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Low end theory : bass, bodies and the materiality of sonic experience /

Low End Theory probes the much-mythologized field of bass and low-frequency sound. It begins in music but quickly moves far beyond, following vibratory phenomena across time, disciplines and disparate cultural spheres (including hauntings, laboratories, organ workshops, burial mounds, sound art, stu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jasen, Paul C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Colección:Bloomsbury music
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Sonic Body: An Ethico-Acoustic Toolkit
  • Sonorous relations
  • Tales and strategies
  • Myth-science in the vibratory milieu
  • 2. Spectral Catalysis: Disquieting Encounters
  • Spectres of the man-made unknown
  • Infrasound
  • Unhomed
  • Boo! (towards an operative reality)
  • Hum
  • And it was only by analogy that it could be called a sound at all ... '
  • Blinkered science
  • We still do not know what a sonic body can do ...
  • 3. Numinous Strategies
  • Learning to play the sonic body
  • nervous piano
  • Numinous instruments
  • Religious audiogenesis
  • Numinous sound design
  • Playing the resonances
  • Tellurian organs
  • organ-church assemblage
  • Arcanum: an ambulant myth-science
  • nervous organ
  • Baroque affect engineering
  • Gothic assemblage: applied synaesthetics
  • 4. Tone Scientists I: Vibratory Arts
  • Cymatic arts
  • Documentary practices
  • speculative turn
  • Perceptual abstraction
  • Transversal strategies
  • Incipient dance
  • Sonic architectures
  • Dance with the Speaker
  • `A people of oscillators'
  • 5. Tone Scientists II: Bass Cults
  • Lab
  • Science
  • Bass science
  • Dubplates and mastering
  • Engineering the vibratorium
  • Affects and affectations
  • Entering the rhythmachine
  • Three physio-logics
  • Jungle (1994)
  • Dubstep (2005)
  • Footwork (2009).