The Order of Sounds: A Sonorous Archipelago
by François J. Bonnet
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This study of the subtlety, complexity, and variety of modes of hearing maps out a "sonorous archipelago"-a heterogeneous set of shifting sonic territories shaped by the vicissitudes of desire and discourse.Profoundly intimate yet immediately giving onto distant spaces, both an "organ of fear" and an echo chamber of anticipated pleasures, an uncontrollable flow subject to unconscious selection and augmentation, the subtlety, complexity, and variety of modes of hearing has meant that sound show more has rarely received the same philosophical attention as the visual. In The Order of Sounds, Fran ois J. Bonnet makes a compelling case for the irreducible heterogeneity of "sound," navigating between the physical models constructed by psychophysics and refined through recording technologies, and the synthetic production of what is heard. From primitive vigilance and sonic mythologies to digital sampling and sound installations, he examines the ways in which we make sound speak to us, in an analysis of listening as a plurivocal phenomenon drawing on Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Barthes, Nancy, Adorno, and de Certeau, and experimental pioneers such as Tesla, Bell, and Raudive. Stringent critiques of the "soundscape" and "reduced listening" demonstrate that univocal ontologies of sound are always partial and politicized; for listening is always a selective fetishism, a hallucination of sound filtered by desire and convention, territorialized by discourse and its authorities. Bonnet proposes neither a disciplined listening that targets sound "itself," nor an "ocean of sound" in which we might lose ourselves, but instead maps out a sonorous archipelago-a heterogeneous set of shifting sonic territories shaped and aggregated by the vicissitudes of desire and discourse. show lessTags
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- The Order of Sounds: A Sonorous Archipelago
- Original publication date
- 2016
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- Nonfiction, Philosophy, Music, Art & Design, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 709.04094 — Arts & recreation Arts History, geographic treatment, biography By Period 1900-1999 20th century; Modern art modified standard subdivisions, and movements Outsider art
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- B105 .S59 .B666 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Philosophy (General)
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