Acknowledgments vii
Sound Objects: An Introduction / James A. Steintrager, with Rey Chow 1
I. Genealogies
1. Reflections on the Sound Object and Reduced Listening / Michel Chion 23
2. Pierre Schaeffer and the (Recorded) Sound Source / John Dack 33
3. The Fluctuating Sound Object / Brian Kane 53
II. Aural Reification, Sonic Commodification
4. Listening with Adorno, Again: Nonobjective Objectivity and the Possibility of Critique / James A. Steintrager 73
5. Spectral Objects: On the Fetish Character of Music Technologies / Jonathan Sterne 94
III. Acousmatic Complications
6. Listening after "Acousmaticity": Notes on a Transdisciplinary Problematic / Rey Chow 113
7. The Skin of the Voice: Acousmatic Illusions, Ventriloquial Listening / Pooja Rangan 130
IV. Sound Abjects and Nonhuman Relations
8. The Acoustic Abject: Sound and the Legal Imagination / Veit Erlmann 151
9. The Alluring Objecthood of the Heartbeat / Jairo Moreno and Gavin Steingo 167
10. On Nonhuman Sound—Sound as Relation / Georgina Born 185
V. Memory Traces
11. The Sound of Arche-Cinema / John Mowitt 211
12. Listening to the Sirens / Michael Bull 228
13. Entities Inertias Faint Beings: Drawing as Sounding / David Toop 246
Bibliography 265
Contributors 281
Index 285