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Sensing Sound
Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice
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Nina Sun Eidsheim
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English
Published/Copyright:
2016
About this book
Through an analysis of four contemporary operas, Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions of how we think about sound, music, and listening by challenging common assumptions about sound, freeing it from a constraining set of fixed concepts and meanings.
Author / Editor information
Nina Sun Eidsheim is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Reviews
"Even if we consider 'the voice' as a sound source, in an average personal imaginary ‘sound’ is something external, while 'the voice' is something internal and intimate. If we add to that the extreme power of language, it’s even harder to treat the voice as 'sound.' Eidsheim explores these contradictions in her book with knowledge and vision. Her theory of sound as a 'universal connection of entities,' for example, is simply enrapturing...."
-- Aurelio Cianciotta Neural
"Eidsheim’s formulation of music as vibrational practice engenders new ways of considering communication between singer and audience, environment and body, and animate and inanimate materials. ... Her work generates wide-ranging and pragmatic resonances for those interested in questions surrounding sound and multi-sensory experience."
-- Amy Skjerseth Theatre Research International
"[Eidsheim's] book invites readers to remember that music itself is a complex phenomenon better understood as an experience and practice of 'intermaterial vibration.'"
-- Cecilia Livingston Cambridge Opera Journal
“Sensing Sound is a captivating and rewarding book. Eidsheim’s ‘vibrational practice’ provides a liberating take on vocal sound, and one that can be applied not only to singing and listening, but to many dimensions of sensory experience.”
-- Rebecca Lentjes Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies
“No doubt [Sensing Sound] will become required reading in many academic disciplines that touch on voice studies.”
-- Marit MacArthur Yale Review
“Sensing Sound delivers a provocative theory of musical sonority—one that interrogates the participatory, material, and experiential dimensions of music-making in new and exciting ways. . . . Sensing Sound is sure to enliven music and sound studies research for years to come.”
-- Daniel Akira Stadnicki Intersections
“Eidsheim’s book is sensitive to bodies, attentive to physics, and mindful of encultured practices of listening and sounding. It is a much-needed meeting point for musicology, sound studies, philosophy of sound, performance studies, vocal pedagogy, and those interested in theorizing difference in music.”
-- Lucie Vágnerová Current Musicology
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
November 19, 2015
eBook ISBN:
9780822374695
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
288
Other:
28 illustrations
eBook ISBN:
9780822374695
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
