Writing the Field Recording: Sound, Word, Environment

Media type: E-Book

Title: Writing the Field Recording : Sound, Word, Environment

Contains: Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Writing the Field Recording
Preface: Field
Part One. Opening the Field
Chapter 1 Fields, Theory, Field Theory: John Berger and Manfred Werder Defi ne a Field
Chapter 2 The Nondescript
Chapter 3 Text-Score-Text
Part Two. The Poetics of the Field
Chapter 4 Rubies Reddened by Rubies Reddening
Chapter 5 Pitch of Inhabiting: Thoughts on the Practice of Sound, Poetry and Virno’s ‘Accustomed Place’
Chapter 6 Druids Fielding Questions: Eva-Maria Houben, Emily Dickinson and Charles Ives
Chapter 7 Field Recording as Writing: John Berger, Peter Gizzi and Juliana Spahr
Part Three. The Field in Practice
Chapter 8 Bittern space, a siskin
Chapter 9 Disquiet
Chapter 10 Hedges
Chapter 11 Stirrup Notes: Fragments on Listening
Notes on Contributors
Index

Contributor: Benson, Stephen [Author]; Benson, Stephen [Contributor]; Berger, John [Contributor]; Cascella, Daniela [Contributor]; Farmer, Patrick [Contributor]; Lash, Dominic [Contributor]; Melia, Nicholas [Contributor]; Montgomery, Will [Author]; Montgomery, Will [Contributor]; Olsen, Redell [Contributor]; Pisaro, Michael [Contributor]; Robertson, Lisa [Contributor]; Skinner, Jonathan [Contributor]; Watts, Carol [Contributor]

Published: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (288 p.); 15 B/W illustrations Additional audio recordings

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781474406703

ISBN: 9781474406703

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Keywords: Mind and body ; Literary Studies ; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Footnote: In English

Description: Intervenes in contemporary debates about the relationship between literature and field recordingA field recording is any audio recording made outside of the studio. Such recordings have lately become important to contemporary musicians, sound artists and environmentalists. However, less attention has been given to the relation of sound, as manifested in the theory and practice of the field recording, to writing. The 11 essays collected here take the recent explosion of interest in field recording as the point of departure for an investigation of the sounded field in music and its relationship to literature and writing. Including seminal pieces on field thinking by John Berger and Lisa Robertson, Writing the Field Recording analyses contemporary text scores, histories, composer statements, critical literature, poetry and nature writing in the context of sound studies. Drawing on expertise from a range of backgrounds, including composers, musicians, poets and critics, the collection presents an inter-disciplinary exploration of the various registers in which the field recording is written, such as the essayistic, the creatively exploratory, the experimental and the philosophical alongside critical reflections on artistic practice.Key FeaturesFocuses on sound in relation to poetry, poetics and nature / landscape writingIncludes contributions from published poets Lisa Robertson, Carol Watts and Jonathan SkinnerIncludes the classic essay, ‘Field’, by John BergerAccompanying sound recordings made accessible via the Resources tab on the Edinburgh University Press website

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