Sound : an acoulogical treatise /

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First published in French in 1998, revised in 2010, and appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion's Sound addresses the philosophical, interpretive, and practical questions that inform our encounters with sound. Chion considers how cultural institutions privilege some sounds ab...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Chion, Michel, 1947- (Author)
Other Authors: Steintrager, James A., 1965- (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Hearing.
Sound > Recording and reproducing.
Music > Acoustics and physics.
Son > Enregistrement et reproduction.
Musique > Acoustique et physique.
PSYCHOLOGY > Physiological Psychology.
MUSIC > Recording & Reproduction.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Closed grooves, open ears / James A. Steintrager
  • Preface to the French edition of 2010
  • Listening awakes
  • The ear
  • Sound and time
  • Voice, language, and sounds
  • Noise and music : a legitimate distinction?
  • The sound that you cause : ergo-audition
  • Sound and its cause : causal listening and figurative listening
  • Sound and what it causes : real and supposed effects
  • How technology has changed sound
  • The audiovisual couple in film : audio-vision
  • Object and non-object : two poles
  • Between doing and listening : naming.

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