Low End Theory: Bass, Bodies and the Materiality of Sonic Experience
- Author: Jasen, Paul C.
There's much here that gives a compelling and productive slant on one of the most contested areas of contemporary audio culture —
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Contents
- Acknowledgments Introduction: Elements of a Myth-Science
- 1. The Sonic Body: An Ethico-Acoustic Toolkit Sonorous Relations Tales and Strategies Myth-Science in the Vibratory Milieu
- 2. Spectral Catalysis: Disquieting Encounters Spectres of the Manmade Unknown Infrasound Unhomed Boo! (toward an operative reality) The Hum 'And it was only by analogy that it could be called a sound at all...' Blinkered Science We still do not know what
- 3. Numinous Strategies Learning to Play the Sonic Body The Nervous Piano Numinous Instruments Religious Audiogenesis Numinous Sound Design Playing the Resonances Tellurian Organs The Organ-Church Assemblage The Arcanum: An Ambulant Myth-Science The Nervo
- 4. Tone Scientists I: Vibratory Arts Cymatic Arts Documentary Practices A Speculative Turn Perceptual Abstraction Transversal Strategies Incipient Dance Sonic Architectures Dance With the Speaker 'A people of oscillators'
- 5. Tone Scientists II: Bass Cults The Lab The Science Bass Science Dubplates and Mastering Engineering the Vibratorium Affects and Affectations Entering the Rhythmachine Three Physio-Logics Jungle (1994) Dubstep (2005) Footwork (2009) Conclusion: Where n