Soundtracks of Climate Change

Alexis Bennet is Lecturer in Music at Goldsmiths University of London, UK. He is reviews editor of Music, Sound, and the Moving Image. He is also a composer and performer.Annette Davison is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Edinburgh College of Art, UK. She is the author of several monographs and co-editor of edited volumes on audiovisual media including The Sounds of the Silents in Britain (2013) and Hollywood Theory, Non-Hollywood Practice: Cinema Soundtracks in the 1980s and 1990s (2017). She is on the editorial boards of American Music; Music, Sound and the Moving Image; and the Journal of Film Music.John Richardson is Professor of Art History, Musicology and Media Studies at University of Turku, Finland. He is the author of Singing Archaeology: Philip Glass’s Akhnaten (1999) and An Eye for Music: Popular Music and the Audiovisual Surreal (2012). He co-edited several collections, including Essays on Sound and Vision (2007), The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics (2013), and The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media (2013).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsIntroductionAlexis Bennett & John RichardsonPart 1: IndustryScreen Greenwashing: Audiovisual Imaginaries of Norwegian Oil Tore Størvold & Julia Leyda, (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)Monophonies of Extraction: Listening with Lithium in Contemporary ArtLutz Koepnick (Vanderbilt University, Nashville)Transitioning Energies: from AAA to Indie GamesMartin Schauss (University of Glasgow)Part 2: CatastropheSonic Allegories of Ecological Disaster in Chrono Trigger: An Ecogame PerspectiveLasse Lehtonen (University of Helsinki) Don’t Look Up: Or, How I Learned to Start Worrying and Love the Film Ellen Moore (University of Washington Tacoma)Playing with Fire (and Other Natural Disasters): The Sounds of Climate Change in Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Gathering Storm Karen M. Cook (University of Hartford)Part 3: ActivismThe Sound of the Tipping Point: Once You Know (Une fois que tu sais)Alexis Bennett (Goldsmiths, University of London)Poetics of Activism in Climate Crisis Documentaries: Listening to Indigenous VoicesMatthias Grotkopp, Yvonne Pfeilschifter & Janine Leona Schleicher (Freie Universität Berlin)Field Recording, Location Sound, and Climate ChangeBudhaditya Chattopadhyay (Critical Media Lab, Basel)Playing and Listening as Environmental Action in Alba: A Wildlife Adventure Kate Galloway (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York)ReferencesIndex