Geosonics: Listening Through Earth's Soundscapes
Autor Joshua Dittrichen Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 sep 2024
Working across sound studies, media theory, and environmental media studies, Joshua Dittrich explores the material and metaphorical geology of the sonic environment. In an epoch of climate crisis, environment is no longer a neutral background, site, or simple "surrounding": environment is immanently implicated in the chains of mediation that make up the material and imaginative infrastructure of our lives. The analytical task of Geosonics is to tune into that infrastructure through sound. Drawing on influential work in sound studies around the concept of transduction, this book explores how listening does not take place in a pre-existing soundscape, but rather makes place by etching out a mediated, mutually constitutive set of relations between listeners, media, and environments.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9798765104576
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 160 x 232 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 160 x 232 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Introduction
1. From Geosonics to Geosonicks
2. The Sound Beneath Our Feet: Earthquakes and Ear Quakes
3. A Planet Made of Beethoven: Audio-Stretching, Transductive Listening and 24/7 Aesthetics
4. Now You See It. : Hearing Colors and Picturing Soundscapes
5. Sound Asleep: Sleeping, Listening, and the Politics of Nonconscious Experience
6. Listening from Outer Space: Sun Ra's Reverberant Geology
Afterword
Bibliography
Notes
Index
1. From Geosonics to Geosonicks
2. The Sound Beneath Our Feet: Earthquakes and Ear Quakes
3. A Planet Made of Beethoven: Audio-Stretching, Transductive Listening and 24/7 Aesthetics
4. Now You See It. : Hearing Colors and Picturing Soundscapes
5. Sound Asleep: Sleeping, Listening, and the Politics of Nonconscious Experience
6. Listening from Outer Space: Sun Ra's Reverberant Geology
Afterword
Bibliography
Notes
Index
Recenzii
Geosonics takes us to unheard-of aural worlds. From earthquakes to timestretching, from sleep music to Afrofuturism - each chapter is brimming with fresh and provocative ideas. Joshua Dittrich dissects vibrations and fuses frequencies, he takes apart the process of listening and builds it together again, and sensitizes our ears to the challenges of our times.
This brilliant book - riveting, resounding with analyses that constantly burrow into unexpected places - asks how scientists and publics sound out the Earth, offering a range of arresting answers that take readers on adventures across layers of listening, from deep underground to planetary orbit. Prepare to have your sense of the very world itself retuned!
Geosonics carefully examines moments of transductive mediation, unsettling expectations of sonic immediacy and presence. A brilliant contribution to environmental media studies, this book teaches us how to listen through all kinds of soundscapes-internal, nonconscious, seismic, experimental, and utopian.
Josh Dittrich drills down on our mediated relationship to the planet we inhabit while also unearthing the elemental nature of our media technologies-digital devices whose components are made of the very Earth they represent. Geosonics mines the doubly extractive nature of media, which produce partial realities 'by breaking up the earth, one piece at a time, with each world they construct.' Scholars in media, sound, and environmental studies will all dig it!
This brilliant book - riveting, resounding with analyses that constantly burrow into unexpected places - asks how scientists and publics sound out the Earth, offering a range of arresting answers that take readers on adventures across layers of listening, from deep underground to planetary orbit. Prepare to have your sense of the very world itself retuned!
Geosonics carefully examines moments of transductive mediation, unsettling expectations of sonic immediacy and presence. A brilliant contribution to environmental media studies, this book teaches us how to listen through all kinds of soundscapes-internal, nonconscious, seismic, experimental, and utopian.
Josh Dittrich drills down on our mediated relationship to the planet we inhabit while also unearthing the elemental nature of our media technologies-digital devices whose components are made of the very Earth they represent. Geosonics mines the doubly extractive nature of media, which produce partial realities 'by breaking up the earth, one piece at a time, with each world they construct.' Scholars in media, sound, and environmental studies will all dig it!