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Technology culture, sonic arts theory, philosophy, and critical inquiry
Encountering Sound
The coda to Sound Encounters, reflecting on how sounds persist in memory and experience. This closing chapter considers the lingering presence of...
Practising Realism
The final chapter of Sound Encounters, moving from theory to practice. This chapter explores what it means to practice sonic realism - to compose,...
Toward a Sonic Realism
A critical reflection on sonic realism itself. This chapter turns back to examine the limitations and potential pitfalls of the realist position,...
The Politics of Sound
A critical examination of the politics of sound and listening. This chapter connects sonic realism to questions of power, asking who gets to sound,...
Sonic Object Mapping
This chapter develops a practice of sonic object mapping - a way of listening to sound as real, autonomous objects that emerge, act, and withdraw. It...
From Reduction to Realism
This chapter critiques how sound has been reduced across different traditions - from vibration to perception to symbol. It argues for understanding...
Beyond Human Ears
An interlude exploring how sound exists beyond human perception. This chapter considers the acoustic worlds of other species - from bat echolocation...
Deleuze and the Encounter
This chapter explores Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of the encounter and how it applies to sound. It argues that sound arrives as an event and a force...
Finitude and Withdrawal
This chapter explores how speculative realism and object-oriented ontology provide frameworks for understanding sound as a real, autonomous object....
Against Manifestationism
The opening chapter of Sound Encounters, challenging the philosophical tradition that treats sound as dependent on perception. Starting with the...
Sound Encounters: Prelude
A prelude to Sound Encounters, setting up the book's central argument: that sound is a real, autonomous event - not just a perception, signal, or...
Vibrations After the Post-Digital
This thesis began with a question: what happens when digital sound stops feeling new? The post-digital doesn't reject the digital. It refuses to be...
Sonic Object Mapping
Two case studies from the post-digital field: Ryoji Ikeda's data.convex and the collaborative work 10'30. These pieces aren't analysed to reveal...
Post-Digital Music
What does it mean to compose with a system that stutters? With tools that crash, loop, mishear, or misfire? This chapter explores how post-digital...
The Post-Digital
The post-digital is not a historical period. It's not about moving beyond the digital or declaring its obsolescence. It describes a condition - one...
Technological Utopianism
The idea that technology leads naturally toward progress - aesthetic, social, or spiritual - is one of modernity's most persistent myths. This...
Post-Digital Aesthetics and Poietics
An introduction to post-digital aesthetics in computer music, reframed through vibrational materialism. This chapter establishes the thesis that...
Post-Digital Aesthetics: Preface
This revised edition marks a return - not to the text as it was, but to the questions that first animated it. Computer Music and Post-Digital...
Sound Politics and the Ontology of the Audible
If sound is real - if it vibrates, acts, and persists beyond perception - then its politics can't be separated from its ontology. This chapter...