Sound Objects
1st Edition
Published on 6. December 2018
312 pages
978-1-4780-0253-6 (ISBN)
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The contributors to this ambitious and wide-ranging collection explore sound as an object, sound studies as a discipline, and the limits of sonic objectivity.
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James A. Steintrager | Rey Chow
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Sound Objects
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Duke University Press
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James A. Steintrager is Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and European Languages and Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
Rey Chow is Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature at Duke University.
Rey Chow is Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature at Duke University.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Sound Objects: An Introduction / James A. Steintrager, with Rey Chow 1
I. Genealogies
1. Reflections on the Sound Object and Reduced Listening / Michel Chion 23
2. Pierre Schaeffer and the (Recorded) Sound Source / John Dack 33
3. The Fluctuating Sound Object / Brian Kane 53
II. Aural Reification, Sonic Commodification
4. Listening with Adorno, Again: Nonobjective Objectivity and the Possibility of Critique / James A. Steintrager 73
5. Spectral Objects: On the Fetish Character of Music Technologies / Jonathan Sterne 94
III. Acousmatic Complications
6. Listening after "Acousmaticity": Notes on a Transdisciplinary Problematic / Rey Chow 113
7. The Skin of the Voice: Acousmatic Illusions, Ventriloquial Listening / Pooja Rangan 130
IV. Sound Abjects and Nonhuman Relations
8. The Acoustic Abject: Sound and the Legal Imagination / Veit Erlmann 151
9. The Alluring Objecthood of the Heartbeat / Jairo Moreno and Gavin Steingo 167
10. On Nonhuman Sound-Sound as Relation / Georgina Born 185
V. Memory Traces
11. The Sound of Arche-Cinema / John Mowitt 211
12. Listening to the Sirens / Michael Bull 228
13. Entities Inertias Faint Beings: Drawing as Sounding / David Toop 246
Bibliography 265
Contributors 281
Index 285
Sound Objects: An Introduction / James A. Steintrager, with Rey Chow 1
I. Genealogies
1. Reflections on the Sound Object and Reduced Listening / Michel Chion 23
2. Pierre Schaeffer and the (Recorded) Sound Source / John Dack 33
3. The Fluctuating Sound Object / Brian Kane 53
II. Aural Reification, Sonic Commodification
4. Listening with Adorno, Again: Nonobjective Objectivity and the Possibility of Critique / James A. Steintrager 73
5. Spectral Objects: On the Fetish Character of Music Technologies / Jonathan Sterne 94
III. Acousmatic Complications
6. Listening after "Acousmaticity": Notes on a Transdisciplinary Problematic / Rey Chow 113
7. The Skin of the Voice: Acousmatic Illusions, Ventriloquial Listening / Pooja Rangan 130
IV. Sound Abjects and Nonhuman Relations
8. The Acoustic Abject: Sound and the Legal Imagination / Veit Erlmann 151
9. The Alluring Objecthood of the Heartbeat / Jairo Moreno and Gavin Steingo 167
10. On Nonhuman Sound-Sound as Relation / Georgina Born 185
V. Memory Traces
11. The Sound of Arche-Cinema / John Mowitt 211
12. Listening to the Sirens / Michael Bull 228
13. Entities Inertias Faint Beings: Drawing as Sounding / David Toop 246
Bibliography 265
Contributors 281
Index 285
