Sound objects / editors, James A. Steintrager and Rey Chow.

Sound Objects: an introduction / James A. Steintrager, with Rey Chow -- I GENEALOGIES. Reflections on the sound object and reduced listening / Michel Chion ; Pierre Schaeffer and the (recorded) sound source / John Dack ; The fluctuating sound object / Brian Kane -- II AURAL REIFICATION, SONIC COMMODIFICATION. Listening with Adorno, again : nonobjective objectivity and the possibility of critique / James A. Steintrager ; Spectral objects : on the fetish character of music technologies / Jonathan Sterne -- III ACOUSMATIC COMPLICATIONS. Listening after "acousmaticity" : notes on a transdisciplinary problematic / Rey Chow ; The skin of the voice : acousmatic illusions, ventriloquial listening / Pooja Rangan -- IV SOUND ABJECTS AND NONHUMAN RELATIONS. The acoustic abject : sound and the legal imagination / Veit Erlmann ; The alluring objecthood of the heartbeat / Jairo Moreno and Gavin Steingo ; On nonhuman sound : sound as relation / Georgina Born -- V MEMORY TRACES. The sound of arche-cinema / John Mowitt ; Listening to the sirens / Michael Bull ; Entities inertias faint beings : drawing as sounding / David Toop.

"Is a sound an object, an experience, an event, or a relation? What exactly does the emerging discipline of sound studies study? Sound Objects pursues these questions while exploring how history, culture, and mediation entwine with sound's elusive objectivity. Examining the genealogy and evolution oof the concept of the sound object, the commodification of sound, acousmatic listening, nonhuman sounds, and sound and memory, the contributors not only probe conceptual issues that lie in the forefront of contemporary sonic discussions but also undersocore auditory experience as fundamental to sounds as a critical enterprise. In so doing, they offer exciting considerations of sound within and beyond its role in meaning, communication, and information and an illuminatingly original theoretcal overview of the field of sound studies itself." (cubierta posterior)