Sonic Possible Worlds, Revised Edition

Salomé Voegelin is Professor of Sound at the London College of Communication, UAL, UK. An artist and writer, she is the author of Listening to Noise and Silence (Bloomsbury, 2010) and The Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening (Bloomsbury, 2018).

Salomé Voegelin is a brilliant and subtle thinker about sound and music, so Sonic Possible Worlds: Hearing the Continuum of Sound, Revised Edition is a deeply explored and essential study of the necessity of listening, of openly absorbing what sound tells us of our shared world, listening which gives us access to the fluid nature of relationships and connections, to the interactive web of the world and our participation in it through awareness of this 'complex continuity' and of ourselves inextricably enmeshed within it.Salomé Voegelin generously maps many ways of practicing listening to sonic worlds and of sharing access to the ever-expanding “possible world” of sound-life, then goes further, leaping beyond our physical and conceptual limits, diving into sound we cannot hear but which affects us, becoming part of our apprehensible world and of our learning how to live within it.

• Introduction1. The Landscape as Sonic Possible World2. Into the World of the Work: The Possibility of Sound Art3. Sonic Materialism: the Sound of Stones4. Hearing the Continuum of Sound5. Listening to the Inaudible: the Sound of Unicorns6. Possible and Impossible BodiesNotes Bibliography List of worksIndex