Sound works : a cultural theory of sound design

• Main Author: Schulze, Holger
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Bloomsbury Academic 2019; Bloomsbury Publishing; Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Acoustical engineering; MUSIC; Sound; Sound in design; Sound-Social aspects
• ISBN: 1501330225; 9781501330223; 9781501330247; 1501330241
• DOI: 10.5040/9781501330254

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