Sonic Possible Worlds - by Salomé Voegelin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Inspired by its use in literary theory, film criticism and the discourse of game design, Salomé Voegelin adapts and develops "possible world theory+? in relation to sound. David K Lewis' Possible World is juxtaposed with Maurice Merleau-Ponty's life-world, to produce a meeting of the semantic and the phenomenological at the place of listening. <br/><br/>The central tenet of <i>Sonic Possible Worlds</i> is that at present traditional musical compositions and contemporary sonic outputs are approached and investigated through separate and distinct critical languages and histories. As a consequence, no continuous and comparative study of the field is possible. <br/><br/>In <i>Sonic Possible Worlds</i>, Voegelin proposes a new analytical framework that can access and investigate works across genres and times, enabling a comparative engagement where composers such as Henry Purcell and Nadia Boulanger encounter sound art works by Shilpa Gupta and Christina Kubisch and where the soundscape compositions of Chris Watson and Francisco López resound in the visual worlds of Louise Bourgeois.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[Voegelin] proposes a new analytical framework that can access and investigate works across genres and times, enabling a comparative engagement ... A useful aesthetic manifesto on sound and textual phonography that will no doubt provoke meaningful debate on epistemology and aesthetics.<br/>Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture<br><br>The work is a rigorous exploration of 'soundscapes', putting a huge number of different nuanced areas under the microscope ... the "landscape+? as a privileged dimension in which to test a methodology of listening and render its different possibilities textually; the "sound artwork+? and the world it creates; the concept of "sonic materialism+?; and finally the "continuum of sound+?. Voegelin [even] dares to analyse "listening to the inaudible+?, venturing into what only our mind can create.<br/>Neural magazine<br><br>Voegelin's <i>Sonic Possible Worlds</i> is a rather provocative and challenging endeavor to take this necessary discussion to a high scholarly level without losing the connection with the art works themselves ... It should be compulsory reading for anyone interested in listening and the counterpart or supplement to new materialism, sonic materialism. Additionally, it is one of the few books which deals with both sound art and music, thus contributing not only to the discourse on sound studies but also offering new perspectives for musicologists.<br/>Journal of Sonic Studies<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Salomé Voegelin</b> is Professor of Sound at the London College of Communication, UAL, UK. An artist and writer, she is the author of<i> Listening to Noise and Silence</i> (Bloomsbury, 2010) and <i>The Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening</i> (Bloomsbury, 2018).
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