{"title":"Bridging the Other-Real","authors":"T. Garner","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.39","url":null,"abstract":"Through the theoretical frameworks of sonic virtuality and embodied cognition, Tom Garner considers the role of imagination in the context of sound in actualizing the virtual worlds of digital games. In a chapter that takes in Spinoza, Hume, Kant, and Deleuze, Garner uses this consideration of imagination as the foundation to explore world-building in digital games—where the player is a significant agent in constructing a viable world in which to be present—concluding that sound, when allied to imagination, has a major role in world-blurring, Garner’s term for the convergence, and inability to distinguish, between the real physical world and the “other-real” virtual world.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116825711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sound Quality, Language, and Cognitive Metaphors","authors":"Mads Walther-Hansen","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780190460167.013.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780190460167.013.23","url":null,"abstract":"As Mads Walther-Hansen makes clear, we regularly make use of cognitive metaphors when appraising sound quality. For example, nonauditory descriptors such as warm, cold, and rough might be used to describe auditory parameters, such as when assessing loudspeakers. Equally, we measure such assessments of sound quality against an ideal that, so we are told, is grounded in past sensory-motor experience. However, as Walther-Hansen argues, this explanation is problematic when viewed in light of evolving audio technologies because the cognitive structures behind value- and sense-making are themselves evolving hand-in-hand with those technologies. His focus, therefore, is on the processes of structural coupling that take place between imagined cognitive ideals of sound quality and ever-changing external factors. Walther-Hansen’s thesis is that, in order to explain this process, language should be viewed as a fundamental part of cognitive processing rather than merely being controlled by it.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114865569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Necessity of Vagueness and Ambiguity to the Imagining of Sound","authors":"M. Grimshaw-Aagaard","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780190460167.013.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780190460167.013.5","url":null,"abstract":"Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard takes issue with the objectification and quantification of (and often outright attempts to eliminate) imprecision and subjectivity in the natural sciences, particularly in acoustics and the field of audio testing. Instead, he argues, experiences of vagueness and ambiguity are essential to an imagining of sound, where that imagination aids in the experiencing of an external world. Such imagination, Grimshaw-Aagaard contends, performs a vital role in the emergence of perceptual hypotheses about the external world and thus the presence of our selves in the context of the nonself that is the external world.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131218981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Listening and/as Imagination","authors":"M. Cobussen","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.6","url":null,"abstract":"Marcel Cobussen focuses on the connection between imagination and different forms of music listening, from “attentive listening” to various forms of “distracted listening.” He explores the idea that listening—as a creative act—is always linked to imagination. Cobussen deals with several music and sound art examples in the pursuit of this idea, and he outlines how imaginary processes function in different ways to “complete” the insufficient information brought to the listener by the senses. Cobussen devises the term “imagining-through-listening” to reconsider how imagination is tied to perception, and he closes with a personal story that outlines how listening is a process of oscillating between sonic reality and sonic imagination.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"146 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133212863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imagining Sonic Stories","authors":"V. Meelberg","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.22","url":null,"abstract":"Sonic narratives are the subject of Vincent Meelberg’s chapter, in which he discusses the capacity of sound not only to trigger narratives but also to tell stories that unfold over time. Meelberg uses his own sound collage work as an example of how narratives can be created through a sequence of sounds. He argues that sonic narratives emerge when the sequence of sounds represents a temporal development. Examples are provided that show how this temporal development emerges from either the referential qualities (hearing a succession of concrete events) or the acoustic qualities (e.g., the succession of tension and release) of the sound.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121241174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Opera and the South African Political","authors":"C. Ballantine","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.14","url":null,"abstract":"Christopher Ballantine’s focus is on timbre, in particular the timbre of the singing voice, and how this combines with the imagination to create meaning. His investigation is largely philosophical; but the growth in popularity of opera in post-apartheid South Africa provides empirical means for Ballantine to indicate this powerful but analytically neglected way of creating meaning in the performance of music. His case study shows how timbre can produce musical experiences that have a particular, and often surprising, resonance. Through interviews with leading figures in South African opera, Ballantine demonstrates that timbre is a vital wellspring of imagined meaning; it should especially be seen thus if we seek to understand the singing voice in a sociopolitical context such as that of South Africa during and after apartheid.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123873592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Sound of an Endless Column","authors":"Z. Eitan, Hila Tamir-Ostrover","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.36","url":null,"abstract":"Zohar Eitan and Hila Tamir-Ostrover start their chapter with a survey of existing empirical studies of sound-space mappings—in particular, pitch/spatial height associations. Using Ligeti’s Endless Column as a case, they exemplify how music might challenge these mappings by pointing out contradictions in the associative link between the auditory dimension and spatial and motion features. These contradictions, the authors argue, on the one hand can illustrate novel opportunities for composers to use music-space correspondences to create paradoxical spaces while, on the other hand, could demonstrate how the music-space correspondence revealed by empirical research could be used in the analysis of music.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133512788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Divergent Images of Early Sound Experience during Infancy and Early Childhood","authors":"M. Forrester","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.25","url":null,"abstract":"Michael Forrester is concerned with the significance of sound for neonates and infants in the development of their language and musical abilities. In particular, he makes an effort to understand precisely what it is that underpins adult imaginings, both parental and academic, of what the experience of sound is for these developing humans. Forrester presents several ideas dealing with child-directed speech that underpin language acquisition and the development of musicality before assessing two models of early sound experience: that of communicative musicality and that of psychoanalytic developmental psychology. Throughout, Forrester keeps focus on the imagery that the child might be experiencing and argues that early sonic exposure is crucial to the growth and maintenance of a coherent self.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131897462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Speech, Sound, Technology","authors":"Johannes (Jos) Mulder, Theo van Leeuwen","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.24","url":null,"abstract":"Johannes Mulder and Theo van Leeuwen investigate how the microphone, the amplifier, and the loudspeaker have changed the semiotic potential of the sound of the voice. Based on a social semiotic understanding, the authors discuss the voice from three perspectives: physical, focusing on how bodily experience from speaking and singing informs the understanding of the sound of the voice (covering implications such as pitch, loudness, and alterations of various kinds); social, based on the way human social and cultural experiences, such as accents and different vocal styles, inform the understanding of sound; and, finally, the technologically enhanced voice, showing that, even though the appreciation of this voice rests on prior understanding of biological and social voices, this voice introduces extraexperiential dimensions that slowly assimilate into the culture as a form of disembodied, nonhuman voice.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115642431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sound, Museums, and the Modulation of the Imagination","authors":"William Whittington","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.27","url":null,"abstract":"William Whittington discusses how screen-based art provides alternative approaches to sound design that challenge perception and subjectivity through the manipulation of sound hierarchies, idiosyncratic patterns of design, and customized modes of deployment. His focus on sound is warranted by the observation that sound is often the key element holding works together aesthetically and temporally, because it activates the immersive qualities that many artists strive to establish, and, in this way, he provides a counterbalance to the abundance of critical analyses related to the visual aspects of art. Whittington references a variety of works that highlight issues of unity and disjunction, audibility and intelligibility, and synchronization and synthesis in seeking to strip away narrative logic in order to rewrite expectations in regard to image and sound relations.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124427294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}