Listening to Noise and Silence

An engaging aesthetic theory of Sound Art rooted in a phenomenology of perception. The author goes to great lengths to describe Listening to sensorial material and supplements her investigations with a good curation of sound experiments. There is an inherent tension between subjectivity and objectivity in the emergent properties of listening and traditional artistic boundaries fail to demarcate this. The book chapters themselves seem more like clusters of topics that loosely model this art form. Listening, Noise, Silence, Time, Space, Now describe the listener as much as the sound.