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Carter, P. (2004). Ambiguous traces, mishearing, and auditory space. In V. Erlmann (Ed), Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound Listening and Modernity. (pp. 43–63). Oxford: Berg. 
Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (20/12/2007, 16:01)   
Resource type: Book Chapter
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Categories: General
Keywords: Society, Space
Creators: Carter, Erlmann
Publisher: Berg (Oxford)
Collection: Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound Listening and Modernity
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p. 44  
"LISTENERS CONSTRUCT AUDITORY SPACE [...] To be communicative depends upon anticipating the other's moves."
  Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard  (03/12/2004, 10:36)

Keywords:   Society, Space
p. 56  
"...making sound recordings involves a poetics of performance reflecting the character and limitations of the technology."
  Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard  (03/12/2004, 10:36)

Keywords:   Sound Recording, Technology
p. 59  
Listening to an acoustic ecology or a culture typically involves a hearing bias, a discrimination towards foreground sounds and against background noise. When listening to a culture, this reinforces "the proposition that culture is communication." This, for Carter, is a mistake.
  Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard  (03/12/2004, 10:36)

Keywords:   Acoustic ecology, Society
p. 59  
"Auditory space is durational, but it lacks music's (and writing's) commitment to linear development. Without a sense of ending, it is not located between silences."
  Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard  (03/12/2004, 10:36)

Keywords:   Space, Time
p. 60  
In many societies, "[m]eaning is derived not from the place of the sound sign in relation to other sound signs within the communicational system. It originates from outside the system, from the association of the sound with a sound in the environment that it mimics."
  Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard  (03/12/2004, 10:36)

Keywords:   Meaning, Semiotics, Society
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