The Sonic Persona(Reprint) An Anthropology of Sound by HolgerSchulze Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2018 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-0545-0, ISBN: 1-5013-0545-X
"In The Sonic Persona, Holger Schulze undertakes a critical study of some of the most influential studies in sound since the 19th century in the natural sciences, the engineering sciences, and in media theory, confronting them with contemporary artistic practices, with experimental critique, and with disturbing sonic experiences.From Hermann von Helmholtz to Miley Cyrus, from FLUXUS to the Arab Spring, from Wavefield Synthesis to otoacou ..."
"Scholars consider sound and its concepts, taking as their premise the idea that popular culture can be analyzed in an innovative way through sound.The wide-ranging texts in this book take as their premise the idea that sound is a subject through which popular culture can be analyzed in an innovative way. From an infant's gurgles over a baby monitor to the roar of the crowd in a stadium to the sub-bass frequencies produced by sound syste ..."
"Sonic fiction is everywhere: in conversations about vernacular culture, in music videos, sound art compositions and on record sleeves, in everyday encounters with sonic experiences and in every single piece of writing about sound. Where one can find sounds one will also detect bits of fiction.In 1998 music critic, DJ and video essayist Kodwo Eshun proposed this concept in his book “More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fictio ..."
Sound Works A Cultural Theory of Sound Design by Professor HolgerSchulze Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2020 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-7373-2, ISBN: 1-5013-7373-0
"This book is not a manual on sound design; it instead argues for a cultural theory of sound design for sound designers and sound artists, for clients who commission a sound design and for researchers in the fields of sound studies, design ..."
Sound Works A Cultural Theory of Sound Design by HolgerSchulze, Carla J. Maier, Julia Krause Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2019 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-3022-3, ISBN: 1-5013-3022-5
"What is sound design? What function does it have in the early 21st century, and what role could it play in the near future? This book explores the current state of functional sound design, its recent history, its characteristic forms of labor, and how it is deeply interwoven with everyday life practices.This book is broken down into four parts: a historical overview of sound design that traces sound design from its novel beginnings to t ..."
The Sonic Persona An Anthropology of Sound (Hardback) by HolgerSchulze 256 Pages, Published 2018 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-0546-7, ISBN: 1-5013-0546-8
"From Hermann von Helmholtz to Miley Cyrus, from FLUXUS to the Arab Spring, from Wavefield Synthesis to otoacoustic emissions, from premillennial clubculture to postdemocratic authoritarianism, from signal processing to human echolocation: ..."
"The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art presents an overview of the contemporary and future developments in sound art. Over the past three decades, sound art has been a frequent field of analysis and discussion within academia and in the areas of musicology, visual arts, and later, sound studies. Sound art initially centered around an artistic approach and later rooted itself in institutional and installation art (e.g. “Klangkunst”) and me ..."
"However, it is prescribed in, for example, Nicholas M. Elias's Divine Liturgy
Explained, an official edition in English. Here, the reader is instructed to perform
the Thanksgiving Hymn in a “melodic and reverent tone” (Elias 2000: 165).
Monks at ..."
Sonic Fiction by HolgerSchulze 192 Pages, Published 2020 by Bloomsbury Publishing Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-3480-1, ISBN: 1-5013-3480-8
"As a heuristic fiction then sonic fiction can be able to assume primarily two roles;
these roles are complementarily related, relating to, and relying on each other:
the more activist approaches to sonic fiction take action directly in the area of the
..."
"some events, spaces, and organizers emerging recently include 耳蝸 Cochlea
Lab, Lacking Sound Festival (2007) or Ting ... In Malaysia, the Kuala Lumpur
Experimental Film, Video & Music Festival (KLEX) has been a regional driver of ...
Transregional and transnational networks in experimental music and sound art (
Fermont 2016) are now active in ... a festival dedicated to sound art, improvised
music, and experimental music practices, w ..."
Sonic Fiction by HolgerSchulze 192 Pages, Published 2020 by Bloomsbury Publishing Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-3481-8, ISBN: 1-5013-3481-6
"... not only the mestiza culture or border culture just mentioned in the section
before. Recently, this still expanding multiplicity has been summed up as a series
of ethnofuturisms, by Armen Avanessian and Mahan Moalemi: The notion of a
black ..."
"But sonic fiction is more than just a skeptical, critical project. It is a creative
practice. A way of producing new narrative worlds and systems of signification
that, while they may start from the conditions that can be said “to be,” they do not
remain ..."
"Repetition is constitutive of human life. Both the species and the individual develop through repetition. Unlike simple recall, repetition is permeated by the past and the present and is oriented toward the future. Repetition of central actions and events plays an important role in the lives of individuals and the life of society. It helps to create meaning and memory. Because repetition is a central aspect of human life, it plays a rol ..."
Sound Works A Cultural Theory of Sound Design by HolgerSchulze 272 Pages, Published 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-3024-7, ISBN: 1-5013-3024-1
"Sound studies and cultural studies scholar Carla J. Maier engaged in all the
analytical research on everyday practices of listeners, the semiotics of sound, as
well as the transcultural aspects of sound design documented in Part Three: “
Living ..."
The Sonic Persona An Anthropology of Sound by HolgerSchulze 272 Pages, Published 2018 by Bloomsbury Publishing Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-0548-1, ISBN: 1-5013-0548-4
"These idiosyncrasies imply an inclination to particular activities, a preference for
specific forms of further actions or demands: it is an implex. Taken from Paul
Valéry (cf. Valéry 1957: 234ff.) and exp anded to a broader concept by Dietmar
Dath and Barbara Kirchner (Dath and Kirchner 2012), the ramifications of an
implex stick with the proclivities in a given social and historical, cultural and
biographical constellation—and it ..."
The Sonic Persona An Anthropology of Sound by HolgerSchulze 272 Pages, Published 2018 by Bloomsbury Publishing Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-0547-4, ISBN: 1-5013-0547-6
"Valéry, P. (1965), The Collected Works of Paul Valery, in Jackson Mathews, Part
V: Idee fixe. A Duologue by the Sea, translation by D. Paul, preface by J.
Mathews, introduction by Philip Wheelwright, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press. Valéry, P. (2007), Cahiers/Notebooks 3. Translated by Norma Rinsler,
Paul Ryan, Brian Stimpson, based on the French Cahiers edited by Judith
Robinson-Valéry, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. Var ..."
"Bijsterveld, Karin, Eefje Cleophas, Stefan Krebs, and Gijs Mom. 2014. Sound and
Safe: How We Found Sonic Relief in the Car. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bijsterveld, Karin, and Annelies Jacobs. 2009. Storing sound souvenirs: The multi
-sited domestication of the tape recorder. In Sound Souvenirs: Audio
Technologies, Memory and Cultural Practices, ed. Karin Bijsterveld and José van
Dijck, 25–42. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Pr ..."