Index
Acknowledgements VII
Introduction IX
Chapter 1
Listening 1
Being Honeyed
To Listen
Dynamic Things and Places
Critique of a Remote Critic
Listening to the Soundscape Recorded
Listening to the Radio
Conclusion: Sonic Solitude
Chapter 2
Noise 41
Bad Taste
Noisy Non-Sense
How can you hear it when you do not know what you are listening for? — Noise and Modernism
Noise and Postmodernism
Sonic Noise
Conclusion: Noisy Voices
Chapter 3
Silence 77
Conceptual Silence
When there is nothing to hear you start hearing things
The silent "I"/ Sonic Subjectivity
Crickets
Silent Duration
Symbolic, Semiotic and Social Sound
Moments of Coincidence
Radiophonic Silence
Conclusion: Silence as Context of Auditory Aesthetics
Chapter 4
Time and Space 121
Sitting in Rooms
Resonating Places; Sounding Time
Geography of Timespace
Inhabiting a Playfull Agonism
Building Sonic Bridges and Towns
A Sonic Sensibility for New Media Art
Narrating temporal places/ migration
The Timespace of Radio
Conclusion: Into the Now of Listening
Chapter 5
Now 167
Sonic Pasts: an Afterthought
Perception and Sensation
Sound as 'Pathetic Trigger'
The Duration of Perception
The Refrain of Now
Notes 191
Bibliography 217
List of Works 221
Index 223