First published in French in 1998, revised in 2010, and appearing
here in English for the first time, Michel Chion's Sound addresses
the philosophical, interpretive, and practical questions that
inform our encounters with sound. Chion considers how cultural
institutions privilege some sounds above others and how spurious
distinctions between noise and sound guide the ways we hear and
value certain sounds. He critiques the tenacious tendency to
understand sounds in relation to their sources and advocates
"acousmatic" listening-listening without visual access to a sound's
cause-to disentangle ourselves from auditory habits and prejudices.
Yet sound can no more be reduced to mere perceptual phenomena than
encapsulated in the sciences of acoustics and physiology. As Chion
reminds us and explores in depth, a wide range of linguistic,
sensory, cultural, institutional, and media- and
technologically-specific factors interact with and shape sonic
experiences. Interrogating these interactions, Chion stimulates us
to think about how we might open our ears to new sounds, become
more nuanced and informed listeners, and more fully understand the
links between how we hear and what we do.
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