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Dear Members,
We are delighted to announce that our new featured content on Bloomsbury Music & Sound is live, exploring the subject of Sound and Space. This curated selection of 4 chapters from the Sound Studies Collection is now free to read online.
Explore the featured content here: https://bloomsburymusicandsound.com/featured-content
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The following topics are explored:
- Sound Installations: How does the space in which music is played recontextualise that music, changing the way it is interpreted and received by audiences? Read Jonathan Lacey's chapter, Sound Installations for the Production of Atmosphere as a Limited Field of Sounds from The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies to find out more (https://www.bloomsburymusicandsound.com/encyclopedia-chapter?docid=b-9781501338786&tocid=b-9781501338786-chapter18&pdfid=9781501338786.ch-018.pdf)
- Recording technology and the transience of live music: In his chapter The Studio as a Compositional Tool, from Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, legendary electronic composer Brian Eno discusses the way recording has changed how we listen to music (https://www.bloomsburymusicandsound.com/encyclopedia-chapter?docid=b-9781501318399&tocid=b-9781501318399-chapter22&pdfid=9781501318399.ch-022.pdf)
- Time, space, and the experience of sound: In her book, Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art, Salomé Voegelin undertakes a philosophical study of time and space to explore how we experience sound. Read her chapter, Time and Space (https://www.bloomsburymusicandsound.com/encyclopedia-chapter?docid=b-9781501382901&tocid=b-9781501382901-chapter4&pdfid=9781501382901.ch-004.pdf)
- Sound and place: In Shopping Mall: Muzak, Mishearing, and the Productive Volatility of Feedback, from Brandon Labelle’s book Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life Labelle delves into the “ambient architecture” of the shopping mall - how it uses music and sound to construct an environment that serves its greater purpose: consumerism (https://www.bloomsburymusicandsound.com/encyclopedia-chapter?docid=b-9781501336225&tocid=b-9781501336225-chapter5&pdfid=9781501336225.0009.pdf)
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