The Sonic Persona An Anthropology of Sound

By:

Schulze, Holger

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. New YorkDescription: 272 pages 229 x 152 mmISBN:

9781501305450

DDC classification:

786.7 SCH

Contents:

In The Sonic Persona, Holger Schulze undertakes a critical study of some of the most influential studies in sound since the 19th century in the natural sciences, the engineering sciences, and in media theory, confronting them with contemporary artistic practices, with experimental critique, and with disturbing sonic experiences. From Hermann von Helmholtz to Miley Cyrus, from FLUXUS to the Arab Spring, from Wavefield Synthesis to otoacoustic emissions, from premillennial clubculture to postdemocratic authoritarianism, from signal processing to human echolocation: This book presents a fundamental critique concerning recent sound theories and their anthropological concepts – and proposes an alternate, a more plastic, a visceral framework for research in the field of a cultural anthropology of sounding and listening. This anthropology of sound takes its readers and listeners on a research expedition to the multitude of alien humanoids and their surprising sonic personae: in dynamic and generative tension between predetermined auditory dispositives, miniscule and not seldomly ignored sound practices, and idiosyncratic sensory corpuses: a critique of the senses.

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In The Sonic Persona, Holger Schulze undertakes a critical study of some of the most influential studies in sound since the 19th century in the natural sciences, the engineering sciences, and in media theory, confronting them with contemporary artistic practices, with experimental critique, and with disturbing sonic experiences.From Hermann von Helmholtz to Miley Cyrus, from FLUXUS to the Arab Spring, from Wavefield Synthesis to otoacoustic emissions, from premillennial clubculture to postdemocratic authoritarianism, from signal processing to human echolocation: This book presents a fundamental critique concerning recent sound theories and their anthropological concepts - and proposes an alternate, a more plastic, a visceral framework for research in the field of a cultural anthropology of sounding and listening.This anthropology of sound takes its readers and listeners on a research expedition to the multitude of alien humanoids and their surprising sonic personae: in dynamic and generative tension between predetermined auditory dispositives, miniscule and not seldomly ignored sound practices, and idiosyncratic sensory corpuses: a critique of the senses. I'm going to prove the impossible really exists.

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In The Sonic Persona, Holger Schulze undertakes a critical study of some of the most influential studies in sound since the 19th century in the natural sciences, the engineering sciences, and in media theory, confronting them with contemporary artistic practices, with experimental critique, and with disturbing sonic experiences.

From Hermann von Helmholtz to Miley Cyrus, from FLUXUS to the Arab Spring, from Wavefield Synthesis to otoacoustic emissions, from premillennial clubculture to postdemocratic authoritarianism, from signal processing to human echolocation: This book presents a fundamental critique concerning recent sound theories and their anthropological concepts – and proposes an alternate, a more plastic, a visceral framework for research in the field of a cultural anthropology of sounding and listening.

This anthropology of sound takes its readers and listeners on a research expedition to the multitude of alien humanoids and their surprising sonic personae: in dynamic and generative tension between predetermined auditory dispositives, miniscule and not seldomly ignored sound practices, and idiosyncratic sensory corpuses: a critique of the senses.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Part 1 The materialization of sound: A research history (p. 1)
1 Quantifying sound (p. 3)
Pro tools and the phonautograph (p. 3)
1863: Writing Helmholtz (p. 9)
1929: Fletcher's weirdness (p. 17)
1954: Experience by Beranek (p. 23)
Projections in the pavilion (p. 28)
2 Materializing listening (p. 31)
Destroying instruments, discovering ambient (p. 31)
1962: Sound in flux (p. 33)
1970: Baudry's dispositif (p. 39)
2008: Beyond Aufführungspraxis (p. 44)
Dispositives of surround sound (p. 49)
3 Corporealizing the senses (p. 54)
Into darkness (p. 54)
1985: Serres's syrrhesis (p. 58)
1992: Tension in Nancy (p. 66)
1998: Eshun and the senses (p. 75)
New sensory materialism (p. 79)
Part 2 The sonic persona: An anthropology of sound (p. 83)
4 In auditory dispositives (p. 85)
The microphone as poem (p. 85)
Scarce signals (p. 88)
The Apparatus Canto (p. 94)
Dispositive's capitalization (p. 101)
In/Resurrection (p. 107)
5 The sonic persona (p. 111)
Sonic traces (p. 111)
Idiosyncratic implex (p. 113)
The sonic persona (p. 120)
Varying experientiality (p. 126)
Anthropology of sound (p. 132)
6 A sensory corpus (p. 136)
The material percepts (p. 136)
Corpus in situ (p. 140)
A generative sensorium (p. 145)
Corporeal epistemologies (p. 150)
The listening body (p. 156)
Part 3 The precision of sensibility: A political critique (p. 161)
7 The precision of sensibility (p. 163)
Nanopolitics (p. 163)
Sensory critique (p. 166)
Apparatuses naturalized (p. 172)
The precision of sensibility (p. 178)
Idioplex (p. 183)
8 Resistance and resonance (p. 187)
Zeige deine Wunde (p. 187)
No response (p. 190)
Erratic heuristics (p. 196)
Noise as presence (p. 200)
Persona resista (p. 206)
9 Generativity (p. 212)
Cohesion (p. 212)
Im Erwachten Garten (p. 215)
Sensory syncope (p. 219)
Synaptic Island (p. 224)
Generativity (p. 227)
Sources (p. 233)
Tak. Danke. Thank you (p. 246)
Index (p. 248)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Holger Schulze is Full Professor in Musicology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and principal investigator at the Sound Studies Lab.