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Episodes in the transformation of our understanding of sound and
space, from binaural listening in the nineteenth century to
contemporary sound art. The relationship between sound and space
has become central to both creative practices in music and sound
art and contemporary scholarship on sound. Entire subfields have
emerged in connection to the spatial aspects of sound, from spatial
audio and sound installation to acoustic ecology and soundscape
studies. But how did our understanding of sound become spatial? In
Stereophonica, Gascia Ouzounian examines a series of historical
episodes that transformed ideas of sound and space, from the advent
of stereo technologies in the nineteenth century to visual
representations of sonic environments today. Developing a uniquely
interdisciplinary perspective, Ouzounian draws on both the history
of science and technology and the history of music and sound art.
She investigates the binaural apparatus that allowed
nineteenth-century listeners to observe sound in three dimensions;
examines the development of military technologies for sound
location during World War I; revisits experiments in stereo sound
at Bell Telephone Laboratories in the 1930s; and considers the
creation of optimized acoustical environments for theaters and
factories. She explores the development of multichannel spatial
music in the 1950s and sound installation art in the 1960s;
analyzes the mapping of soundscapes; and investigates contemporary
approaches to sonic urbanism, sonic practices that reimagine urban
environments through sound. Rich in detail but accessible and
engaging, and generously illustrated with photographs, drawings,
maps, and diagrams of devices and artworks, Stereophonica brings an
acute, imaginative, and much-needed historical sensibility to the
growing literature around sound and space.
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DNA #21: Sound - Space - Sense
Detlef Diederichsen, Arno Raffeiner, Jan St. Werner; Text written by J P Caron, Diana Deutsch, …
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