| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 291 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Palgrave Studies in Sound Series |
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Palgrave studies in sound.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1: Introduction -- The 'Problem' of Ambient Sound -- The Concept of Ambient Sound -- Sonic Environmentality -- Surroundability -- Onto-aesthetics -- Perspectives and Aims -- Bibliography -- Part I: Fields -- 2: Effects of Being-in -- Toward a Material Morphology of Ambient Sound -- Sound as Furniture -- Centralization and Decentralization -- Bibliography -- 3: Environmental and Surrounding Sounds -- From Environmental to Surrounding Sounds -- Objectivity and Environmentality -- Objectlessness -- The A-figurative Continuum |
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Generalized Pop -- Bibliography -- 7: Ambient Sound Design -- Sound Design and the Production of Audiovisual Immanence -- The Sonic Environment in Classic Cinema -- The Contemporary Audiovisual Scene -- The Emancipation of Ambient Sound -- Sonic Intensification of Audiovisual Space -- Bibliography -- Part III: Frames -- 8: Staging Ambient Listening -- Technology and Listening -- The Synthetic Production of the Listening Environment -- The Double Mediality of Technological Listening -- Staging the Ambient Listening Environment -- Bibliography -- 9: Architectures of Acoustic Immanence |
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Mediatization of Acoustic Space -- Enhanced Reverberation -- Acousmatization and Mediatization of the Acoustic Interior -- Anti-reverberatory Purification -- Bibliography -- 10: Amplified Surrounds -- Amplified Expansion and Centralization -- Cinematic Surround Sound -- Non-cinematic Surround Sound -- Bibliography -- 11: Mobile Infrastructures of Everyday Listening -- Headphone Bubbles and Their Surroundings -- Inside the Cocoon -- Infrastructures of Environmental Distribution -- Streaming Infrastructures and Bubbles of Ubiquity -- Bibliography -- 12: Epilogue: Generic, Inattentive, Asocial |
| Summary |
This book presents the first book-length study of ambient sound as a key issue in sound studies and sonic philosophy. Taking a broad, media-philosophical approach, it explores ambient sound as a basic dimension of the sonic environment, sonic technologies, sonic arts and the material staging of listening. Through analyses of key concepts such as surroundability, mediatization, immanence, synthetization and continuous variation, the book elucidates how ambient aspects of sound influence our conceptions of what sound is and how it affects us by exposing sound⁰́₉s relation to basic categories such as space, time, environment, medium and materiality. It also illuminates how the strategic production of ambient sound constitutes a leading aesthetic paradigm that has been a decisive factor in the shaping of the modern sonic environment ⁰́₃ from key developments in experimental and popular music, sound art and cinematic sound design to the architectural-technological construction of listening spaces in concert halls and theaters and in current streaming infrastructures, digital surround sound and the everyday aesthetics of headphone listening |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Bibliography -- 4: Field Effects -- Univocity and Consistency -- Ubiquity -- Immanence and Immersion -- Toward the Ground -- Groundlessness -- Continuous Variation -- Bibliography -- Part II: Strategies -- 5: Sonic Mediatization -- Environmentality Without Ecology -- What Is Mediatization? -- Mediation and Mediatization -- Acousmatics and Mediatization -- Medium Effects, Phonogeny and Mediatization -- Bibliography -- 6: Synthetic Strategies -- From Reproduction Sensibilities to Production Sensibilities -- Synthetic and Organic Matter -- Synthetic Sound and Technology -- Sound Masses |
| Subject |
Ambient sounds.
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Sound (Philosophy)
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Ambient sounds
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Sound (Philosophy)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789819917556 |
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9819917557 |
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