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• Title:Sound unseen : acousmatic sound in theory and practice / Brian Kane.
  
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• Author/Creator:Kane, Brian, 1973-
  
• Published/Created:New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: ML3805 .K15 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Music--Acoustics and physics.
  Musique concrète--History and criticism.
  Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
  
• Description:xii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:"Sound coming from outside the field of vision, from somewhere beyond, holds a privileged place in the Western imagination. When separated from their source, sounds seem to manifest transcendent realms, divine powers, or supernatural forces. According to legend, the philosopher Pythagoras lectured to his disciples from behind a veil, and two thousand years later, in the age of absolute music, listeners were similarly fascinated with disembodied sounds, employing various techniques to isolate sounds from their sources. With recording and radio came spatial and temporal separation of sounds from sources, and new ways of composing music."--book jacket.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-291) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780199347841 (hardback)
  0199347840 (hardback)
  9780199347872 (online content)
  
• Contents:Pierre Schaeffer, the sound object and the acousmatic reduction
  Myth and the origin of the Pythagorean veil
  The baptism of the acousmate
  Acousmatic phantasmagoria and the problem of technê
  Kafka and the ontology of acousmatic sound
  The acousmatic voice
  Acousmatic fabrications : Les Paul and the 'Les Paulverizer'.