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...