1st Edition
Sound Hunters A History of Amateur Sound Recording
Introduction 1. The Material Culture of Sound Hunting 2. National and Transnational Networks of Sound Hunting 3. The Formation and Transmission of an Audile Culture 4. “All sounds is ours.” The Aesthetics of Sound Hunting Afterword
Biography
Jean-Baptiste Masson is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie/Bienvenüe fellow based at the Université Rennes 2 and a research fellow at the Cinémathèque de Bretagne. He is currently writing a handbook for the restoration of the sound of amateur films. He was previously a fellow of the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities at the University of York, where he worked on the history of the sonic practices of amateur sound recordists – the sound hunters. Besides his research, Jean-Baptiste is also a composer and improviser working with instruments, microphones, and machines. jbmasson.com
