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...
Against Manifestationism
The opening chapter of Sound Encounters, challenging the philosophical tradition that treats sound as dependent on perception. Starting with the...
Finitude and Withdrawal
This chapter explores how speculative realism and object-oriented ontology provide frameworks for understanding sound as a real, autonomous object....
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...
Beyond Human Ears
An interlude exploring how sound exists beyond human perception. This chapter considers the acoustic worlds of other species - from bat echolocation...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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,...
Encountering Sound
The coda to Sound Encounters, reflecting on how sounds persist in memory and experience. This closing chapter considers the lingering presence of...