Sound Affects

Sharon Jane Mee is Adjunct Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia.Luke Robinson is a PhD candidate and a casual academic in the School of Arts and Media, University of New South Wales, Australia.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements The Clatter and Clang of Sound Affects Sharon Jane Mee (University of New South Wales, Australia) and Luke Robinson (University of New South Wales, Australia)Part 1: Start, Stop, RepeatChapter 1. Silence Sandra Kazlauskaite (University of Lincoln, UK)Chapter 2. Shuffle Jim Drobnick (OCAD University, Canada) and Jennifer Fisher (York University, Canada)Chapter 3. Oriental Riff Runchao Liu (University of Denver, USA)Part 2: Voices and VocalsChapter 4. aa ee ii oo uuuuu Rachel Shearer (Te Wananga Aronui o Tamaki Makau Rau/Auckland University of Technology, Aotearoa New Zealand)Chapter 5. Sympathetic Response Charlotte Eubanks (Pennsylvania State University, USA)Chapter 6. Whispers Christian de Mouilpied Sancto (University of Rochester, USA)Chapter 7. Sing Katherine Nolan (Technological University Dublin, Ireland)Chapter 8. The Disembodied Voice Julius Greve (University of Oldenburg, Germany) Part 3: Threshold SoundsChapter 9. Tin/nyRob Garbutt (Southern Cross University, Australia)Chapter 10. VroomAndrija Filipovic (Singidunum University, Serbia)Chapter 11. ThumpAndrea Avidad (New York University, USA)Chapter 12: Buzz Sharon Jane Mee (University of New South Wales, Australia)Part 4: Beyond AudibilityChapter 13: Inaudible TremorsLuke Robinson (University of New South Wales, Australia)Chapter 14: DistortionGreg Hainge (University of Queensland, Australia)Chapter 15. FeedbackManuel ‘Mandel’ CabreraJr. (Yonsei University, South Korea)Chapter 16. Sub-bassAidan Delaney (Middlesex University, UK)Chapter 17. Squish, Squelch, ShlshlshlurppppNorie Neumark (Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne and La Trobe University, Australia)BibliographyMediographyContributorsIndex

We live in a saturated sonic envirornment. Noise is everywhere; and even at the extreme of absence, "silence is a rhythm too" (as the Slits once sang). Yet we rarely pay attention to the soundscape that accompanies us at all times. Sound Affects rectifies this omission, with seventeen essays about sound and how it touches and moves us. Topics range from rapping by Kanye West, to the noises made by urban traffic, to electronic distortions broadcast through gigantic speakers, to the barely audible squishes of worms crawling through the soil. All in all, this book brings us back to a heightened awareness of those aspects of existence that we tend, all too easily, to tune out.