Resonant Fabrics - Listening to Urban Worlds

Description

Soundscapes profoundly connect listeners to the places they inhabit and thereby reveal the vibrant and resonant fabrics that lie beneath the delineated spaces of visual representation. In Resonant Fabrics, Marvin Heine explores and celebrates the many-layered and ambiguously undulating sense- and soundscapes as they shape and are shaped by urban cultures and particular ways of listening. By examining historical documents, contemporary accounts, and original empirical material through a combination of actor-network-theory, ecology, and sound studies scholarship, he embraces, in a stylistically embodied and often poetic manner, the sonic urban world in all its fragile, ephemeral, yet deeply affective sonority. Cover Contents Foreword: The Resonance of Soundscapes Prologue 1. Introduction: Sound, Sense and Place 2. Archeoacoustics: A Soundwalk through History 3. Palimpsest: The Contemporary City’s Intersecting Sonic Layers 4. Into Sound: Methods and Methodologies 5. Vienna Multiple: The Resonant Fabrics of a City Epilogue Bibliography