| What is sound design? What is its function in the early 21st century and into the future?Sound Works examines these questions in four parts: Part 1,"e,Why This Sound?"e,, presents an overview of the modern history of sound design. Part 2 is highly visual and provides a glance onto a sound designer's workbench and the current state of"e,Sonic Labor."e, Part 3 uses cultural analysis to explore our contemporary"e,Living with Sounds."e, The final and fourth part then proposes a series of anthropological and political interpretations of how"e,Sound Works"e, today. This book is not a manual on sound design, it instead argues for a cultural theory of sound design for sound designers and sound artists, for clients who commission a sound design and for researchers in the fields of sound studies, design research, and cultural studies |
