Sonic Thinking: A Media Philosophical Approach

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Sonic Thinking attempts to extend the burgeoning field of media philosophy, which so far is defined by a strong focus on cinema, to the field of sound. The contributors urge readers to re-adjust their ideas of sound studies by attempting to think not only about sound [by external criteria, such as (cultural) meaning], but to think with and through sound. Series editor Bernd Herzogenrath’s collection serves two interconnected purposes: in developing an alternative philosophy of music that takes music seriously as a “form of thinking”; and in bringing this approach into a fertile symbiosis with the concepts and practices of “artistic research”: art, philosophy, and science as heterogeneous, yet co-equal forms of thinking and researching. Including contributions by both established figures and younger scholars working on cutting edge material, and weaving artistic responses and interventions in between the more theoretical texts, Herzogenrath’s collection provides a lively introduction to a fresh debate. Cover page Halftitle page Series page Title page Copyright page Contents Acknowledgments Contributors 1 sonic thinking—An Introduction Notes Works cited 2 Time|Place|Memory: Artistic Research as a Form of Thinking-Through-Media Autobiographical sightline: Time- sound-memory Artistic research: Thinking-through-making Performativity through materiality Artistic sightline: Photo works and place Historical sightlines: Genius loci Sound Transformation Crossroads on the sightlines: From photo to house, from place to memory The eternal and the continuum Notes Works cited sonic thought i Walking into Sound 3 Soundscape as a System and an Auditory Gestalt Schafer’s terms soundscape and acoustic ecology Soundscape as a field approach Soundscape and environmental Gestalt Ecology and its substructure Aspects of participation and interaction Coda Notes Works cited 4 Memories of Memories of Memories of Memories: Remembering and Recording on the Silent Mountain Notes Works cited sonic thought ii Thaumaturgical Topography: Place, Sound and Non-Thinking sonic thought iii The Sounds of Things “What’s this? By all the gods I hear something.” (Sophocles) “I shoot, I’m not joking!” (A Policeman) “The sound is plaintive, high-pitched, somewhat nasal.” (Alain Robbe-Grillet) “for the tones in the voice of the shadow were not tones of any being.” (Edgar Allen Poe) “There are developments of sounds, detached sounds, silences, trills.” (Paul Valéry) “We suddenly heard a strange noise that neither of us had ever heard before.” (Adalbert Stifter) “We listened and stared; I don’t know whether it was amazement or fear of driving deeper into that thing.” (Adalbert Stifter) Works cited 5 Sonic Thought Sonic ontology Sonic flux Sonic events Sound effects Notes Works Cited 6 in|human rhythms in|human rhythms: the longue durée of the earth in|human rhythms: becoming-insect in|human rhythms: the cardiac and respiration system Notes Works cited 7 Sound Without Organs: Inhuman Refrains and the Speculative Potential of a Cosmos-Without-Us Sound does not care what you think: The cosmos-without-us Reaching for the stars: The anthropic subversion of will.i.am The misanthropic subtraction of Miranda De/facializing the cosmos: Towards acosmic pessimism The sonic effect of an inhuman face Cosmic pessimism and dreadful possibilities Sound at the end of the world: Interstellar refrains and inhuman speculations Post-anthropocene sonority Towards an inhuman speculation Articulating a method: Hyperstitional thinking and sound without organs Notes Works cited 8 Buzzing off . . . Toward Sonic Thinking Proem Ontologies Inadequacies and incoherences Visual objectivism Sonic naturalism Autoactivity Works cited 9 Sound Beyond Nature | Sound Beyond Culture or: Why is the Prague Golem Mute? Works cited 10 One Dimensional Music Without Context or Meaning Note Works cited 11 How to Think Sonically? On the Generativity of the Flesh How to think spatially? How to think corporeally? How to think beyond logocentrism? How to think imaginatively? The generativity of the flesh Notes Works cited 12 Immanent Non-Musicology:Deleuze|Guattari vs. Laruelle Notes Works Cited 13 Sonic Figure: The Sound of The Black Soft Notes Works cited 14 Images of Thought | Images of Music Works cited 15 Digital Sound, Thought The digital stratum Digital sound, thought Notes Works cited sonic thought iv Sonotypes Index