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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Author; Chapter 1: Introduction: Listening Through the Body; Introductory Thoughts; Somatechnics as Theoretical Tool and Mode of Apprehension; Bodymind: Thinking About the Body; Why Popular Music and Somatechnics?; Sticky Listening: How to Talk About Pleasure and Listening; Chapter Outline; Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 2: Materiality, the Bodymind, and Music Listening; Introduction; Sensorial Somatechnics; Narrativizing the Relationship Between Listening Pleasure and Materiality; The Emergence of Vinyl as a Way of Knowing
Cassette Culture and a 'Sense' of ControlThe Compact Disc, Mobile Music and Proprioception; The Discourse of Authenticity: Materiality as a Discursive Construct; 'Libidinal Energization of the Commodity'; Memory and Ownership; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Liveness in the Age of Digitization; Somatechnics and Live Music; Stiegler's Technics of Time: Constructing the Live in the Field of the Now; Dance and Disintegration in the Land of the Now; Somatechnics and Extreme Vocality: The Voice, Vibration and Liveness; The Technics of the Camera Phone in the Live Experience
Somatechnics of Social Listening: Pulling the Absent into the PresentConclusion; References; Chapter 4: Screen as Skin: The Somatechnics of Touchscreen Music Media; Introduction; Somatechnics as Conceptual Apparatus; Music Listening at the Border of the Human/Computer Interface; Sartre and the Erotics of Touch as Possession; Haptics: The 'Touchy-Feely' World of Mobile Music; Music Players as Sex Toys: I'll Never Listen to the Black Eyed Peas in the Same Way Again; Grief and Loss in the World of Mobile Touchscreen Technology; Conclusion; References
Chapter 5: The 'Creative Listener:' Internet, Music, and the Computer-Bodymind SomatechnicIntroduction; Boundaries of the PCBM and the Creative Practice of 'Geolistening'; Creativity and Collective Consciousness with the PCBM; The Era of the Algorithm: Listening and Discovery with the PCBM; Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: Future Bodies, Future Music; Introduction; The Wave VR; Somatechnics of Virtual Social Bodies; The New Social Listening Bodymind as Constituted in TheWaveVR; Tripping with Friends in the Virtual Dance Club: Social Interactions as Constituted in TheWaveVR
The Somatechnics of Proprioception as Constituted in TheWaveVRProjection Mapping, Spatial Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality; The Monstrous Holographic: Bringing Back the Dead; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: Conclusion: Music as Somatechné; Introduction; Music as Somatechné; Concluding Remarks; References; Index
Cassette Culture and a 'Sense' of ControlThe Compact Disc, Mobile Music and Proprioception; The Discourse of Authenticity: Materiality as a Discursive Construct; 'Libidinal Energization of the Commodity'; Memory and Ownership; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Liveness in the Age of Digitization; Somatechnics and Live Music; Stiegler's Technics of Time: Constructing the Live in the Field of the Now; Dance and Disintegration in the Land of the Now; Somatechnics and Extreme Vocality: The Voice, Vibration and Liveness; The Technics of the Camera Phone in the Live Experience
Somatechnics of Social Listening: Pulling the Absent into the PresentConclusion; References; Chapter 4: Screen as Skin: The Somatechnics of Touchscreen Music Media; Introduction; Somatechnics as Conceptual Apparatus; Music Listening at the Border of the Human/Computer Interface; Sartre and the Erotics of Touch as Possession; Haptics: The 'Touchy-Feely' World of Mobile Music; Music Players as Sex Toys: I'll Never Listen to the Black Eyed Peas in the Same Way Again; Grief and Loss in the World of Mobile Touchscreen Technology; Conclusion; References
Chapter 5: The 'Creative Listener:' Internet, Music, and the Computer-Bodymind SomatechnicIntroduction; Boundaries of the PCBM and the Creative Practice of 'Geolistening'; Creativity and Collective Consciousness with the PCBM; The Era of the Algorithm: Listening and Discovery with the PCBM; Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: Future Bodies, Future Music; Introduction; The Wave VR; Somatechnics of Virtual Social Bodies; The New Social Listening Bodymind as Constituted in TheWaveVR; Tripping with Friends in the Virtual Dance Club: Social Interactions as Constituted in TheWaveVR
The Somatechnics of Proprioception as Constituted in TheWaveVRProjection Mapping, Spatial Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality; The Monstrous Holographic: Bringing Back the Dead; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: Conclusion: Music as Somatechné; Introduction; Music as Somatechné; Concluding Remarks; References; Index