Beyond Unwanted Sound

Author : Marie Thompson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501313320
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Unwanted Sound written by Marie Thompson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noise is so often a 'stench in the ear' – an unpleasant disturbance or an unwelcome distraction. But there is much more to noise than what greets the ear as unwanted sound. Beyond Unwanted Sound is about noise and how we talk about it. Weaving together affect theory with cybernetics, media histories, acoustic ecology, geo-politics, sonic art practices and a range of noises, Marie Thompson critiques both the conservative politics of silence and transgressive poetics of noise music, each of which position noise as a negative phenomenon. Beyond Unwanted Sound instead aims to account for a broader spectrum of noise, ranging from the exceptional to the banal; the overwhelming to the inaudible; and the destructive to the generative. What connects these various and variable manifestations of noise is not negativity but affectivity. Building on the Spinozist assertion that to exist is to be affected, Beyond Unwanted Sound asserts that to exist is to be affected by noise.

Author : Lane Arye
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1612832903
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unintentional Music written by Lane Arye and published by Hampton Roads Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last time you whistled a tune or hummed a song-why did you choose that one? You may not consider yourself a musical person, but your little act of unintended music may be the key to unlocking within you a wealth of unsuspected creativity-a kind of creativity that goes way beyond music, too. Lane Arye, PhD, a musician himself, focuses on the music that people do not intend to make. Using the highly regarded psychological model called Process Work, developed by Arnold Mindell, PhD, Arye has been teaching students around the world how to awaken their creativity, using music as the starting point, but including all art forms and ways of expression. The unintentional appears at moments when some hidden part of us, something beyond our usual awareness, suddenly tries to express itself. If we start paying attention to what is trying to happen rather than to what we think should happen, we open the door to self-discovery and creativity. Sometimes what we regard as "mistakes" in self-expression are in fact treasures. The book is rich with real-life stories, ideas, and practical techniques for unlocking creativity, which Arye dispenses with humor, insight, and enthusiasm.

Author : Garret Keizer
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 9781610391108
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want written by Garret Keizer and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noise is usually defined as unwanted sound: loud music from a neighbor, the honk of a taxicab, the roar of a supersonic jet. But as Garret Keizer illustrates in this probing examination, noise is as much about what we want as about what we seek to avoid. In a journey that leads us from the primeval Tanzanian veldt to wind farms in Maine, Keizer invites us to listen to noise in history, in popular culture, and not least of all in our own backyards. He follows noise throughout history and across the globe. He considers what it has to tell us about today's most pressing issues, from social inequality to climate change. The result is guaranteed to change how we hear the world, and how we measure our own personal volume within it.

Author : Marie Thompson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501313312
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Unwanted Sound written by Marie Thompson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noise is so often a 'stench in the ear' – an unpleasant disturbance or an unwelcome distraction. But there is much more to noise than what greets the ear as unwanted sound. Beyond Unwanted Sound is about noise and how we talk about it. Weaving together affect theory with cybernetics, media histories, acoustic ecology, geo-politics, sonic art practices and a range of noises, Marie Thompson critiques both the conservative politics of silence and transgressive poetics of noise music, each of which position noise as a negative phenomenon. Beyond Unwanted Sound instead aims to account for a broader spectrum of noise, ranging from the exceptional to the banal; the overwhelming to the inaudible; and the destructive to the generative. What connects these various and variable manifestations of noise is not negativity but affectivity. Building on the Spinozist assertion that to exist is to be affected, Beyond Unwanted Sound asserts that to exist is to be affected by noise.

Author : Hillel Schwartz
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 : 9781935408123
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Noise written by Hillel Schwartz and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listening across millennia, a cultural historian explores the process by which noise today has become as powerfully metaphorical--and intriguing--as the original Babel. When did the "silent deeps" become cacophonous and galaxies begin to swim in a sea of cosmic noise? Why do we think that noises have colors and that colors can be loud? How loud is too loud, and says who? Attending, as ears do, to a surround of sounds at once physical and political, Hillel Schwartz listens across millennia for changes in the Western experience and understanding of noise. From the uproarious junior gods of Babylonian epics to crying infants heard over baby monitors, from doubly mythic Echo to amplifier feedback, from shouts frozen in Rabelaisian air to the squawk of loudspeakers and the static of shortwave radio, Making Noise follows "unwanted sound" on its surprisingly revealing path through terrains domestic and industrial, urban and rural, legal and religious, musical and medical, poetic and scientific. At every stage, readers can hear the cultural reverberations of the historical soundwork of actresses, admen, anthropologists, astronomers, builders, composers, dentists, economists, engineers, filmmakers, firemen, grammar school teachers, jailers, nurses, oceanographers, pastors, philosophers, poets, psychologists, and the writers of children's books. Drawing upon such diverse sources as the archives of antinoise activists and radio advertisers, catalogs of fireworks and dental drills, letters and daybooks of physicists and physicians, military manuals and training films, travel diaries and civil defense pamphlets, as well as museum collections of bells, ear trumpets, megaphones, sirens, stethoscopes, and street organs, Schwartz traces the process by which noise today has become as powerfully metaphorical as the original Babel. Endnotes and bibliography are not included in the physical book but are available online at the MIT Press Web site.

Author : Nicolas Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780262753951
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Noises Off - Sound Beyond Music written by Nicolas Collins and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sunday Afolayan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Silent Grave written by Sunday Afolayan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul C. Merritt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coal Age Operating Handbook of Coal Preparation written by Paul C. Merritt and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph R. Dominick
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broadcasting, Cable, the Internet, and Beyond written by Joseph R. Dominick and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 2004 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Local Self-Government Institute (Bombay)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quarterly Journal of the Local Self Government Institute (Bombay). written by Local Self-Government Institute (Bombay) and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: