Geosonics

Geosonics takes us to unheard-of aural worlds. From earthquakes to timestretching, from sleep music to Afrofuturism – each chapter is brimming with fresh and provocative ideas. Joshua Dittrich dissects vibrations and fuses frequencies, he takes apart the process of listening and builds it together again, and sensitizes our ears to the challenges of our times. * Alexander Rehding, Fanny Peabody Professor of Music, Harvard University, USA * This brilliant book — riveting, resounding with analyses that constantly burrow into unexpected places — asks how scientists and publics sound out the Earth, offering a range of arresting answers that take readers on adventures across layers of listening, from deep underground to planetary orbit. Prepare to have your sense of the very world itself retuned! * Stefan Helmreich, Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology, MIT, USA * Geosonics carefully examines moments of transductive mediation, unsettling expectations of sonic immediacy and presence. A brilliant contribution to environmental media studies, this book teaches us how to listen through all kinds of soundscapes—internal, nonconscious, seismic, experimental, and utopian. * Melody Jue, Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA * Josh Dittrich drills down on our mediated relationship to the planet we inhabit while also unearthing the elemental nature of our media technologies—digital devices whose components are made of the very Earth they represent. Geosonics mines the doubly extractive nature of media, which produce partial realities ‘by breaking up the earth, one piece at a time, with each world they construct.’ Scholars in media, sound, and environmental studies will all dig it! * Mack Hagood, Associate Professor, Miami University, USA, and author of Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control (2019) *