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Sonic Possible Worlds: Hearing the Continuum of Sound

Sonic Possible Worlds: Hearing the Continuum of Sound

Voegelin, Salomé

Paperback

PhilosophyMusic Instruction: GeneralMusic Reference

ISBN10: 162356509X
ISBN13: 9781623565091
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Jun 19 2014
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Inspired by its use in literary theory, film criticism and the discourse of game design, Salomé Voegelin adapts and develops possible world theory in relation to sound. David K Lewis' Possible World is juxtaposed with Maurice Merleau-Ponty's life-world, to produce a meeting of the semantic and the phenomenological at the place of listening.

The central tenet of Sonic Possible Worlds is that at present traditional musical compositions and contemporary sonic outputs are approached and investigated through separate and distinct critical languages and histories. As a consequence, no continuous and comparative study of the field is possible.

In Sonic Possible Worlds, Voegelin proposes a new analytical framework that can access and investigate works across genres and times, enabling a comparative engagement where composers such as Henry Purcell and Nadia Boulanger encounter sound art works by Shilpa Gupta and Christina Kubisch and where the soundscape compositions of Chris Watson and Francisco López resound in the visual worlds of Louise Bourgeois.

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