Salomé Voegelin is Professor of Sound at the London College of Communication, UAL. An artist and writer, she is also the author of Sonic Possible Worlds: Hearing the Continuum of Sound (Bloomsbury, 2014) and The Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening (Bloomsbury, 2018).

High-level theory that will appeal to the sonic arts / experimental music crowd

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part one Listening

Being Honeyed

To Listen

Dynamic Things and Places

Critique of a Remote Critic

Listening to the Soundscape Recorded

Listening to the Radio

Conclusion: Sonic Solitude

Part two Noise

Bad Taste

Noisy Non-Sense

How can you hear it when you do not know what you are listening for? - Noise and Modernism

Noise and Postmodernism

Sonic Noise

Conclusion: Noisy Voices

Part three Silence

Conceptual Silence

When there is nothing to hear you start hearing things

The silent "I"/ Sonic Subjectivity

Crickets

Silent Duration

Symbolic, Semiotic and Social Sound

Moments of Coincidence

Radiophonic Silence

Conclusion: Silence as Context of Auditory Aesthetics

Part four Time and Space

Sitting in Rooms

Resonating Places; Sounding Time

Geography of Timespace

Inhabiting a Playfull Agonism

Building Sonic Bridges and Towns

A Sonic Sensibility for New Media Art

Narrating temporal places/ migration

The Timespace of Radio

Conclusion: Into the Now of Listening

Part five Now

Sonic Pasts: an Afterthought

Perception and Sensation

Sound as 'Pathetic Trigger'

The Duration of Perception

The Refrain of Now

Bibliography

List of Works

Notes

Index