Sonic Possible Worlds, Revised Edition: Hearing the Continuum of Sound

Cover page\nHalftitle page\nPraise\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nCONTENTS\nPREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION\nACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\nIntroduction\nCHAPTER ONE The landscape as sonic possible world\n	Listening to the possibility of the landscape\n	The possible time and space of sound: Palm houses and ghost trains\n	El Tren Fantasma (2011) (inspired by Pierre Schaeff er)\n	Sonic environment as possible timespace world\n	An affective geography of possible worlds, generating the sonic environment\n	Face as Territory/Viso Come Territorio (2012)\n	Reciprocating the affect: Listening to a sonic possible life-world\n	The possibilities of the acousmatic landscape\n	Through the Looking-Glass: Buildings [New York] (2001)\n	Conclusion: Phenomenological possibilism\nCHAPTER TWO Into the world of the work: The possibility of sound art\n	The sound artwork as environment: Cells and murmurs\n	Listening across works: Aesthetic accessibility\n	Sonic centering, decentering, and recentering\n	Chimerization, Hinge (2012) and 3 Channel Chronics (2010–12)\n	Sound words\n	Sonic representation, reference, and truth\n	An ethical center of listening\n	Performing the shape of things themselves\n	Conclusion: Consequences of a contingent sonic truth\nCHAPTER THREE Sonic materialism: The sound of stones\n	Hastening Westward (1995)\n	Conceptual sound Box with the Sound of Its Own Making (1961)\n	The sonic thing\n	The sound of stones: The material of histories and geographies\n	30 Minutes of Listening (2012)\n	Sonic crossing: Intertwining without fissure\n	Myriad Mouth Line (2013)\n	Crossing geography: Crossing identity\n	I keep falling at you (2010)\n	The magnitude and might of sound\n	Conclusion: There is no sonic sublime\nCHAPTER FOUR Hearing the continuum of sound\n	Organized, disorganized, and reorganized sound\n	Ein Überlebender aus Warschau op. 46 (1947)\n	Vertical music\n	Rothko Chapel (1972)\n	Musical worlds\n	Fantaisie variée, piano, orchestra (1912)\n	Musical geography\n	Music of the Spheres (1938)18\n	A joint critical framework\n	Weite, Weisse Stille—Vast White Stillness (2013)\n	Conclusion: The un-sound and the unheard\nCHAPTER FIVE Listening to the inaudible: The sound of unicorns\n	Electrical Walks (2004–)\n	The sound of unicorns\n	But what about the sound of the unicorn, what is its name?\n	Inaudible soundscapes\n	Ultrasonic Scapes (2011)\n	The sound of impossible things\n	The aesthetic inaudible\n	The politics ofpossible-impossible-inaudible-things\n	Sounds from Beneath (2010–12) and SeaWomen (2012)\n	Sonic horizons\nCHAPTER SIX Sonic possible and impossible bodies\n	Prosthetics (2018)\n	The fictional body in an autobiographical and auto-ethnographic frame\n	Voices for Estória IV (1980)\n	Vampiric Silences\n	Hipposkampos (2017)\n	Conclusion: Micro-turbulence, mountains and other bodies\n	In the Shadow of the Silent Mountain (2019)\nNOTES\nBIBLIOGRAPHY\nLIST OF WORKS\nINDEX