The Sound of a Room: Memory and the Auditory Presence of Place
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 In One Circle Bound -- Room as a Sonic Event -- 'In the Sound, a Thought' -- The Shape of a Sound -- Notes -- References -- 2 A Day in the Life -- Personal Space -- Rooms on the Road -- Playback -- Sitting in a Room -- Voices from Next Door -- Notes -- References -- 3 Performing Rooms -- Show Time -- Tuning the Room -- Spaces are Doing It for Themselves -- Beyond the Fourth Wall -- Another Musician -- Notes -- References -- 4 The Sound of a Room at Prayer -- Choirs of Angels -- Aural Architecture -- Answering Voices -- Notes -- References -- 5 Walking Through Urban Sound -- In the Park -- Why Did the Sound Recordist Cross the Road? -- Pavement Art -- Into the Underworld -- Notes -- References -- 6 Landscapes, Beachscapes, Soundscapes -- Elemental Forces -- Always the Same, but Never Again -- Tidal Rooms -- The Movement of Air -- Notes -- References -- 7 Interviewing Space -- Sound Exhumed -- Sound Under Sound -- Sounding Great Village -- Wordless Dramas -- Notes -- References -- 8 The Rooms We Make and the Rooms We Are -- This Place, Here and Now -- Phantom Rooms -- Resonating Canvas -- The Sound Memory of a Room -- Post Script: Empty Rooms -- Note -- References -- Index.