[ANPPOM-Lista] Sound Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice, by Brian Kane

[Carlos Palombini]

Sound Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice, by Brian Kane

   - Presents a new theory of acousmatic sound, challenging the theories of
   Pierre Schaeffer and Michel Chion
   - A well-researched account of the history of acousmatic sound
   - First major study of Pierre Schaeffer's work in English.

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.

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.

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.

*Readership: *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.
http://goo.gl/2HR8Sz

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carlos palombini
professor de musicologia ufmg
professor colaborador ppgm-unirio
orcid.org/0000-0002-4365-7673
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