józef Czechowicz ¬– The Importance of Minute Sound Moments.- 2 The Notes of Human Music.- 3 Making the Moment Singable.- 4 Signals from Near and Far Shores – Voices from the Natural World.- 5 Speak My Name – the Ownership of Syllables.- 6 First and Last Sounds – Messages Beyond Language.

Über Autor(innen)

Seán Street is Emeritus Professor of Radio at Bournemouth University, UK. Previous books include The Poetry of Radio , The Memory of Sound and Sound Poetics . As a poet, he has published nine collections, the most recent being Camera Obscura , and has edited an anthology of poems about radio, entitled Radio Waves .