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Sound at the Edge of Perception


Sound at the Edge of Perception

The Aural Minutiae of Sand and other Worldly Murmurings
Palgrave Studies in Sound

von: Seán Street

58,84 €

Verlag: Palgrave Pivot
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 16.07.2018
ISBN/EAN: 9789811316135
Sprache: englisch

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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.
<div>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.<br></div>
Seán Street is Emeritus Professor of Radio at Bournemouth University, UK. Previous books include <i>The Poetry of Radio</i>, <i>The Memory of Sound and Sound Poetics</i>. As a poet, he has published nine collections, the most recent being <i>Camera Obscura</i>, and has edited an anthology of poems about radio, entitled <i>Radio Waves</i>.
Provides a novel, philosophical perspective of sound, concerned with the emotional effect of 'moments of sound', and our potential to develop deeper responses to these events Offers an engaging narrative style told from perspective of a poet, an academic and a radio practitioner Explores the significance lying in the often-missed sounds of life, and attempts to champion an attentiveness to them Deconstructs the world's orchestra, uncovering the subtleties that lie almost concealed in the sound work of which we are a part Based principally on the author's own reflections drawn from a lifetime of gathering and listening to and for sounds in documentaries and features, and attempting to translate the world into words in poetry
“Seán Street is one of our great listeners and one of our finest interpreters of listening. This book uses literature, the visual arts, music, radio, the sounds of the natural world, and silence, to explore the deepest meanings of sound, or, as he writes in his last sentence, “all the murmurs in the whispering world”.” (Piers Plowright, Radio Features Producer)<p>“Professor Seán Street is one of our most important philosopher poets. He brings to the art of sound and radio an aesthetic conscience and creative intellect that finds the auricular heart in a grain of sand. He can articulate the meaning in those murmurings of past hearing that rest dormant in our listening memory only to be awakened by the poetic inspiration of our everyday soundscape. This beautiful book explores resonance and advances our understanding of T.S. Eliot's concept of the auditory imagination.” (Professor Tim Crook, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)</p>

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