Twelve articles emerging from the activities of the Berlin research group "Sound Studies and Sonic Arts" show the variety of looking into the world with our ears. Being ephemeral in a visual sense, as Sabine Sanio highlights in her article, sound is imbued with a materiality that can only be understood, when the auditory is perceived in its own right, opening unique perspectives onto the world.

From the early history of sound installation, 1920s Berlin Avantgarde, on to the earthquake of Agadir in 1960, Alvin Lucier's work, the history of digital audio formats up to present day considerations on the compositional subject and performance media, the "Sound Studies and Sonic Arts Reader" opens a tableau of what sound as epistemic approach can mean today. (Wolke Verlag)

Sound Studies and Sonic Arts Reader
eds. Julia H. Schröder and Volker Straebel

With articles by Jan Thoben, Sabine Sanio, Bernhard Rietbrock, Julia H. Schröder, Simone Heilgendorff, Thomas Sporer, Alex Arteaga, Gilles Aubry, Luc Döbereiner, Johannes Regnier, Volker Straebel

Copy-editing by Lottie Sebes and Eric Maltz.
Graphic Design by Kathrin Scheidt.

208 p. / en / 29€
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