Sonic Possible Worlds, Revised Edition

Hearing the Continuum of Sound

By: Salomé Voegelin

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Hardcover | 25 March 2021 | Edition Number 2

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In Sonic Possible Worlds, Salome Voegelin adapts and develops a theory of sound inspired by its use in literary theory, film criticism, and the discourse of game design. It proposes that at present traditional musical compositions and contemporary sonic outputs are approached and investigated through separate and distinct critical languages and histories. As a consequence, no continuous and comparative study of the field is possible.

The revised and updated edition of Sonic Possible Worlds continues Voegelin's exploration of this theory, placing new emphasis on the feminist perspective. It includes an updated introduction as well as a new chapter on sonic possible worlds' radical power to rethink and react to current normative constructions of the body. It investigates works across genres and time periods, enabling a comparative engagement, and engaging with texts and artists new to this edition including bell hooks, Helene Cixous, Clarice Lispector, Audre Lorde, Sarah Ahmed, Aine O Dwyer, and Jocy de Oliveira.

About the Author

Salome Voegelin is Professor of Sound at the London College of Communication, UAL, UK. An artist and writer, she is the author of Listening to Noise and Silence (Bloomsbury, 2010) and The Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening (Bloomsbury, 2018).

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Salome Voegelin is a brilliant and subtle thinker about sound and music, so Sonic Possible Worlds: Hearing the Continuum of Sound, Revised Edition is a deeply explored and essential study of the necessity of listening, of openly absorbing what sound tells us of our shared world, listening which gives us access to the fluid nature of relationships and connections, to the interactive web of the world and our participation in it through awareness of this 'complex continuity' and of ourselves inextricably enmeshed within it.

Salome Voegelin generously maps many ways of practicing listening to sonic worlds and of sharing access to the ever-expanding "possible world" of sound-life, then goes further, leaping beyond our physical and conceptual limits, diving into sound we cannot hear but which affects us, becoming part of our apprehensible world and of our learning how to live within it.
Annea Lockwood Professor Emeritus, Vassar College, USA, and composer and sound artist

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