What makes a body of sound appear as an aesthetic object as well as a method for knowledge? In Sounding Bodies Sounding Worlds, Mickey Vallee argues that we must impose our sonic imagination onto the non-sonic, and embrace how we sound to ourselves, sound with our animal companions, and sound in very earth itself. From the invention of the laryngoscope to the role of the spectrogram, from the call of the bird to the tumble of a rockslide, from the deep listening of environmental immersion to the computational listening of bioacoustics research, Vallee offers a wide range of cases to convincingly argue that all life shares in a continuous, embodied and ethical vibration.

Breaks new ground by proposing a new, interdisciplinary theorization of sound based on a number of studies within the broad area of environment studies and acoustic ecology Highly original and innovative by marking out new territory in theorizing our sonic understanding of the world Highlights the divergence between scientific acoustic measurement, and thus interpretation, of the environment and current, accepted cultural theories to do with listening, experience, and embodiment An interdisciplinary work which effectively engages with scholars, researchers in public engagement, the public and citizen scientists

Autorentext

Mickey Vallee teaches in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies at Athabasca University, where he holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Community, Identity and Digital Media.

Inhalt
Chapter 1 Introduction - Sounding.- Chapter 2 Sounding Voice.- Chapter 3 Sounding Between Bodies.- Chapter 4 Sounding Ecologies.- Chapter 5 Sounding Data.- Chapter 6 Sounding Place.- Chapter 7 Conclusion - Sounding Worlds.