Sonic virtuality : sound as emergent perception /

This title introduces the concept of sonic virtuality, a theory of sound that positions it as an emergent perception within a framework of virtuality. In its opposition to the acoustic or standard definition of sound, that sound is a sound wave, the thesis builds its case for a sonic aggregate as th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grimshaw, Mark, 1963-
Other Authors: Garner, Tom (Tom Alexander)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Defining sound
  • Where is sound? Where am I?
  • Embodied acoustic ecology
  • Knowledge, certainty, truth, belief, and alief
  • Imagining sound : auditory hallucinations and other pathologies
  • Imagining sound : active imagination and imaginative application
  • Sonic virtuality
  • Using sonic virtuality.