About this eTextbook
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.
ISBNs for Sonic Phantoms are 9781501347030, 1501347039 and the print ISBNs are 9781501391767, 1501391763. Additional ISBNs include 9781501347023.
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- Author: Barbara Ellison; Thomas Bey William Bailey
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Additional ISBN: 9781501347023
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