The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination

The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination
ISBN-10
0190460164
ISBN-13
9780190460167
Series
The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination
Category
Music
Pages
880
Language
English
Published
2019
Publisher
Oxford Handbooks
Authors
Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard, Mads Walther-Hansen, Martin Knakkergaard

Description

Whether social, cultural, or individual, the act of imagination always derives from a pre-existing context. For example, we can conjure an alien's scream from previously heard wildlife recordings or mentally rehearse a piece of music while waiting for a train. This process is no less true forthe role of imagination in sonic events and artifacts. Many existing works on sonic imagination tend to discuss musical imagination through terms like compositional creativity or performance technique. In this two-volume Handbook, contributors address this tendency head-on, correcting the currentbias towards visual imagination to instead highlight the many forms of sonic and musical imagination. Topics covered include auditory imagery and the neurology of sonic imagination; aural hallucination and illusion; use of metaphor in the recording studio; the projection of acoustic imagination inarchitectural design; and the design of sound artifacts for cinema and computer games.

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