Wild Track

Sound, Text and the Idea of Birdsong

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvSeán Street,UK) Street, Dr. Sean (Emeritus Professor of Radio, Bournemouth University,Seán

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PROSE AWARDS ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE FINALIST 2024Wild Track is an exploration of birdsong and the ways in which that sound was conveyed, described and responded to through text, prior to the advent of recording and broadcast technologies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Street links sound aesthetics, radio, natural history, and literature to explore how the brain and imagination translate sonic codes as well as the nature of the silent sound we "hear" when we read a text. This creates an awareness of sound through the tuned attention of the senses, learning from sound texts of the natural world that sought – and seek – to convey the intensity of the sonic moment and fleeting experience. To absorb these lessons is to enable a more highly interactive relationship with sound and listening, and to interpret the subtleties of audio as a means of expression and translation of the living world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-02-20
Mått148 x 228 x 16 mm
Vikt344 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501397981

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Prelude1. Dawn Chorus: Describing Sound2. Recording an Essence: Hearing, Reading and the Imagination3. Ludwig Koch and the Music of Nature4. Murmurings: Call and Response Between Bird and Human5. Paths Through the Green Wood6. Science in Arcadia: The Road to Selborne7. The Romantic Poetry of Listening8. Honest John: The Sound World of John Clare9. North American Sublime10. Survival and the Sound of Spirit11. Listening to Ourselves Listening: Voices for Today and TomorrowPostludeBibliographyIndex

In the rarified world of film and television sound a ‘wildtrack’ is a non-synchronous recording not connected directly to an image. Seán Street has re-imagined the term in this book and guided the reader/listener from times when sound was ‘recorded’ solely through experience and then replayed from memory, imagination, poetry and prose. Wild Track engages us with an impressive cast list of artists and their creative works, speaking clearly across time and harnessing text with the developing role of technology to create a narrative flow as affecting as a woodland chorus in spring.