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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Street, Seán (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Sound,
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction: The Bell of Józef Czechowicz ¬- The Importance of Minute Sound Moments
  • 2 The Notes of Human Music
  • 3 Making the Moment Singable
  • 4 Signals from Near and Far Shores - Voices from the Natural World
  • 5 Speak My Name - the Ownership of Syllables
  • 6 First and Last Sounds - Messages Beyond Language.