Title: Sensing sound
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.
Subjects: Acoustics and physics, Philosophy and aesthetics, Vibration, Opera, Musical perception, Sound (Philosophy), Music, Listening, Performance, Singing, Voice (Musical medium of performance), Sound, Music, acoustics and physics
People: Christopher Cerrone, Juliana Snapper, Meredith Monk, Nina Sun Eidsheim (1975-)
Time periods: 21st century