Composing Resonance: Culture and Collaboration in Sonic Practices

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Michelle Comstock and Mary Hocks New Media Theory Edited by Byron Hawk Information and Pricing 978-1-64317-454-9 (paperback, $24.95); 978-1-64317-455-6 (PDF, $9.95); 978-1-64317-456-3 (EPUB, $9.95) © 2024 by Parlor Press. 144 pages, with notes, illustrations, bibliography, and index. Bookstores : Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. What People Are Saying “I’m excited by the way Composing Resonance brings together classroom experiences, experimental sound art, and musicians’ practices under the headings of material and sonic rhetorics. It is an exciting expansion of work by the Comstock and Hocks, whose research has already recursively influenced many of the scholars cited in this volume.” — Eric Detweiler , author of Responsible Pedagogy: Moving Beyond Authority and Mastery in Higher Education About This Book The visual and digital turns in both media studies and writing studies have ushered in a welcome focus on sound studies and sonic composition. Composing Resonance: Culture and Collaboration in Sonic Practices advances current discussions of sonic rhetoric as well as multimodal rhetorics and digital writing more generally. Comstock and Hocks expand interdisciplinary conversations on cultural and environmental soundscapes, music production, and sonic archives. Composing Resonance offers an important new cultural and rhetorical framework for situated sonic practices. Michelle Comstock and Mary Hocks demonstrate how sound artists and musicians’ ritualized practices of embodied listening create an acute sense of presence, evoke multiple pasts, and powerfully contribute to our experience of location, personal soundscapes, and identity in time and space. Such sonic practices also offer important lessons for writing and composition students. The sound artists and musicians Comstock and Hocks study have developed practices for resonating with and shaping this vibrant medium, including priming the ear/body to receive diverse sound