Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener

by David Toop

Book Overview

Sinister Resonance begins with the premise that sound is a haunting, a ghost, a presence whose location is ambiguous and whose existence is transitory. The intangibility of sound is uncanny - a phenomenal presence in the head, at its point of source and all around. The close listener is like a medium who draws out substance from that which is not entirely there.

The history of listening must be constructed from the narratives of myth and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441155872
• ISBN13: 9781441155870
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"