Sound Works: A Cultural Theory of Sound Design

Professor Holger Schulze (University of Copenhagen, Denmark),Carla J. Maier (University of Copenhagen, Denmark),Julia Krause (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)

Sound Works: A Cultural Theory of Sound Design
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Country
United States
Published
4 April 2019
Pages
272
ISBN
9781501330223

Sound Works: A Cultural Theory of Sound Design

Professor Holger Schulze (University of Copenhagen, Denmark),Carla J. Maier (University of Copenhagen, Denmark),Julia Krause (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)

What is sound design? What is its function in the early 21st century and into the future?

Sound Works examines these questions in four parts: Part 1, Why This Sound? , presents an overview of the modern history of sound design. Part 2 is highly visual and provides a glance onto a sound designer’s workbench and the current state of Sonic Labor. Part 3 uses cultural analysis to explore our contemporary Living with Sounds. The final and fourth part then proposes a series of anthropological and political interpretations of how Sound Works today.

This book is not a manual on sound design; it instead argues for a cultural theory of sound design for sound designers and sound artists, for clients who commission a sound design and for researchers in the fields of sound studies, design research, and cultural studies

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