E-grāmata: Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice

"Even if we consider 'the voice' as a sound source, in an average personal imaginary sound is something external, while 'the voice' is something internal and intimate. If we add to that the extreme power of language, its even harder to treat the voice as 'sound.' Eidsheim explores these contradictions in her book with knowledge and vision. Her theory of sound as a 'universal connection of entities,' for example, is simply enrapturing...."  - Aurelio Cianciotta (Neural) "Eidsheims formulation of music as vibrational practice engenders new ways of considering communication between singer and audience, environment and body, and animate and inanimate materials. ... Her work generates wide-ranging and pragmatic resonances for those interested in questions surrounding sound and multi-sensory experience." - Amy Skjerseth (Theatre Research International) "[ Eidsheim's] book invites readers to remember that music itself is a complex phenomenon better understood as an experience and practice of 'intermaterial vibration.'" - Cecilia Livingston (Cambridge Opera Journal) Sensing Sound is a captivating and rewarding book. Eidsheims vibrational practice provides a liberating take on vocal sound, and one that can be applied not only to singing and listening, but to many dimensions of sensory experience. - Rebecca Lentjes (Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies) No doubt [ Sensing Sound] will become required reading in many academic disciplines that touch on voice studies. - Marit MacArthur (Yale Review) Sensing Sound delivers a provocative theory of musical sonority-one that interrogates the participatory, material, and ex­periential dimensions of music-making in new and exciting ways. . . . Sensing Sound is sure to enliven music and sound studies research for years to come. - Daniel Akira Stadnicki (Intersections) Eidsheims book is sensitive to bodies, attentive to physics, and mindful of encultured practices of listening and sounding. It is a much-needed meeting point for musicology, sound studies, philosophy of sound, performance studies, vocal pedagogy, and those interested in theorizing difference in music. - Lucie Vįgnerovį (Current Musicology)