Lawrence Kramer 
Experiencing Sound [EPUB ebook] 
The Sensation of Being

From the winds of Mars to a baby’s first laugh, a prolific philosopher-composer reflects on the profound imperative of sound in everyday life.

 

Experiencing Sound presents its subject as fundamental to all experience—sensation, perception, and understanding. Lawrence Kramer turns on its head the widespread notion that vision takes pride of place among the senses and demonstrates how paying attention to sound can transform how we make meaning out of experience.

 

Through a series of brief, lyrical forays, Kramer shows that sound, whether heard or unheard, is the object of a primary need and an essential component in the sensation of being alive and the perception of time. It is something that we may suffer—or be made to suffer—as well as enjoy. Like its predecessor 
The Hum of the World, this book ranges widely across music, philosophy, literature, art, media, and history, from classical antiquity to the present, as it invites us to experience sound anew.

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Contents


Preface 


Introduction 


1. June 24, 2019: The Wind on Mars 

2. Listening for the Llamas 

3. Auditory Epiphanies 

4. Sound and World 

5. Listening to Silence 

6. Calm Sea: Going Nowhere, Hearing Nothing 

7. Prisons of Silence 

8. Just One Sound 

9. Song and Sound 

10. Already Music 

11. Coming Alive 

12. The Vocal Telegraph 

13. The Ravished Ear 

14. Campaniles 

15. Cannonades 

16. Soundless Hearing 

17. The Talking Dead 

18. From Sounds to Sound 

19. Fictitious Sounds 

20. Bells 

21. Dis/Embodiment 

22. Threads 

23. Playback 

24. Shorthand 

25. Poems to Music 

26. Grooves 

27. Grooves II: Spacing 

28. Beyond Analogy 

29. Phonogram and Gramophone 

30. Forest Murmurs 

31. Epithet 

32. Mesmerizing Sound 

33. Cathay 

34. Night. A Street. No Lamps. 

35. The Resonating Cure 

36. The Voice of Language 

37. Nocturne. Another City. 

38. Annals of Slavery: A Violin 

39. The Grammar of Uncertainty 

40. Aftersounds

41. Persistence of Hearing 

42. Annals of Slavery II: A Vigil 

43. A Voice in a Box 

44. The Contralto Mystique: Intercession 

45. The Contralto Mystique II: Departure 

46. Two Lynchings 

47. “White Christmas”: Saigon, 1975 

48. The Ghetto: New York, 1904 

49. Testimony 

50. Voice 

51. Inner Speech 

52. The Deafness of Narcissus 

53. Sound in the Making 

54. Housewarming 

55. Language Dead or Alive 

56. Hearing Plato’s Cave 

57. Speaking and Being 

58. Minding the Senses 

59. LP: Longplayer 

60. Harmonies of the World 

61. Uneven Measures 

62. Sound, Finitude, Music 

63. The Shards of the Infinite 

64. A Passing Synthesis 

65. Aeolian Visitations 

66. Harmonizing 


Notes 

Index 

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Lawrence Kramer is Distinguished Professor of English and Music at Fordham University. He is the author of fifteen previous books, including The Thought of Music, The Hum of the World, and Music and the Forms of Life. He is also an award-winning composer whose works have been performed throughout the United States and Europe.