A Philosophy of Ambient Sound: Materiality, Technology, Art and the Sonic Environment – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9789819917556

Product details:

• ISBN-13: 9789819917556
• Author: Ulrik Schmidt

This book presents the first book-length study of ambient sound as a key issue in sound studies and sonic philosophy. Taking a broad, media-philosophical approach, it explores ambient sound as a basic dimension of the sonic environment, sonic technologies, sonic arts and the material staging of listening.

Table contents:

1. Introduction
2. Epilogue: Generic, Inattentive, Asocial
3. Effects of Being-in
4. Environmental and Surrounding Sounds
5. Field Effects
6. Sonic Mediatization
7. Synthetic Strategies
8. Ambient Sound Design
9. Staging Ambient Listening
10. Architectures of Acoustic Immanence
11. Amplified Surrounds
12. Mobile Infrastructures of Everyday Listening

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