Just Beyond Listening: Essays of Sonic Encounter

Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality. In a series of essays, Michael C. Heller considers how sound functions in dialogue with a range of sensory and affective modalities, including physical co—presence, textual interference, and spectral haunting. The text investigates sound that is experienced in other parts of the body, altered by cross—wirings of the senses, weaponized by the military, or mediated and chan...