The Order of Sounds: A Sonorous Archipelago

by François J. Bonnet

This study of the subtlety, complexity, and variety of modes of hearing maps out a "sonorous archipelago"--a heterogeneous set of shifting sonic territories shaped by the vicissitudes of desire and discourse.

Profoundly intimate yet immediately giving onto distant spaces, both an "organ of fear" and an echo chamber of anticipated pleasures, an uncontrollable flow subject to unconscious selection and augmentation, the subtlety, complexity,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0993045871
• ISBN13: 9780993045875
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Urbanomic
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.5" x 6.8"