Writing the Field Recording : Sound, Word, Environment /

Writing the Field Recording : Sound, Word, Environment / edited by Stephen Benson and Will Montgomery. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (viii, 279 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Writing the Field Recording; Preface Field; Part One Opening the Field; Chapter 1 Fields, Theory, Field Theory: John Berger and Manfred Werder Define a Field; Chapter 2 The Nondescript*; Chapter 3 Text-Score-Text; Part Two The Poetics of the Field; Chapter 4 Rubies Reddened by Rubies Reddening*; Chapter 5 Pitch of Inhabiting: Thoughts on the Practice of Sound, Poetry and Virno's 'Accustomed Place'*; Chapter 6 Druids Fielding Questions: Eva-Maria Houben, Emily Dickinson and Charles Ives* Chapter 7 Field Recording as Writing: John Berger, Peter Gizzi and Juliana SpahrPart Three The Field in Practice; Chapter 8 Bittern space, a siskin; Chapter 9 Disquiet*; Chapter 10 Hedges; Chapter 11 Stirrup Notes: Fragments on Listening*; Notes on Contributors; Index

The 11 essays collected here take the recent explosion of interest in field recordings as the point of departure for an investigation of the sound field in music and its relationship to literature and writing.



9781474406710 9781474406697 9781474406703

2018288375

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018880011 Uk


Music and literature--Analysis.
Field recordings.
Sound recordings.


Electronic Books.

PN3352 / .W758 2018