Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener
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| ''[[Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener]]'' (2010) is a book by [[David Toop]]. The book is based on research done for the ''[[Ways of Hearing]]'' tour. On the cover is «[[Soplones]]», nº 48 of [[Goya]] series ''[[Los Caprichos]]''. | ''[[Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener]]'' (2010) is a book by [[David Toop]]. The book is based on research done for the ''[[Ways of Hearing]]'' tour. On the cover is «[[Soplones]]», nº 48 of [[Goya]] series ''[[Los Caprichos]]''. | ||
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Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener (2010) is a book by David Toop. The book is based on research done for the Ways of Hearing tour. On the cover is «Soplones», nº 48 of Goya series Los Caprichos.
Matmos called it "an exploration of sound in novels, poems, and paintings from before the era of sound reproduction."
From the publisher:
Sinister Resonance begins with the premise that sound is a haunting, a ghost, a presence whose location in space is ambiguous and whose existence in time is transitory. The intangibility of sound is uncanny a phenomenal presence both in the head, at its point of source and all around, and never entirely distinct from auditory hallucinations. The close listener is like a medium who draws out substance from that which is not entirely there.
- The history of listening must be constructed from narratives of myth and fiction, silent arts such as painting, the resonance of architecture, auditory artefacts and nature. In such contexts, sound often functions as a metaphor for mystical revelation, instability, forbidden desires, disorder, formlessness, the unknown, unconscious and extra-human, a representation of immaterial worlds. As if reading a map of hitherto unexplored territory, Sinister Resonance deciphers sounds and silences buried within the ghostly horrors of Arthur Machen, Shirley Jackson, Charles Dickens, Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James and Edgar Allen Poe, seventeenth century Dutch genre painting from Rembrandt to Vermeer, artists as diverse as Francis Bacon and Juan Munoz, Ad Reinhardt and Piero Della Francesca, and the writing of many modernist authors, including Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce and William Faulkner. Threaded through the book is Marcel Duchamp's curious observation "One can look at seeing but one can't hear hearing" and his concept of the infra-thin, those human experiences so fugitive that they exist only in the imaginative absences of perception.
