{"product_id":"9781554589708","title":"Representing Sound: Notes on the Ontology of Recorded Musical Communications","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe first title in the Laurier Digital series.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eRepresenting Sound\u003c\/i\u003e elucidates the base technical ontology, the machine essence, of every recorded musical communication. In so doing, it suggests the broad contours of an unprecedented theoretical basis for considering recording practice that posits no fundamental relationship between it and live performance. Representing Sound thus complicates common conceptions of sound to include different ontological states. This seemingly simple notion–that the acoustic phenomena we encounter in concert are, by nature, different from those we encounter when we listen to records–should have profound consequences for the way everyone, from musicologists to rock stars, considers recording practice. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e In the tradition of books like Marshall McLuhan’s and Quentin Fiore’s \u003ci\u003eThe Medium Is The Massage\u003c\/i\u003e (1968), \u003ci\u003eRepresenting Sound\u003c\/i\u003e sets its text within more than one hundred original visual artworks, each designed to reinforce the essay’s broader creative resonances. This allows readers to approach the larger ontological argument either atomistically (i.e., on a frame-by-frame basis) or holistically, depending on their creative or analytic needs. In this way, \u003ci\u003eRepresenting Sound\u003c\/i\u003e provides a possible model for creative scholarly work in the impending post-book era. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157561098480,"sku":"9781554589708","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781554589708_p0.jpg?v=1763754739","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781554589708","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}