Feeling sound

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2018

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Peeters

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I have been listening to electronically produced and mediated music for about 45 years and I can clearly recall the thrill of early performances I attended, broadcasts and recordings I listened to. What was it that attracted me to this new soundworld? How would I describe the sensations (both physical and emotional) that such sound elicited then and still does now? On some of these occasions I would describe my response as ‘transcendental’. My aim in this chapter is to encourage a vocabulary of describing responses to electroacoustic sound – in this I treat the perception system and the body as inseparable; the psychology of being thrilled is clearly not just a mental act but profoundly embodied. I will focus on music made with technology, whether in studios or produced live, and that is finally heard through loudspeakers – ‘electroacoustic’ sound.

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Emmerson, S. (2018) Feeling sound. In: Music Analysis and the Body: Experiments, Explorations and Embodiments (Nicholas Reyland, Becky Thumpston eds.), Leuven: Peeters. Leuven Studies in Musicology 6. pp. 191-208

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