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Ways of Listening Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener , David Toop (2010) London: Continuum, 253pp ISBN: 9781441149725

Ways of Listening Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener , David Toop (2010) London:... WAYS OF LISTENING SINISTER RESONANCE: THE MEDIUMSHIP OF THE LISTENER, DAVID TOOP (2010) London: Continuum, 253pp ISBN: 9781441149725 ed by Dominic Power DOI: 10.3366/sound.2011.0009 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 time is uncanny – a phenomenal presence both in the head, at its point of source and all around – so never entirely distinct from auditory hallucinations. The close listener is ‘like a medium who draws out substance from that which is not entirely there’. (p. xv) The subtitle to David Toop’s Sinister Resonance ‘The Mediumship of the Listener’ casts the listener as occultist, and the soundscapes evoked often have something of the shuddering quality of a glass scraping across a Ouija board. The words ‘uncanny’, ‘eerie’, ‘spectral’ along with Derrida’s coinage ‘hauntology’ recur throughout the text, and the literature referred to often belongs to tradition of the supernatural – examining the haunted and unsettling sound worlds of Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, Shirley Jackson, M.R. James, J. Meade Falkner’s The Lost Stradivarius and Dickens in his fireside macabre mode. Sounds culled from http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The New Soundtrack Edinburgh University Press

Ways of Listening Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener , David Toop (2010) London: Continuum, 253pp ISBN: 9781441149725

Power, Dominic
The New Soundtrack , Volume 1 (1): 99 – Mar 1, 2011
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WAYS OF LISTENING SINISTER RESONANCE: THE MEDIUMSHIP OF THE LISTENER, DAVID TOOP (2010) London: Continuum, 253pp ISBN: 9781441149725 ed by Dominic Power DOI: 10.3366/sound.2011.0009 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 time is uncanny – a phenomenal presence both in the head, at its point of source and all around – so never entirely distinct from auditory hallucinations. The close listener is ‘like a medium who draws out substance from that which is not entirely there’. (p. xv) The subtitle to David Toop’s Sinister Resonance ‘The Mediumship of the Listener’ casts the listener as occultist, and the soundscapes evoked often have something of the shuddering quality of a glass scraping across a Ouija board. The words ‘uncanny’, ‘eerie’, ‘spectral’ along with Derrida’s coinage ‘hauntology’ recur throughout the text, and the literature referred to often belongs to tradition of the supernatural – examining the haunted and unsettling sound worlds of Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, Shirley Jackson, M.R. James, J. Meade Falkner’s The Lost Stradivarius and Dickens in his fireside macabre mode. Sounds culled from

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