Sound unseen
Subtitle: acousmatic sound in theory and practice
By: Brian Kane
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780199347841; 9780190632212; 9780199347872
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Sound (Philosophy); Music; Acoustics and physics; Philosophy and aesthetics; History and criticism; Musique concrète
Description: Explores acousmatic sound - sound coming from outside the field of vision, from somewhere beyond. An unusual and neglected word 'acousmatic' was first introduced into modern parlance in the mid-1960s by avant garde composer of musique concrète Pierre Schaeffer. Working through, and often against, Schaeffer's ideas, Brian Kane 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.
Notes: Paperback edition printed 2016.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-291) and index.
Table of contents: title: The acousmatic situation. Pierre Schaeffer, the sound object, and the acousmatic reduction; title: Interruptions. Myth and the origin of the Pythagorean veil ; The baptism of the acousmate; title: Conditions. Acousmatic phantasmagoria and the problem of technê ; Interlude : Must musique concrète be phantasmagoric? ; Kafka and the ontology of acousmatic sound; title: Cases. Acousmatic fabrications : Les Paul and the 'Les Paulverizer' ; The acousmatic voice.