Listening to Noise and Silence

Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art

Dr Salomé Voegelin (Professor, London College of Communication, UK)

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English

Continuum Publishing Corporation
18 March 2010

Theory of music & musicology; Philosophy: aesthetics

Listening to Noise and Silence engages with the emerging practice of sound art and the concurrent development of a discourse and theory of sound. In this original and challenging work, Salomé Voegelin immerses the reader in concepts of listening to sound artwork and the everyday acoustic environment, establishing an aesthetics and philosophy of sound and promoting the notion of a sonic sensibility.

A multitude of sound works are discussed, by lesser known contemporary artists and composers (for example Curgenven, Gasson and Federer), historical figures in the field (Artaud, Feldman and Cage), and that of contemporary canonic artists such as Janet Cardiff, Bill Fontana, Bernard Parmegiani, and Merzbow.

Informed by the ideas of Adorno, Merleau-Ponty and others, the book aims to come to a critique of sound art from its soundings rather than in relation to abstracted themes and pre-existing categories. Listening to Noise and Silence broadens the discussion surrounding sound art and opens up the field for others to follow.

By: Dr Salomé Voegelin (Professor London College of Communication UK)
Imprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 558g
ISBN: 9781441126436
ISBN 10: 1441126430
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 18 March 2010
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Acknowledgements Introduction Part one Listening Being Honeyed To Listen Dynamic Things and Places Critique of a Remote Critic Listening to the Soundscape Recorded Listening to the Radio Conclusion: Sonic Solitude Part two Noise Bad Taste Noisy Non-Sense How can you hear it when you do not know what you are listening for? - Noise and Modernism Noise and Postmodernism Sonic Noise Conclusion: Noisy Voices Part three Silence Conceptual Silence When there is nothing to hear you start hearing things The silent ""I""/ Sonic Subjectivity Crickets Silent Duration Symbolic, Semiotic and Social Sound Moments of Coincidence Radiophonic Silence Conclusion: Silence as Context of Auditory Aesthetics Part four Time and Space Sitting in Rooms Resonating Places; Sounding Time Geography of Timespace Inhabiting a Playfull Agonism Building Sonic Bridges and Towns A Sonic Sensibility for New Media Art Narrating temporal places/ migration The Timespace of Radio Conclusion: Into the Now of Listening Part five Now Sonic Pasts: an Afterthought Perception and Sensation Sound as 'Pathetic Trigger' The Duration of Perception The Refrain of Now Bibliography List of Works Notes Index"

Salomé Voegelin is Professor of Sound at the London College of Communication, UAL, and an artist and writer engaged in listening as a socio-political practice of sound. She is the author of Listening to Noise and Silence (2010), Sonic Possible Worlds (2014) and The Political Possibility of Sound (2018), all by Bloomsbury Academic. Her work and writing deal with sound and the world sound makes: its aesthetic, social and political realities that are hidden by the persuasiveness of a visual point of view.

Reviews for Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art

"""The examples under discussion range from by-now canonical soundworks...to recent works by a clutch of lesser known artists...Voegelin's critical style is so singular that she avoids cliche in the treatment of all these artists, prising them out of a conversation about music and into a challenging treatise on the art of listening."" - The Wire ""The book's arguments are complex and developed with rigour, making a perceptive contribution to an emerging debate. In its favour, the work consistently forces the listener off-track to think critically about just what it is that makes listening so powerful and so elusive."" -Will Montgomery, The Wire, August 2010 Reviewed in the London Review of Books 23 September (UK) 'Listening to Noise and Silence will be of interest to a great many people following breakthrough trends within art and philosophy.' - Art Monthly ‘Listening to Noise and Silence will be of interest to a great many people following breakthrough trends in art and philosophy.' -- Art Monthly ‘Salome Voegelin has written an excellent book about sound art, escaping cliché and easy categorizations. She establishes a proper aesthetics and philosophy of sound, with a compelling phenomenological account of noise and silence.' -- Neural In Voegelin's evocative image, noise holds the listener hostage to his or her own listening... Listening to Noise and Silence contains many moments that sound artists and others will find insightful. -- Avant Music News"