Sonic Possible Worlds

Salomé Voegelin is Professor of Sound at the London College of Communication, UAL, UK. An artist and writer, she is the author of Listening to Noise and Silence (Bloomsbury, 2010) and The Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening (Bloomsbury, 2018).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: The Landscape as Sonic Possible WorldChapter 2: Into the World of the Work: The Possibility of Sound ArtChapter 3: Sonic Materialism: the Sound of StonesChapter 4: Hearing the Continuum of SoundChapter 5: Listening to the Inaudible: the Sound of UnicornsNotesBibliographyList of WorksIndex

Voegelin’s Sonic Possible Worlds is a rather provocative and challenging endeavor to take this necessary discussion to a high scholarly level without losing the connection with the art works themselves ... It should be compulsory reading for anyone interested in listening and the counterpart or supplement to new materialism, sonic materialism. Additionally, it is one of the few books which deals with both sound art and music, thus contributing not only to the discourse on sound studies but also offering new perspectives for musicologists.