{"product_id":"sound-unseen-acousmatic-sound-in-theory-and-practice-9780190632212","title":"Sound Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice","description":"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\u003cbr\u003electured 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\u003cbr\u003esounds from sources, and new ways of composing music. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eSound Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice \u003c\/em\u003eexplores 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 concrète Pierre Schaeffer to describe the experience of hearing\u003cbr\u003ea 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\u003cbr\u003eacousmatic 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, \u003cem\u003e Sound Unseen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003epursues 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first major study in English of Pierre Schaeffer's theory of acousmatics, \u003cem\u003eSound Unseen\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential text for scholars of philosophy of music, electronic music, sound studies, and the history of the senses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brian Kane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190632212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrian Kane \u003c\/strong\u003eis Assistant Professor of Music at Yale University and a founding editor of the journal \u003cem\u003enonsite.org\u003c\/em\u003e. His research specializes in contemporary music, sound art, sound studies\/auditory culture, histories of listening, and intersections between music and philosophy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39929209061491,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":35.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_757f1e94-0d90-49f3-82f6-b4f73313caa7.jpg?v=1647611479","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/sound-unseen-acousmatic-sound-in-theory-and-practice-9780190632212","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}