Experiencing Sound

Lawrence Kramer is Distinguished Professor of English and Music at Fordham University. He is the author of fifteen previous books, including The Thought of Music, The Hum of the World, and Music and the Forms of Life. He is also an award-winning composer whose works have been performed throughout the United States and Europe.

“In Experiencing Sound, Lawrence Kramer captures all sorts of heard moments, and in superb prose. . . . Rarely has the mixture of music and sound been so eagerly explored."

• ContentsPreface Introduction 1. June 24, 2019: The Wind on Mars 2. Listening for the Llamas 3. Auditory Epiphanies 4. Sound and World 5. Listening to Silence 6. Calm Sea: Going Nowhere, Hearing Nothing 7. Prisons of Silence 8. Just One Sound 9. Song and Sound 10. Already Music 11. Coming Alive 12. The Vocal Telegraph 13. The Ravished Ear 14. Campaniles 15. Cannonades 16. Soundless Hearing 17. The Talking Dead 18. From Sounds to Sound 19. Fictitious Sounds 20. Bells 21. Dis/Embodiment 22. Threads 23. Playback 24. Shorthand 25. Poems to Music 26. Grooves 27. Grooves II: Spacing 28. Beyond Analogy 29. Phonogram and Gramophone 30. Forest Murmurs 31. Epithet 32. Mesmerizing Sound 33. Cathay 34. Night. A Street. No Lamps. 35. The Resonating Cure 36. The Voice of Language 37. Nocturne. Another City. 38. Annals of Slavery: A Violin 39. The Grammar of Uncertainty 40. Aftersounds41. Persistence of Hearing 42. Annals of Slavery II: A Vigil 43. A Voice in a Box 44. The Contralto Mystique: Intercession 45. The Contralto Mystique II: Departure 46. Two Lynchings 47. “White Christmas”: Saigon, 1975 48. The Ghetto: New York, 1904 49. Testimony 50. Voice 51. Inner Speech 52. The Deafness of Narcissus 53. Sound in the Making 54. Housewarming 55. Language Dead or Alive 56. Hearing Plato’s Cave 57. Speaking and Being 58. Minding the Senses 59. LP: Longplayer 60. Harmonies of the World 61. Uneven Measures 62. Sound, Finitude, Music 63. The Shards of the Infinite 64. A Passing Synthesis 65. Aeolian Visitations 66. Harmonizing Notes Index

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   Reflektioner över ett "tystat" ämne!

   Lawrence Kramer kastar ljus över erfarenheterna/upplevelserna av ljud och musik som gör att man som läsare lyssnar mer uppmärksammat. Det finns spår av ljud överallt, även när vi inte tänker på det eller hör ljuden. Därtill, det är en språkligt ekvilibristisk samling fragment. Läs ett i taget, eller två. Bläddra, börja baklänges. Läs och lyssna!

   Mats A

   20 september 2024