Index

Contents
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  On Listening                                    9
  Angus Carlyle & Cathy Lane

Listening Perspectives

Introduction 15
Images of Listening: Word-Pictures from a Journeyb18
Through Music 
Moushumi Bhowmik & Sukanta Majumdar

The Listener is the Artist 22
Sarha Moore

Field Recording as Sonic Journalism 25
Peter Cusack 

Notes on the Protocols for a Listening Session 30
(Glasgow Variation)
Ultra-red

Exchanges 34
Mark Peter Wright

It Is Nothing 38
David Toop

Listening, Meaning and Power 41
Michael Gallagher

Kill the Inner Voice: Zen and the Self-Conscious 45
Anthropologist
Rupert Cox

Wine and dust (excerpt), 2001 48
Francisco López

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Listening Spaces

Introduction 55

Playing Along With Whales 58
David Rothenberg

Feeling the Ground: Vibration, Listening, Sounding at Sea 61
Penny McCall Howard

Listening Underwater 67
Gianni Pavan

Living Doubts: The Ontology of Hearing, Seeing and 71
Naming Birds
Andrew Whitehouse

Giving Voice to Urban Atmospheres 75
Jean-Paul Thibaud

Sound Diary Istanbul: Acoustemological Musings From 79
The Field
Meri Kytö

Listening, Reading, Writing: A Case Study 83
Daniela Cascella

Hearing Events in Space 87
Barry Blesser & Linda-Ruth Salter

Peaks and Nulls: Beneath the Supersonic Airspace Above 91
the Mojave Desert
Steve Rowell

The Human Auditorium 95
Ross Brown

Auditoria & Audiences—‘Shakkei’—借景 and the Out in 99
the Open Listening Experience
Jérôme Joy

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Listening Devices

Introduction 107

Tender Beats 110
Brandon LaBelle

A Balloon for the Barbican—Politics of Listening in 113
The City of London
Davide Tidoni

Listening to Tide: Ideas and Practice Behind ‘Flood Tide’ 118
John Eacott

The Undercoat of Life—Listening to Radio 122
David Hendy

A Short History of Radio Listening 125
Salomé Voegelin

Listening to Music in the Cinema 128
Michael Chanan

The Artist and the Listening Machine 132
Volkmar Klien

The Panacoustics of Listening-In 137
Peter Szendy

Listening Glasses 140
Dawn Scarfe

Listening as Social and Solitary Experience: 143
The Transmission of Irish Traditional Music Through
Recordings
Jessica Cawley

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Listening to Self and Other

Introduction 153

Listening Others 156
Lisbeth Lipari

Spiritual Listening to Inner Messages: What Do We 160
Know So Far?
Diana Corley Schnapp

One Must Be So Careful With Names 164
Daniel Smith

Attending Rwanda’s Post-Genocide Reconciliation 167
Workshops
Nicola Triscott

Listening to People is Indispensable in Transforming 172
Conflict
Jean de Dieu Basabose

Listening to Stories from Guantánamo 176
Polly Nash

Listening in the Sufi Islamic Tradition 180
Kenneth Avery

In the Midst of It All, Something is Stirring: The 183
Biopsychosocial Condition of Listening
Seth Ayyaz Bhunnoo

A Guide to Listening to Renaissance Florence 188
Niall Atkinson

Listening as Feeling 192
Ansuman Biswas