Sonic City

Sonic City

Author: Steve Ferzacca

Publisher: National University of Singapore Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789813251083

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Enter the basement of Peninsular Plaza, a shopping mall in central Singapore, and you'll descend into rock history. Since the days of the now-legendary group The Straydogs, this area has served as the locus for amateur and semi-professional musicians. For the bands and their fans, rock music defines their lives in Singapore. It is not uncommon to see legends from the 1960s jamming out with new up-and-coming artists, and the basement venue has afforded expected and unexpected opportunities for work, play, and meaning in the contemporary music scene in this Southeast Asian city-state. The emergent quality of this community is simultaneously fiercely cosmopolitan, and entirely Singaporean. Sonic City is an ethnography of the community centered around these musicians, their family, friends, and fans, and the way they make music and a way of life. It considers the aesthetic dispositions, cultural values, ideologies, and identities within the constraints of urban life in the city. Grounded in debates from sound studies and based on five years of deeply participatory sonic ethnography, Steve Ferzacca draws on Bruno Latour's ideas of the social continually emergent, constantly in-the-making, associations of heterogeneous elements of human and non-human mediators and intermediaries to portray a community entangled in vernacular and national heritage projects. What emerges is a vernacular heritage drawing upon Singapore's unique place in Southeast Asian and World history.


Sonic the Hedgehog, Vol. 5: Crisis City

Sonic the Hedgehog, Vol. 5: Crisis City

Author: Ian Flynn

Publisher: IDW Publishing

Published: 2020-02-12

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 1684068347

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Can Sonic save a city in crisis... or has he finally met his match? Dr. Eggman has launched his most extreme plan yet, and Sonic's already racing to catch up! As Dr. Eggman drowns entire cities in his Metal Virus, creating hoards of Zombots—civilians infected with the virus to become zombified machines—Sonic himself struggles to keep his infection in check! And when Sonic's friends start falling victim, it's clear no one is safe! Collects issues #17–20 of the Sonic the Hedgehog series.


Sonic Rupture

Sonic Rupture

Author: Jordan Lacey

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2017-12-28

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1501338579

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Sonic Rupture applies a practitioner-led approach to urban soundscape design, which foregrounds the importance of creative encounters in global cities. This presents an alternative to those urban soundscape design approaches concerned with managing the negative health impacts of noise. Instead, urban noise is considered to be a creative material and cultural expression that can be reshaped with citywide networks of sonic installations. By applying affect theory the urban is imagined as an unfolding of the Affective Earth, and noise as its homogenous (and homogenizing) voice. It is argued that noise is an expressive material with which sonic practitioners can interface, to increase the creative possibilities of urban life. At the heart of this argument is the question of relationships: how do we augment and diversify those interconnections that weave together the imaginative life and the expressions of the land? The book details seven sound installations completed by the author as part of a creative practice research process, in which the sonic rupture model was discovered. The sonic rupture model, which aims to diversify human experiences and urban environments, encapsulates five soundscape design approaches and ten practitioner intentions. Multiple works of international practitioners are explored in relation to the discussed approaches. Sonic Rupture provides the domains of sound art, music, creative practice, urban design, architecture and environmental philosophy with a unique perspective for understanding those affective forces, which shape urban life. The book also provides a range of practical and conceptual tools for urban soundscape design that can be applied by the sonic practitioner.


Essays on Psychogeography and the City as Performance

Essays on Psychogeography and the City as Performance

Author: John C Green

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2024-01-26

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1527555747

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With 70% of the world’s population expected to live in urban environments by 2050, cities are poised to become the most significant spaces to shape personal and communal identity. As contemporary cities become “event destinations” a dialogue is emerging between the performing arts and the urban context and social fabric. Inspired by the principles of Psychogeography, this collection of essays highlights the performative aspects of cities as landscapes of creative inspiration where curiosity, imagination, playfulness, and the energy of the street combine with contemporary performance practices to create immersive public art experiences. Written by an international cohort of scholar-artists, these essays offer arts practitioners, urban specialists, and general readers a practical guide to experiencing the cityscape as the Artscape.


Sonic the Hedgehog #225

Sonic the Hedgehog #225

Author: Ian Flynn

Publisher: Archie Comic Publications, Inc.

Published:

Total Pages: 29

ISBN-13: 1619882396

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"One Step Forward" Sonic's 25th Anniversary begins HERE with a double-sized Gatefold cover! Dr. Eggman's newest creation threatens all of Mobius, forcing Sonic to team up with the evil Ixis Naugus. It's a race against time with a world-changing ending you won't believe! The prelude to "Genesis" starts here with this anniversary issue!


Sonic the Hedgehog #262

Sonic the Hedgehog #262

Author: Ian Flynn

Publisher: Archie Comic Publications, Inc.

Published: 2014-07-16

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13: 1627384413

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Catch some sun and ride the wave as the aquatic adventure continues in "Waves of Change" Part Three! Sonic faces a city invasion by the ominous Dark Gaia Monsters! To make it even worse, the invasion is underwater—and Sonic can’t swim! As the struggle turns desperate, will it be Amy’s mission to find the key to saving them all, or will Sonic be left to drown? Then, in “The Light in the Dark” Part Two, the Freedom Fighters find what they’re looking for—but will their own divisions bring them down? Featuring new cover art from Ben Bates!


Hearings

Hearings

Author: United States. Congress Senate

Publisher:

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 920

ISBN-13:

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Acoustic Territories

Acoustic Territories

Author: Brandon LaBelle

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2010-04-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1441161368

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A remarkable exploration of how sound permeates all aspects of life - from the streets to our homes, and from shopping malls to the underground.


The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World

The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World

Author: Trevor Cox

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2014-02-10

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 039324282X

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"A lucid and passionate case for a more mindful way of listening to and engaging with musical, natural, and manmade sounds." —New York Times In this tour of the world’s most unexpected sounds, Trevor Cox—the “David Attenborough of the acoustic realm” (Observer)—discovers the world’s longest echo in a hidden oil cavern in Scotland, unlocks the secret of singing sand dunes in California, and alerts us to the aural gems that exist everywhere in between. Using the world’s most amazing acoustic phenomena to reveal how sound works in everyday life, The Sound Book inspires us to become better listeners in a world dominated by the visual and to open our ears to the glorious cacophony all around us.


Sonic Super Special Magazine #2

Sonic Super Special Magazine #2

Author: Ken Penders

Publisher: Archie Comic Publications, Inc.

Published:

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 1619887843

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The adventure continues! Sonic Super Special Magazine is packed with more than 100 pages of comics, news, features, never before seen artwork and a cover by Sonic artist extraordinaire Tracy Yardley! This quarterly collection takes new readers on a take a look back at the story that changed everything, Sonic Adventure! From the discovery of the United Federation to a deadly close encounter with the monstrous Chaos, Sonic super fans will also be treated with part two of the Sonic Time Line, featuring more brand new art from Jamal Peppers!