Sonic Phantoms : Composition with Auditory Phantasmatic Presence - Barbara Ellison

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Sonic Phantoms

Composition with Auditory Phantasmatic Presence

By: Barbara Ellison, Thomas Bey William Bailey, Francisco López (Editor)

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Hardcover | 11 June 2020

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248 Pages

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Sonic Phantoms explores the concept of auditory illusions within musical territories. Structured around a large body of compositional work over the past decade, the book illustrates the presence of sonic phantoms through a diverse array of musical sources, materials, techniques and compositional tools including: voices--real and synthetic, field recordings, instrument manipulation, object amplification, improvisation, and recording studio techniques. It outlines and emphasizes the role of sonic illusions in their larger musical context and their presence in a considerable number of disparate musical traditions (Western and non-Western), techno-historical moments (from ancient/archaic to electronic/computer-age techniques), cultural frameworks (from 'serious' to 'popular'), and fields of interest/expertise (from the psychological to the musical). This book shapes and defines a specific and dedicated compositional realm that considers auditory illusions as essential and intentional components of the work and not simply as mere side effects.

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Sonic Phantoms channels the spirits of those artists and theorists who have long understood the instability of our relation to the world while providing its readers with an intensely personal insight into a compositional practice that seeks to enable in others a different form of knowing and being in the world. A vital reminder for our post-truth times that we are active agents in the production of the strange hinterland that lies beyond and between us, and of the critical role of art as an interventionist act. * Greg Hainge, Professor of French, The University of Queensland, Australia, and author of Philippe Grandrieux: Sonic Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2017) *
Sonic Phantoms is full of wonders, describing research and practical matters of great breadth and depth across time and culture. Like one of the sources quoted, the work itself is 'radically inclusive and universalizing,' and a pleasure to read: the book is written in sensible language without compromising scientific accuracy and practical psychological reality. In this book, the 'perceptive' ear finds resources, examples, philosophical techniques, and compositional strategies, discoursing on the real illusions of human perception as it relates to our natural and aesthetic interactions with the world. * Michael Lee Gendreau, Acoustician and Composer, USA *
In plural voices and with great eloquence, the book takes us on a high-speed trip through the hallucinatory landscape of sonic works, revealing the phantasmic potential and intent of music and its listening, and conjuring from locked grooves, loops, and repetitions the composer as 'revealer of new worlds.' * Salome Voegelin, Professor of Sound, London College of Communication, UAL, UK, and author of The Political Possibility of Sound (Bloomsbury, 2018) *

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