A Philosophy of Ambient Sound : Materiality, Technology, Art and the Sonic Environment / Ulrik Schmidt.
Schmidt, Ulrik.
2023
B105.S59
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Title A Philosophy of Ambient Sound : Materiality, Technology, Art and the Sonic Environment / Ulrik Schmidt.
Author Schmidt, Ulrik.
ISBN 9789819917556 (electronic bk.)
9819917557
9789819917549
9819917549
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1755-6
Imprint Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 291 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-981-99-1755-6 doi
Call Number B105.S59
Dewey Decimal Classification 121.35
Summary This book presents the first book-length study of ambient sound as a key issue in sound studies and sonic philosophy. Taking a broad, media-philosophical approach, it explores ambient sound as a basic dimension of the sonic environment, sonic technologies, sonic arts and the material staging of listening. Through analyses of key concepts such as surroundability, mediatization, immanence, synthetization and continuous variation, the book elucidates how ambient aspects of sound influence our conceptions of what sound is and how it affects us by exposing sound⁰́b9s relation to basic categories such as space, time, environment, medium and materiality. It also illuminates how the strategic production of ambient sound constitutes a leading aesthetic paradigm that has been a decisive factor in the shaping of the modern sonic environment ⁰́b3 from key developments in experimental and popular music, sound art and cinematic sound design to the architectural-technological construction of listening spaces in concert halls and theaters and in current streaming infrastructures, digital surround sound and the everyday aesthetics of headphone listening.
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Bibliography, etc. Note Bibliography -- Bibliography -- Index
Bibliography -- 4: Field Effects -- Univocity and Consistency -- Ubiquity -- Immanence and Immersion -- Toward the Ground -- Groundlessness -- Continuous Variation -- Bibliography -- Part II: Strategies -- 5: Sonic Mediatization -- Environmentality Without Ecology -- What Is Mediatization? -- Mediation and Mediatization -- Acousmatics and Mediatization -- Medium Effects, Phonogeny and Mediatization -- Bibliography -- 6: Synthetic Strategies -- From Reproduction Sensibilities to Production Sensibilities -- Synthetic and Organic Matter -- Synthetic Sound and Technology -- Sound Masses
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Series Palgrave studies in sound.
Available in Other Form A Philosophy of Ambient Sound
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Intro
Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
1: Introduction
The 'Problem' of Ambient Sound
The Concept of Ambient Sound
Sonic Environmentality
Surroundability
Onto-aesthetics
Perspectives and Aims
Bibliography
Part I: Fields
2: Effects of Being-in
Toward a Material Morphology of Ambient Sound
Sound as Furniture
Centralization and Decentralization
Bibliography
3: Environmental and Surrounding Sounds
From Environmental to Surrounding Sounds
Objectivity and Environmentality
Objectlessness
The A-figurative Continuum

Generalized Pop
Bibliography
7: Ambient Sound Design
Sound Design and the Production of Audiovisual Immanence
The Sonic Environment in Classic Cinema
The Contemporary Audiovisual Scene
The Emancipation of Ambient Sound
Sonic Intensification of Audiovisual Space
Bibliography
Part III: Frames
8: Staging Ambient Listening
Technology and Listening
The Synthetic Production of the Listening Environment
The Double Mediality of Technological Listening
Staging the Ambient Listening Environment
Bibliography
9: Architectures of Acoustic Immanence

Mediatization of Acoustic Space
Enhanced Reverberation
Acousmatization and Mediatization of the Acoustic Interior
Anti-reverberatory Purification
Bibliography
10: Amplified Surrounds
Amplified Expansion and Centralization
Cinematic Surround Sound
Non-cinematic Surround Sound
Bibliography
11: Mobile Infrastructures of Everyday Listening
Headphone Bubbles and Their Surroundings
Inside the Cocoon
Infrastructures of Environmental Distribution
Streaming Infrastructures and Bubbles of Ubiquity
Bibliography
12: Epilogue: Generic, Inattentive, Asocial

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