In this poetic exploration of the auditory imagination, the third in his series on sonic aesthetics, Seán Street peoples silence with sound, travelling through time and space to the distant past, the infinite future and the shadow lands of the inner psyche. Our mind is a canvas on which the colours of the sound world leave permanent impressions. It is the root of all listening.

Presents a unique analysis of the human relationship to sound, where it serves as a bridge between the world and our senses. Shows how we 'read' the world through sound, and that everything from the printed word to landscapes and specific places, be they urban, rural or maritime are texts that evoke a response within us. Written from the standpoint of a poet and practising broadcaster with a particular interest and reputation in the making of impressionistic radio documentary features, particularly for the BBC.

Autorentext
Seán Street is a writer, poet and broadcaster on the subject of radio history and aesthetics. The previous two books in this trilogy are Sound Poetics and Sound at the Edge of Perception, both published by Palgrave Macmillan. He is emeritus professor at Bournemouth University, UK.

Inhalt
1 Silence Awaiting Sound: the Space of the Imagination.- 2 Fencing the Horizon: Sound as an Imaginative Event.- 3 The Sounds the Ghosts Knew: Imaginative Remembering of the Past.- 4 The Music of Where We Are: How Place Shapes Sound.- 5 Through Storm and Stone: Radio, Sound and the Imagined World.- 6 Sounds of Shadows and Light: Science Fiction and the Supernatural.- 7 Remembered Voices, Pictured Lives: the Sound of Recollection.- 8 The Singing of Statues: How Art Sounds.- 9 Writing Aloud: The Sound of Voices on Page and Screen.- 10 Full of Noises: The Sound Map of Self.