New,Techniques of Hearing: History, Theory and Practices

Contents

• 1. An Unquiet Quiet: The History and ‘Smart’ Politics of Sound Masking in the Office.
• 2. Technologies of Silence.
• 3. Pleasure and Pain with Amplified Sound: A Sound and Music History of Loudspeaker Systems in Germany, ca. 1930.
• 4. Measuring Listening Effort: An Attempt to Quantify Mental Exertion.
• 5. Hearing Echoes as an Audile Technique: From "Facial Vision" to Experimental Psychology and Echolocation.
• 6. Mobile Music Listening and the Self-Management of Health and Well-Being.
• 7. Better Hearing for All - Smart Solutions for the Clinical, Subclinical and Normal-Hearing Population.
• 8. "The Future is Ear" (Hunn 2014): Infrastructures of ‘Smart Hearing’.
• 9. Listening or Reading? Rethinking Ableism in Relation to the Senses and (Acoustic) Text.
• 10. Binaural Gaming Arrangements: Techno-Sensory Configurations of Playing the Audio Game A Blind Legend.
• 11. Hearing Like an Animal: Exploring Acoustic Experience Beyond Human Ears.
• 12. "Adaptive Environments": Ambient Media and the Temporalities of Sonic Selfcare.
• 13. The Shepherd’s Farewell: Shared Hearing as (a Mode of) Healing – Music, Imagery and Emotion-Neural Dynamics.
• 14. Dis/abling Smartness: AAC Devices, Music and Acoustic Wellbeing.