Sonic Phantoms: Composition with Auditory Phantasmatic Presence - Hardcover

Barbara Ellison; Thomas Bey William Bailey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1501347020 ISBN 13: 9781501347023

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

Synopsis

In this book, Barbara Ellison and Thomas B. W. Bailey lay out and explore the mystifying and evanescent musical territory of 'sonic phantoms': auditory illusions within the musical material that convey a 'phantasmatic' presence. Structured around a large body of compositional work developed by Ellison over the past decade, sonic phantoms are revealed and illustrated as they arise through a diverse array of musical sources, materials, techniques, and compositional tools: voices (real and synthetic), field recordings, instrument manipulation, object amplification, improvisation, and recording studio techniques. Somehow inherent in all music--and perhaps in all sound--sonic phantoms lurk and stalk with the promise of mystery and elevation. We just need to conjure them.

About this title

About the Author

Barbara Ellison is an award-winning composer and artist whose creations have been presented internationally, including her latest 3-hour album, Cyber-Opera.


Thomas Bey William Bailey is a recording artist and author of several books on sonic art, including To Hear the World with New Eyes: A Cultural History of the Synesthetic and Cross-Sensory Arts (2016).

Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the main figures in the realms of sound art and experimental music.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501347020
• ISBN 13: 9781501347023
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Francisco Lopez