Sounds in translation : intersections of music, technology and society /

"Sounds in Translation: Intersections of music, technology and society joins a growing number of publications taking up R. Murray Schafer's challenge to examine and to re-focus attention on the sound dimensions of our human environment. This book takes up his challenge to contemporary audi...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Chan, Amy, Noble, Alistair
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, 2009.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:"Sounds in Translation: Intersections of music, technology and society joins a growing number of publications taking up R. Murray Schafer's challenge to examine and to re-focus attention on the sound dimensions of our human environment. This book takes up his challenge to contemporary audiologists, musicologists and sound artists working within areas of music, cultural studies, media studies and social science to explore the idea of the 'soundscape' and to investigate the acoustic environment that we inhabit. It seeks to raise questions regarding the translative process of sound: 1) what happens to sound during the process of transfer and transformation; and 2) what transpires in the process of sound production/expression/performance. Sounds in Translation was conceived to take advantage of new technology and a development in book publishing, the electronic book. Much of what is written in the book is best illustrated by the sound itself, and in that sense, permits sound to 'speak for itself'."--Publisher's description.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
ISBN:9781921536557
1921536551