On Listening

by Angus Carlyle & Cathy Lane (Eds.)

2013 · Uniformbooks · 200 pages

On Listening is a collection of forty multi-disciplinary perspectives drawn from anthropology, bioacoustics, geography, literature, community activism, sociology, religion, philosophy, art history, conflict mediation and the sonic arts including music, ethnomusicology and field recording. These specially commissioned contributions explore the many ways in which skilled listening can mediate new relationships with our physical environment and the people and other species that we share it with.

From the Introduction: “Listening has become an increasingly popular subject of study. It features in conferences, in academic journals, in doctoral research projects. However, reflexive listening is an applied practice that exceeds the boundaries of academic institutions to take its place in a number of everyday settings. This book aims to connect the scholarly and the experiential and extend the contemporary discourse on listening.” [Text Source: Uniformbooks]

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Contents:

• Word-Pictures from a Journey Through Music / Moushumi Bhowmik & Sukanta Majumdar

• The Listener is the Artist / Sarha Moore

• Field Recording as Sonic Journalism / Peter Cusack

• Notes on the Protocols for a Listening Session (Glasgow Variation) / Ultra-red

• Exchanges / Mark Peter Wright

• It Is Nothing / David Toop

• Listening, Meaning and Power / Michael Gallagher

• Kill the Inner Voice: Zen and the Self-Conscious Anthropologist / Rupert Cox

• Wine and dust (excerpt), 2001 / Francisco López

• Playing Along With Whales / David Rothenberg

• Feeling the Ground: Vibration, Listening, Sounding at Sea / Penny McCall Howard

• Listening Underwater / Gianni Pavan

• Living Doubts: The Ontology of Hearing, Seeing and Naming Birds / Andrew Whitehouse

• Giving Voice to Urban Atmospheres / Jean-Paul Thibaud

• Sound Diary Istanbul: Acoustemological Musings From The Field / Meri Kytö

• Listening, Reading, Writing: A Case Study / Daniela Cascella

• Hearing Events in Space / Barry Blesser & Linda-Ruth Salter

• Peaks and Nulls: Beneath the Supersonic Airspace Above the Mojave Desert / Steve Rowell

• The Human Auditorium / Ross Brown

• Auditoria & Audiences, 'Shakkei', 借 景 and the Out in the Open Listening Experience / Jérôme Joy.

• Tender Beats / Brandon LaBelle

• A Balloon for the Barbican, Politics of Listening in The City of London / Davide Tidoni

• Listening to Tide: Ideas and Practice Behind 'Flood Tide' / John Eacott

• The Undercoat of Life, Listening to Radio / David Hendy

• A Short History of Radio Listening / Salomé Voegelin

• Listening to Music in the Cinema / Michael Chanan

• The Artist and the Listening Machine / Volkmar Klien

• The Panacoustics of Listening-In / Peter Szendy

• Listening Glasses / Dawn Scarfe

• Listening as Social and Solitary Experience: The Transmission of Irish Traditional Music Through Recordings / Jessica Cawley

• Listening Others / Lisbeth Lipari

• Spiritual Listening to Inner Messages: What Do We Know So Far? / Diana Corley Schnapp One Must Be So Careful With Names / Daniel Smith

• Attending Rwanda's Post-Genocide Reconciliation Workshops / Nicola Triscott

• Listening to People is Indispensable in Transforming Conflict / Jean de Dieu Basabose

• Listening to Stories from Guantánamo / Polly Nash

• Listening in the Sufi Islamic Tradition / Kenneth Avery

• In the Midst of It All, Something is Stirring: The Biopsychosocial Condition of Listening / Seth Ayyaz Bhunnoo

• A Guide to Listening to Renaissance Florence / Niall Atkinson

• Listening as Feeling / Ansuman Biswas.