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Sound at the Edge of Perception The Aural Minutiae of Sand and other Worldly Murmurings /
This book is about the tiny sounds of the world, and listening to them, the minute signals that are clues to who and where we are. A very small sound, given the context of its history, becomes hugely significant, and even an imagined sound in a picture becomes almost a voice. By speaking a name, we...
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| Format: | e-Book |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore :
Springer Nature Singapore :
2019.
Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Sound,
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| Online Access: | Full-text access |
| Summary: | This book is about the tiny sounds of the world, and listening to them, the minute signals that are clues to who and where we are. A very small sound, given the context of its history, becomes hugely significant, and even an imagined sound in a picture becomes almost a voice. By speaking a name, we give a person back to the world, and a breath, a sigh, a laugh or a cry need no language. A phoneme is the start of all stories, and were we able to tune ourselves to the subtleties of the natural world, we might share the super-sensitivity of members of the bird and animal kingdom to sense the message in the apparent silence. Mind hears sound when it perceives an image; the book will appeal to sonic and radio practitioners, students of sound, those working in the visual arts, and creative writers. |
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| Physical Description: | XIII, 138 p. online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9789811316135 |
| ISSN: | 2633-5883 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-981-13-1613-5 |