This is a handbook of ‘acoulogy'. The author walks and listens to the natural and artificial sounds of modern world. Through texts by writers of different countries, he analyses these real-world sounds to establish a new form of research: acoulogy. Acoulogy studies how to listen to sound by way of various approaches: analysis, classification, recording, reading, etc. Acoulogy is: How to listen as we speak.
Table of contents:
- First part: Listenings
- A. Listening walking
- B. On the road
- C. Voice in space
- Second part: Mythologies
- A. Obscurantisms
- B. The sound burst
- C. Poetry
- Third Part: Revelations
- A. Diffusion
- B. Fixation
- C. Oral, written