Sound – Space – Sense

Publication series Das Neue Alphabet (The New Alphabet), Volume 21
Editors: Detlef Diederichsen, Arno Raffeiner, Jan St. Werner
Publisher: Spector Books, Leipzig
ca. 90 pages, German and English edition
color illustrations, paperback with folded dust cover
ISBN DE: 978-3-95905-657-1
ISBN EN: 978-3-95905-658-8
Price: 10 €

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People perceive audio events in very different ways. There is still a great deal of uncertainty about the physics, biology, signifiers and unconscious processes on the basis of which auditory experiences are constructed. The book applies the methods of artistic research to convey a sense of how mental space, social practice and the direct experience of sound relate to each other and how connections are generated between these levels – a topology of resonances, reflections and vibrations in perpetual motion.

With contributions by J.-P. Caron and Patricia Reed, Diana Deutsch and Marc Matter, Tim Johnson, Vera Molnar, Gascia Ouzounian, Matana Roberts and David Grubbs as well as Paolo Thorsen-Nagel

Table of contents:

Introduction
Detlef Diederichsen, Arno Raffeiner, Jan St. Werner

Listening to Unencoded Worlds
J.-P. Caron and Patricia Reed

“A strange woman had entered the room and begun to sing”
Diana Deutsch and Marc Matter in Conversation

This somewhere that is still moving
Tim Johnson

View from the Balcony
Matana Roberts and David Grubbs in Conversation

Becoming Air: On Sonic Spatial Metaphysics
Gascia Ouzounian
To the contribution [PDF, 80 MB]

The Body as Sound, the Sound as Body
Paolo Thorsen-Nagel

With graphic works by Vera Molnar