Salome Voegelin is Senior Lecturer in Sound Arts and Design at the London College of Communication. An artist and writer, her work has been shown in the UK and mainland Europe.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part one Listening; Part two Noise; Part three Silence; Part four Time and Space; Part five Now; Bibliography; List of Works; Notes; Index.

The examples under discussion range from by-now canonical soundworks...to recent works by a clutch of lesser known artists...Voegelin's critical style is so singular that she avoids cliche in the treatment of all these artists, prising them out of a conversation about music and into a challenging treatise on the art of listening.

Salome Voegelin is Senior Lecturer in Sound Arts and Design at the London College of Communication. An artist and writer, her work has been shown in the UK and mainland Europe.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part one Listening; Part two Noise; Part three Silence; Part four Time and Space; Part five Now; Bibliography; List of Works; Notes; Index.

The examples under discussion range from by-now canonical soundworks...to recent works by a clutch of lesser known artists...Voegelin's critical style is so singular that she avoids cliche in the treatment of all these artists, prising them out of a conversation about music and into a challenging treatise on the art of listening.

Salome Voegelin is Senior Lecturer in Sound Arts and Design at the London College of Communication. An artist and writer, her work has been shown in the UK and mainland Europe.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part one Listening; Part two Noise; Part three Silence; Part four Time and Space; Part five Now; Bibliography; List of Works; Notes; Index.

The examples under discussion range from by-now canonical soundworks...to recent works by a clutch of lesser known artists...Voegelin's critical style is so singular that she avoids cliche in the treatment of all these artists, prising them out of a conversation about music and into a challenging treatise on the art of listening.