Experiencing Sound

Contents Preface  Introduction  1. June 24, 2019: The Wind on Mars  2. Listening for the Llamas  3. Auditory Epiphanies  4. Sound and World  5. Listening to Silence  6. Calm Sea: Going Nowhere, Hearing Nothing  7. Prisons of Silence  8. Just One Sound  9. Song and Sound  10. Already Music  11. Coming Alive  12. The Vocal Telegraph  13. The Ravished Ear  14. Campaniles  15. Cannonades  16. Soundless Hearing  17. The Talking Dead  18. From Sounds to Sound  19. Fictitious Sounds  20. Bells  21. Dis/Embodiment  22. Threads  23. Playback  24. Shorthand  25. Poems to Music  26. Grooves  27. Grooves II: Spacing  28. Beyond Analogy  29. Phonogram and Gramophone  30. Forest Murmurs  31. Epithet  32. Mesmerizing Sound  33. Cathay  34. Night. A Street. No Lamps.  35. The Resonating Cure  36. The Voice of Language  37. Nocturne. Another City.  38. Annals of Slavery: A Violin  39. The Grammar of Uncertainty  40. Aftersounds 41. Persistence of Hearing  42. Annals of Slavery II: A Vigil  43. A Voice in a Box  44. The Contralto Mystique: Intercession  45. The Contralto Mystique II: Departure  46. Two Lynchings  47. “White Christmas”: Saigon, 1975  48. The Ghetto: New York, 1904  49. Testimony  50. Voice  51. Inner Speech  52. The Deafness of Narcissus  53. Sound in the Making  54. Housewarming  55. Language Dead or Alive  56. Hearing Plato’s Cave  57. Speaking and Being  58. Minding the Senses  59. LP: Longplayer  60. Harmonies of the World  61. Uneven Measures  62. Sound, Finitude, Music  63. The Shards of the Infinite  64. A Passing Synthesis  65. Aeolian Visitations  66. Harmonizing  Notes  Index