A Philosophy of Ambient Sound: Materiality, Technology, Art and the Sonic Environment

Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
1: Introduction
	The ‘Problem’ of Ambient Sound
	The Concept of Ambient Sound
	Sonic Environmentality
	Surroundability
	Onto-aesthetics
	Perspectives and Aims
	Bibliography
Part I: Fields
	2: Effects of Being-in
		Toward a Material Morphology of Ambient Sound
		Sound as Furniture
		Centralization and Decentralization
		Bibliography
	3: Environmental and Surrounding Sounds
		From Environmental to Surrounding Sounds
		Objectivity and Environmentality
		Objectlessness
		The A-figurative Continuum
		Bibliography
	4: Field Effects
		Univocity and Consistency
		Ubiquity
		Immanence and Immersion
		Toward the Ground
		Groundlessness
		Continuous Variation
		Bibliography
Part II: Strategies
	5: Sonic Mediatization
		Environmentality Without Ecology
		What Is Mediatization?
		Mediation and Mediatization
		Acousmatics and Mediatization
		Medium Effects, Phonogeny and Mediatization
		Bibliography
	6: Synthetic Strategies
		From Reproduction Sensibilities to Production Sensibilities
		Synthetic and Organic Matter
		Synthetic Sound and Technology
		Sound Masses
		Generalized Pop
		Bibliography
	7: Ambient Sound Design
		Sound Design and the Production of Audiovisual Immanence
		The Sonic Environment in Classic Cinema
		The Contemporary Audiovisual Scene
		The Emancipation of Ambient Sound
		Sonic Intensification of Audiovisual Space
		Bibliography
Part III: Frames
	8: Staging Ambient Listening
		Technology and Listening
		The Synthetic Production of the Listening Environment
		The Double Mediality of Technological Listening
		Staging the Ambient Listening Environment
		Bibliography
	9: Architectures of Acoustic Immanence
		Mediatization of Acoustic Space
		Enhanced Reverberation
		Acousmatization and Mediatization of the Acoustic Interior
		Anti-reverberatory Purification
		Bibliography
	10: Amplified Surrounds
		Amplified Expansion and Centralization
		Cinematic Surround Sound
		Non-cinematic Surround Sound
		Bibliography
	11: Mobile Infrastructures of Everyday Listening
		Headphone Bubbles and Their Surroundings
		Inside the Cocoon
		Infrastructures of Environmental Distribution
		Streaming Infrastructures and Bubbles of Ubiquity
		Bibliography
	12: Epilogue: Generic, Inattentive, Asocial
		Bibliography
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Index