Geosonics

Joshua Dittrich teaches creative non-fiction and media studies at the Institute for Communication, Culture, Information & Technology at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, Canada. He holds a PhD in German Studies from Cornell University, USA, and a PhD in Communication & Culture from York University, Canada. His work has appeared in journals such as Substance, Intermedialities, Ethnologies, and New German Critique, as well as the edited volume Utopia: The Avant-garde, Modernism and (Im)possible Life, part of the European Avant-Garde and Modernism Series.

• Introduction1. From Geosonics to Geosonicks2. The Sound Beneath Our Feet: Earthquakes and Ear Quakes3. A Planet Made of Beethoven: Audio-Stretching, Transductive Listening and 24/7 Aesthetics4. Now You See It… : Hearing Colors and Picturing Soundscapes5. Sound Asleep: Sleeping, Listening, and the Politics of Nonconscious Experience6. Listening from Outer Space: Sun Ra’s Reverberant GeologyAfterwordBibliographyNotesIndex

Geosonics takes us to unheard-of aural worlds. From earthquakes to timestretching, from sleep music to Afrofuturism – each chapter is brimming with fresh and provocative ideas. Joshua Dittrich dissects vibrations and fuses frequencies, he takes apart the process of listening and builds it together again, and sensitizes our ears to the challenges of our times.