Sonic Possible Worlds, Revised Edition: Hearing the Continuum of Sound [Paperback]

From its use in literary theory, film criticism and the discourse of games design, Salom? Voegelin expands 'possible world theory' to think the worlding of sound in music, in art and in the everyday. The modal logic of possible worlds, articulated principally via David K. Lewis and developed through Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological life-worlds, creates a view on the invisible slices of the world and reflects on how to make them count, politically and aesthetically. How to make them thinkable and accessible as the possibility of the everyday and of art: to reach a new materialist understanding from the invisible and to develop an ear for the as yet inaudible. This revised edition continues Voegelin's exploration of the sonic possibility of the world into the sonic possibility and impossibility of the body. Listening to work by ?ine O'Dwyer, Hannah Silva and Jocy de Oliveira, it considers sonic possible worlds' radical power to rethink normative constructions and to fabulate a different body from its sound:Hearing the Continuum Between Plural Bodies; between humans, humanoid aliens, monsters, vampires, plants, things and anything we have no name for yet but which a sonic philosophy might start to hear and call.Salom? Voegelinis Professor of Sound at the London College of Communication, UAL, UK. An artist and writer, she is the author ofListening to Noise and Silence(Bloomsbury, 2010) andThe Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening(Bloomsbury, 2018).

Salom? Voegelin is a brilliant and subtle thinker about sound and music, soSonic Possible Worlds: Hearing the Continuum of Sound, Revised Editionis a deeply explored and essential study of the necessity of listening, of openly absorbing what sound tells us of our shared world, listening which gives us access to the fluid nature of relationships and connections, to the interactive web of the world and our participation in it through awareness of this 'complelC+