Sound
An Acoulogical Treatise
1st Edition
Published on 17. December 2015
320 pages
978-0-8223-7482-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
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
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
