TY - BOOK ID - 691778 TI - Sound unseen : acousmatic sound in theory and practice AU - Kane, brian AU - Oxford University Press PY - 2014 SN - 9780199347841 9780199347872 PB - Oxford New York Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Vibrations KW - Music KW - Philosophy of science KW - Aesthetics KW - Affective and dynamic functions KW - Musique concrète KW - Musique KW - Philosophy and aesthetics. KW - History and criticism KW - Acoustics and physics. KW - Philosophie et esthétique KW - Histoire et critique KW - Acoustique et physique KW - Musique concrète KW - Philosophie et esthétique UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:691778 AB - 'Sound Unseen' explores acousmatic sound - a sound that one hears without seeing its cause. Pierre Schaeffer, the inventor of musique concrète, in his Traité des objets musicaux, first popularized the term 'acousmatic'. After an introduction, the first chapter provides a thorough exegesis of Schaeffer's theory of acousmatics. It also presents three objections to Schaeffer's theories (myth, phantasmagoria, and ontology) around which the book is structured. ER -