<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Sound Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice, by Brian Kane<br><ul class=""><li><span class="">Presents a new theory of acousmatic sound, challenging the theories of Pierre Schaeffer and Michel Chion</span></li>
<li><span class="">A well-researched account of the history of acousmatic sound</span></li><li><span class="">First major study of Pierre Schaeffer's work in English.</span></li></ul>Sound
coming from outside the field of vision, from somewhere beyond, holds a
privileged place in the Western imagination. When separated from their
source, sounds seem to manifest transcendent realms, divine powers, or
supernatural forces. According to legend, the philosopher Pythagoras
lectured to his disciples from behind a veil, and two thousand years
later, in the age of absolute music, listeners were similarly fascinated
with disembodied sounds, employing various techniques to isolate sounds
from their sources. With recording and radio came spatial and temporal
separation of sounds from sources, and new ways of composing music.<br><br>Sound
Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice explores the phenomenon
of acousmatic sound. An unusual and neglected word, "acousmatic" was
first introduced into modern parlance in the mid-1960s by avant garde
composer of musique concrete music Pierre Schaeffer to describe the
experience of hearing a sound without seeing its cause. 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. Kane investigates acousmatic sound from a number of
methodological perspectives-historical, cultural, philosophical and
musical-and provides a framework that makes sense of the many surprising
and paradoxical ways
that unseen sound has been understood. Finely detailed and thoroughly
researched, Sound Unseen pursues unseen sounds through a stunning array
of cases-from Bayreuth to Kafka's "Burrow," Apollinaire to Zizek, music
and metaphysics to architecture and automata, and from Pythagoras to the
present-to offer the definitive account of acousmatic sound in theory
and practice. <br><br>The first major study in English of Pierre
Schaeffer's theory of "acousmatics," Sound Unseen is an essential text
for scholars of philosophy of music, electronic music, sound studies,
and the history of the senses.<p><strong>Readership: </strong>Music
theorists & historians; scholars and composers interested in sound
studies, electronic music, and
musical aesthetics; graduate & upper level undergraduate courses.
General readers or interdisciplinary scholars of philosophy, comparative
literature, or the humanities.</p>
<a href="http://goo.gl/2HR8Sz">http://goo.gl/2HR8Sz</a><br><br clear="all"></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>carlos palombini<br>professor de musicologia ufmg<br>professor colaborador ppgm-unirio<br><a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4365-7673" target="_blank">orcid.org/0000-0002-4365-7673</a><br>
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