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020 a| 9781441149725 (hardcover : alk. paper);

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050 00 a| ML3820b| .T66 2010;

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100 1 a| Toop, David.=| ^A188860;

245 10 a| Sinister resonance :b| the mediumship of the listener /c| David Toop.;

260 a| New York :b| Continuum,c| 2010.;

300 a| xv, 256 pages ;c| 23 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Prelude: distant music -- Aerial: notes toward a history of listening. Drowned by voices ; Each echoing opening, each muffled closure ; Dark senses ; Writhing sigla ; The jagged dog -- Vessels and volumes. Act of silence ; Art of silence ; A conversation piece -- Spectral. Chair creaks, but no one sits there -- Interior resonance. Snow falling on snow -- Coda: distant music.;

520 a| This book begins with the premise that sound is a haunting, a ghost, a presence whose location is ambiguous and whose existence is transitory. The intangibility of sound is uncanny--a phenomenal presence in the head, at its point of source and all around. The close listener is like a medium who draws out substance from that which is not entirely there. The history of listening must be constructed from the narratives of myth and fiction, 'silent' arts such as painting, the resonance of architecture, auditory artefacts and nature. In such contexts, sound often functions as a metaphor for mystical revelation, forbidden desires, formlessness, the unknown, and the unconscious. As if reading a map of hitherto unexplored territory, this book deciphers sounds and silences buried within the ghostly horrors of Arthur Machen, Shirley Jackson, Charles Dickens, M.R. James and Edgar Allen Poe, Dutch genre painting from Rembrandt to Vermeer, artists as diverse as Francis Bacon and Juan Munoz, and the writing of many modernist authors including Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, and James Joyce.;

650 0 a| Musicx| Physiological effect.=| ^A23628;

650 0 a| Auditory perception.=| ^A1391;

650 0 a| Musical perception.=| ^A376516;

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Sinister resonance : the mediumship of the listener / David Toop.

Author/creator	Toop, David
Format	Book
Publication Info	New York : Continuum, 2010.
Description	xv, 256 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects	Music--Physiological effect. Auditory perception. Musical perception.

Contents	Prelude: distant music -- Aerial: notes toward a history of listening. Drowned by voices ; Each echoing opening, each muffled closure ; Dark senses ; Writhing sigla ; The jagged dog -- Vessels and volumes. Act of silence ; Art of silence ; A conversation piece -- Spectral. Chair creaks, but no one sits there -- Interior resonance. Snow falling on snow -- Coda: distant music.
Abstract	This book begins with the premise that sound is a haunting, a ghost, a presence whose location is ambiguous and whose existence is transitory. The intangibility of sound is uncanny--a phenomenal presence in the head, at its point of source and all around. The close listener is like a medium who draws out substance from that which is not entirely there. The history of listening must be constructed from the narratives of myth and fiction, 'silent' arts such as painting, the resonance of architecture, auditory artefacts and nature. In such contexts, sound often functions as a metaphor for mystical revelation, forbidden desires, formlessness, the unknown, and the unconscious. As if reading a map of hitherto unexplored territory, this book deciphers sounds and silences buried within the ghostly horrors of Arthur Machen, Shirley Jackson, Charles Dickens, M.R. James and Edgar Allen Poe, Dutch genre painting from Rembrandt to Vermeer, artists as diverse as Francis Bacon and Juan Munoz, and the writing of many modernist authors including Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, and James Joyce.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2009047734
ISBN	9781441149725 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	1441149724 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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