| Description |
vii, 283 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-274) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Sonic Body: An Ethico-Acoustic Toolkit -- Sonorous relations -- Tales and strategies -- Myth-science in the vibratory milieu -- 2. Spectral Catalysis: Disquieting Encounters -- Spectres of the man-made unknown -- Infrasound -- Unhomed -- Boo! (towards an operative reality) -- Hum -- And it was only by analogy that it could be called a sound at all ... ' -- Blinkered science -- We still do not know what a sonic body can do ... -- 3. Numinous Strategies -- Learning to play the sonic body -- nervous piano -- Numinous instruments -- Religious audiogenesis -- Numinous sound design -- Playing the resonances -- Tellurian organs -- organ-church assemblage -- Arcanum: an ambulant myth-science -- nervous organ -- Baroque affect engineering -- Gothic assemblage: applied synaesthetics -- 4. Tone Scientists I: Vibratory Arts -- Cymatic arts -- Documentary practices -- speculative turn -- Perceptual abstraction -- Transversal strategies -- Incipient dance -- Sonic architectures -- Dance with the Speaker -- `A people of oscillators' -- 5. Tone Scientists II: Bass Cults -- Lab -- Science -- Bass science -- Dubplates and mastering -- Engineering the vibratorium -- Affects and affectations -- Entering the rhythmachine -- Three physio-logics -- Jungle (1994) -- Dubstep (2005) -- Footwork (2009). |
| Subject |
Music -- Acoustics and physics.
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Music -- Acoustics and physics. |
| ISBN |
150133591X (paperback) |
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9781501335914 (paperback) |
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