Sound at the Edge of Perception
The Aural Minutiae of Sand and other Worldly Murmurings
1st Edition
Published on 16. July 2018
XIII, 138 pages
978-981-13-1613-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Sound at the Edge of Perception explores the 'interrelationships between hearing and listening, looking and seeing,' with the hope that 'by awakening the faculty of seeing, we may enhance our ability to listen-and vice versa.'" (Ben Monks, Dymock Poets and Friends, Issue 18, 2019)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Publishing group
Springer Singapore
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XIII, 138 p.
File size
1,40 MB
ISBN-13
978-981-13-1613-5 (9789811316135)
DOI
10.1007/978-981-13-1613-5
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
07/2018
Springer
€58.84
Shipment within 15-20 days
Person
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
.
Content
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.
