Sound at the Edge of Perception: The Aural Minutiae of Sand and Other Worldly Murmurings by Street, Seán

Sound at the Edge of Perception: The Aural Minutiae of Sand and Other Worldly Murmurings (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789811316128)

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Sound at the Edge of Perception: The Aural Minutiae of Sand and Other Worldly Murmurings by Street, Seán

Sound at the Edge of Perception: The Aural Minutiae of Sand and Other Worldly Murmurings

$59.99
Sound at the Edge of Perception: The Aural Minutiae of Sand and Other Worldly Murmurings by Street, Seán

Sound at the Edge of Perception: The Aural Minutiae of Sand and Other Worldly Murmurings

$59.99
Format: Hardcover
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This book is about the tiny sounds of the world, and listening to them, the minute signals that are clues to who and where we are. A very small sound, given the context of its history, becomes hugely significant, and even an imagined sound in a picture becomes almost a voice. By speaking a name, we give a person back to the world, and a breath, a sigh, a laugh or a cry need no language. A phoneme is the start of all stories, and were we able to tune ourselves to the subtleties of the natural world, we might share the super-sensitivity of members of the bird and animal kingdom to sense the message in the apparent silence. Mind hears sound when it perceives an image; the book will appeal to sonic and radio practitioners, students of sound, those working in the visual arts, and creative writers.

Author: Seán Street
ISBN-10: 9811316120
ISBN-13: 9789811316128
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Language: English
Published: 07/25/2018
Pages: 138
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.44d
By Seán Street
By Seán Street
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Seán Street is Emeritus Professor of Radio at Bournemouth University, UK. Previous books include The Poetry of Radio, The Memory of Sound and Sound Poetics. As a poet, he has published nine collections, the most recent being Camera Obscura, and has edited an anthology of poems about radio, entitled Radio Waves.

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