Review of Brian Kane,Sound Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice(Oxford, 2014)
Landon Morrison · Music Theory Online · 2015
3] Kane opens with a series of objections to Schaeffer's theory, characterizing it as ahistorical, mythic, phantasmagoric, and ontologically problematic (10).The book addresses these concerns by unhitching the acousmatic experience from the reduced listening practice, thereby sidelining Schaeffer's intentional aestheticization of the sound object.Kane's revised definition of acousmatic listening takes the following position: