Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sounding art / Marcel Cobussen -- But is it (also) music? / Leigh Landy -- Defining sound art / Laura Maes and Marc Leman -- Sound leads elsewhere / Douglas Kahn -- Dams, weirs, and damn weird ears : post-ergonal sound / Seth Kim-Cohen -- Sound words and sonic fictions : writing the ephemeral / Salomé Voegelin -- Field recording centered composition practices : negotiating the "out-there" with the "in-here" / John Levack Drever -- Soundwalking, sonification and activism / Andrea Polli -- Acoustic knowledge and communication / Marcel Cobussen -- Why I make music with natural sounds / David Rothenberg -- > image > memory > sound > text > / John Wynne -- Institutionalized sound / Frances Dyson -- Sonification and music, music and sonification / Paul Vickers -- String theory : Denis Diderot's philosophy of sound and everything / Veit Erlmann -- Music to the eyes : intersensoriality, culture and the arts / David Howes -- Listening and memory / Barry Truax -- That passing glance : sounding paths between memory and familiarity / Katharine Norman -- The art and science of sensory memory walking / Helmi Järviluoma -- Postphenomenology : sound beyond sound / Don Ihde -- Auditory capital, media publics and the sounding arts / Kate Lacey -- Sonic subjectivities / Ruth Herbert -- Pieces of music as memory capsules / Tiina Männistö-Funk -- Acoustic spaces, identities and communities / Vincent Meelberg -- Acoustic space, community and virtual soundscapes / Barry Truax -- Towards an art of impregnation / Jean-Paul Thibaud -- Restless acoustics, emergent publics / Brandon LaBelle -- Sounding art climate change / Matthew Burtner -- Unsettling performances, soundwalks and loudspeakers : gender in electroacoustic music and other sounding arts / Hannah Bosma -- Developing a cognitive heuristic model of sound art / Linda-Ruth Salter and Barry A. Blesser -- Sonic histories / Vincent Meelberg -- Whistling for the hell of it / Hillel Schwartz -- Shakespeare as sound artist / Bruce R. Smith -- History, archaeology, and de-anthropocentrism in sound art / Mandy-Suzanne Wong -- Weimar activism : Walter Benjamin's work for radio / Erik Granly Jensen -- Mapping sounding art : affect, place, memory / Norie Neumark -- Sound technologies and media / Barry Truax -- What would be a digital sound? / Aden Evens -- Algorithms, affect, and aesthetic listening / David Cecchetto -- Performance with technology : extending the instrument, from prosthetic to aesthetic / Simon Emmerson -- Distributed sounding art : practices in distributing sound / Franziska Schroeder and Pedro Rebelo -- The art of a new technology : early synthesizer sounds / Trevor Pinch -- The privatization of sound space / Mark Grimshaw