Sound Works

A Cultural Theory of Sound Design

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvHolger Schulze

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What is sound design? What is its function in the early 21st century and into the future?Sound Works examines these questions in four parts: Part 1, "Why This Sound?", presents an overview of the modern history of sound design. Part 2 is highly visual and provides a glance onto a sound designer's workbench and the current state of "Sonic Labor." Part 3 uses cultural analysis to explore our contemporary "Living with Sounds." The final and fourth part then proposes a series of anthropological and political interpretations of how “Sound Works” today.This book is not a manual on sound design; it instead argues for a cultural theory of sound design for sound designers and sound artists, for clients who commission a sound design and for researchers in the fields of sound studies, design research, and cultural studies

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Utgivningsdatum2019-04-04
Mått178 x 254 x 19 mm
Vikt689 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501330223

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PrefaceAcknowledgementsPart 1. Why That Sound?: Annoyance and Excitement by Design1. Working2. Consuming3. Suffering4. JoyPart 2. Sonic Labor: Statements, Situations, and CasesWith illustrations by Julia Krause5. Location and Apparatus6. Skills and Habits7. Conflicts and Heuristics8. Portfolio and PresentationsPart 3. Living With Sound: The Semiotics and Mediology of Sonic SignsWritten in collaboration with Carla J. Maier9. Signifying Sounds10. Situated Signalling11. Transmitting Sounds12. Transcultural AuralityPart 4. Sound Works: A Cultural Theory of Sound Design13. The Silencing Dispositive14. The Economy of Sound15. The Panacoustic Society16. The Sonic CapitalReferencesIndex

By wondering how to do things with sounds, this book opens a thorough and complex design theory of functional sounds. But rather than remaining confined to a strict design theory, this groundbreaking work summons some of the most recent and promising contributions of the social sciences, whether it be mediology or anthropology, semiotics or economics, critical or political theory, cultural or postcolonial studies. Without a doubt, this book is going to become an indispensable reference for those interested in everyday sounds.