Sensing sound
Subtitle: singing & listening as vibrational practice
By: Nina Sun Eidsheim
Series: Sign, storage, transmission; Sign, storage, transmission
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780822360469; 9780822360612; 9780822374695
Subjects: Acoustics and physics; Philosophy and aesthetics; Vibration; Opera; Musical perception; Sound (Philosophy); Music; Listening; Performance; Singing; Voice (Musical medium of performance)
Other titles: Singing and listening as vibrational practice
Description: Eidsheim shows how sound, music, and listening are dynamic and contextually dependent, rather than being fixed, knowable, and constant. In Eidsheim's theory, music consists of aural, tactile, spatial, physical, material, and vibrational sensations. She uses twenty-first-century operas by Juliana Snapper, Meredith Monk, Christopher Cerrone and herself as case studies to challenge common assumptions about sound and to demonstrate the importance that location and reception play in a performance.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: Music's material dependency : what underwater opera can tell us about Odysseus's ears; title: The acoustic mediation of voice, self, and others; title: Music as action : singing happens before sound; title: All voice, all ears : from the figure of sound to the practice of music; title: Music as a vibrational practice : singing and listening as everything and nothing.