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Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener

Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener

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Availability:In StockContributor:David ToopPublish date:2011-10-20Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:ContinuumISBN-13:9781441155870ISBN-10:1441155872UPC:9781441155870Book Category:Music, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Instruction & Study, History & Criticism, AestheticsBook Topic:AppreciationSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCF1XP9MFY

Sinister Resonance begins with the premise that sound is a haunting, a ghost, a presence whose location is ambiguous and whose existence is transitory. The intangibility of sound is uncanny - a phenomenal presence in the head, at its point of source and all around. The close listener is like a medium who draws out substance from that which is not entirely there.

The history of listening must be constructed from the narratives of myth and fiction, 'silent' arts such as painting, the resonance of architecture, auditory artefacts and nature. In such contexts, sound often functions as a metaphor for mystical revelation, forbidden desires, formlessness, the unknown, and the unconscious. As if reading a map of hitherto unexplored territory, Sinister Resonance deciphers sounds and silences buried within the ghostly horrors of Arthur Machen, Shirley Jackson, Charles Dickens, M.R. James and Edgar Allen Poe, Dutch genre painting from Rembrandt to Vermeer, artists as diverse as Francis Bacon and Juan Munoz, and the writing of many modernist authors including Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, and James Joyce.
Language:EnglishPublisher:ContinuumISBN-13:9781441155870ISBN-10:1441155872UPC:9781441155870Book Category:Music, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Instruction & Study, History & Criticism, AestheticsBook Topic:AppreciationSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCF1XP9MFY

David Toop is a musician, writer, and sound curator. His acclaimed books include Rap Attack, Ocean of Sound, Exotica, and Haunted Weather. His writing has also appeared in The Wire, Bookforum, and the New York Times. He lives in London.


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