Tag: sound

Sound Encounters: Prelude

This book began with a discomfort I couldn't quite name. It came as a low hum - a residue left behind by texts that spoke of sound...

Against manifestationism

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? This question - so often disregarded as a thought...

Finitude and withdrawal

To say that sound is real is a challenge to more than physics or metaphor. It questions a metaphysical tradition that privileges...

Deleuze and the encounter

Sound is unstable. It moves too quickly to be seen, too forcefully to be ignored. It arrives as event. As force. Deleuze's philosophy...

Interlude: Beyond human ears

If Deleuze helps us rethink sound as encounter, listening beyond the human expands the sonic encounter further - beyond ourselves. A...

From reduction to realism

The dominant traditions - scientific, philosophical, aesthetic - have each trimmed sound down to something manageable. Something...

Sonic object mapping

If sonic objects are real, if they emerge, act, and withdraw, then how do we listen to them as things - as forces - that shape the...

The politics of sound

If sound is real, it must be accounted for. And accounting cannot happen outside politics. A sonic realism worth defending must go...

Toward a sonic realism

No theory of sound should move forward without turning its head. This chapter stages that turn: a more critical listening to what has...

Practising realism

To theorise sonic realism is to affirm sound's capacity to exceed, withdraw, resonate. Theory alone does not suffice. Sonic realism is...

Coda: Encountering sound

There's a sound you remember, but you can't place. Not a melody. Not a word. More like a texture. A pressure in the air. It arrives...