les presses du réel

Sonic SomaticPerformances of the Unsound Body

table of contents
acknowledgments
table of contents
list of figures

chapter one / soundmutesilence
1.0 heretofore unheard histories of air disturbances
1.1 sound itself
1.2 unheard of
1.3 breakdown
2.0 taciturntablism
2.1 reductio
2.2 mootmute
3.0 disquietude
3.1 this quiet
3.2 resisting arrest: the speechless body in motion

chapter two / soundmouthbody
1.0 mouthpores
1.1 mouth agape
1.2 frozen speech
2.0 flatus vocis: somatic winds
2.1 south winds
2.2 incontinence
2.3 exit wound
3.0 leaks: stories of the spit self

chapter three / soundtimeslanguage
1.0 utter the stutter
1.1 theperformanceofinarticulationandporosity
1.2 remainder
1.3 arrhythmia and claustrophilia
1.4 scream and run, run, run
2.0 metronomics
2.1 vexations
2.2 furniture audience
2.3 it never ends

chapter four / soundspacebeyond
1.0 volume
1.1 of confinement and infinity
1.2 within
1.3 provisional place and speech
1.4 slippery threads
2.0 depthcharges
2.1 pneumatics
2.2 space is the place is the time is the song
2.3 frictions: sound objects and surfaces
2.4 ricochets
2.5 the announcement which stops the shot
3.0 as it empties out

coda
1.0 statement on the state of sound art

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index


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