Description

Sound Unseen explores the phenomenon of acousmatic sound — a sound that one hears without seeing its source-and presents a powerful argument for the central yet overlooked role of acousmatic sound in music aesthetics, sound studies, literature, philosophy and the history of the senses.

CONTENTS

Table of Contents
Introduction
PART I. The Acousmatic Situation
CHAPTER 1. Pierre Schaeffer, the sound object and the acousmatic reduction
PART II. Interruptions
CHAPTER 2. Myth and the origin of the Pythagorean veil
CHAPTER 3. The baptism of the acousmate
PART III. Conditions
CHAPTER 4. Acousmatic phantasmagoria and the problem of techne
INTERLUDE. Must musique concrete be phantasmagoric?
CHAPTER 5. Kafka and the ontology of acousmatic sound
PART IV. Cases
CHAPTER 6. The acousmatic voice
CHAPTER 7. Acousmatic fabrications: Les Paul and the Les Paulverizer
Notes
Bibliography