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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.
Contents
Introduction. Closed Grooves, Open Ears / James A. Steintrager vii
Preface to the French Edition of 2010 xxvii
I. Hearing
1. Listening Awakes 3
2. The Ear 16
3. Sound and Time 29
II. A Divided World
4. Voice, Language, and Sounds 45
5. Noise and Music: A Legitimate Distinction? 55
III. The Wheel of Causes
6. The Sound That You Cause: Ergo-Audition 83
7. Sounds and Its Cause: Casual Listening and Figurative Listening 101
8. Sound and What It Causes: Real and Supposed Effects 121
IV. Sound Transformed
9. How Technology Has Changed Sound 131
10. The Audiovisual Couple in Film: Audio-Vision 150
V. Listening, Expressing
11. Object and Non-Object: Two Poles 169
12. Between Doing and Listening: Naming 212
Notes 243
Glossary 265
Bibliography 269
Index 275
