Resonant Matter: Sound, Art, and the Promise of Hospitality

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Illustrations
	Figures
	Plates
Prelude
Chapter 1: On Resonance
	Echo’s Legacy
	Between Magic and Science
	The Dialectics of Vibration
	Sound (in) Art / Sound(,) Art
Chapter 2: The Visitors
	A Pink Rose in the Glittery Frost
	A Diamond Heart and the Orange Red Fire
	Once Again I Fall into My Feminine Ways
	You Protect the World from Me as if I’m the Only One Who’s Cruel 
	You’ve Taken Me to The Bitter End 
	There Are Stars Exploding and There Is Nothing You Can Do
Chapter 3: Time
	On Slowness
	Chanting for Enchantment
	Against Conducting
	Praising Blandness
Chapter 4: Water
	Ragnar’s Bathtub I
	Water Waves
	Interspecies Resonance
	Water against Violence
	Ragnar’s Bathtub II
Chapter 5: Air 2.0
	Baroque Redux
	Aeolian Variations
	Unseen Sounds
	Architectures of Air
Chapter 6: Human, All Too Posthuman
	The Limits of Articulation
	Inhale | Exhale
	Snapping the Voice
	Hysteria
	The Resonant Human
Chapter 7: Silence
	A Diamond Heart
	The Rumbling of the Vanished
	Res·o·nant Voids
	Cruel Optimism
	. . . is Death Really Elsewhere?
Chapter 8: Telepathic Variations
	Spooky Actions at a Distance
	Alpha Wave Music
	Quantum Solace
	Distant Entanglements
	Ragnarök Revisited
Chapter 9: Unwalled
	Undoing Loneliness
	Honing Hospitality
	Beyond Hunkering and Huddling
	Dwelling in Sound, Dance, and Art
	Echo’s Promise
Selected Bibliography
Index