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The Sound of a Room: Memory and the Auditory Presence of Place book cover

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The Sound of a Room Memory and the Auditory Presence of Place

By Seán Street Copyright 2020
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge
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What does a place sound like – and how does the sound of place affect our perceptions, experiences, and memories? The Sound of a Room takes a poetic and philosophical approach to exploring these questions, providing a thoughtful investigation of the sonic aesthetics of our lived environments. Moving through a series of location-based case studies, the author uses his own field recordings as the... Read more

Acknowledgements

Preface

  1. In One Circle Bound

  2. A Day in the Life

  3. Performing Rooms

  4. The Sound of a Room at Prayer

  5. Walking through Urban Sound

  6. Landscapes, Beachscapes, Soundscapes

  7. Interviewing Space

  8. The Rooms We Make and the Rooms We Are

Index

Biography

Seán Street holds an Emeritus Professorship at Bournemouth University. Previous works on sound include The Poetry of Radio and The Memory of Sound (Routledge, 2013/2015,) as well as a trilogy published by Palgrave, Sound Poetics ( 2017,) Sound at the Edge of Perception (2018), and The Sound Inside the Silence: Travels in the Sonic Imagination (2019.) He is a published poet, and a radio programme maker for the BBC and other broadcasters.

"Séan Street opens our ears.... [to] the sounds that exist inside us, both physically and psychologically.... [to] consider the sound of the rooms in our own minds, poems, novels, works of art.... Séan Street gently conducts us on."

—Hilary Davies, The Times Literary Supplement

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