Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice

by Nina Sun Eidsheim

Book Overview

In Sensing Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions how we think about sound, music, and listening. Eidsheim shows how sound, music, and listening are dynamic and contextually dependent, rather than being fixed, knowable, and constant. She uses twenty-first-century operas by Juliana Snapper, Meredith Monk, Christopher Cerrone, and Alba Triana as case studies to challenge common assumptions about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822360616
• ISBN13: 9780822360612
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"