Year: 2012
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: What is non-cochlear sound?This open question is followed by way of an initial explication of the psychophysiology of audition.Non-cochlearity in sound is posited firstly in terms of synaesthesia and the skin and body cavity reception of infrasonic and low frequency sound waves.The auditory imagination is a further example that can produce a perception of sound without any direct acoustic stimulation of either the ear or skin and body.However, one's imagination still retains a relation to the sounds of the world we live in.From a phenomenological perspective this worldly relation is a fundamental characteristic of sound as something that is heard.On this basis the causality associated with empirical accounts of auditory perception as a product of biological processes are contrasted with an interrogation of sound qua sound.It is posited that the sounds themselves are non-cochlear in the sense of being non-physical phenomena disclosed in the lived experience of hearkening to the meaningful sounds one hears in the world.
Author: Malcolm Riddoch
Language: English
Topic: Sound Studies and Aurality
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2403373149