Writing the Field Recording : : Sound, Word, Environment / / Stephen Benson, Will Montgomery.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Benson, Stephen,; Montgomery, Will,
• MitwirkendeR: Benson, Stephen,; Berger, John,; Cascella, Daniela,; Farmer, Patrick,; Lash, Dominic,; Melia, Nicholas,; Montgomery, Will,; Olsen, Redell,; Pisaro, Michael,; Robertson, Lisa,; Skinner, Jonathan,; Watts, Carol,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 15 B/W illustrations Additional audio recordings

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 ha...

Table of Contents

• 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