Future Sounds: The Temporality of Noise - Paperback

by Stephen Kennedy (Author)

A 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

What can the sounds of today tell us about the future? Can an analysis of sound and sonic practices allow us to make reliable predictions in relation to wider social phenomena? And what might they tell us about technology in a world where futurology is such a frenzied and busy field? In order to answer these questions, this book tests a range of propositions that connect noise, sound and music to political, economic and technological events. Hence it is a book about historical trajectories and conflicting ideas about time and the necessity to re-contextualize and interpret them in the digital age.

Author Biography

Stephen Kennedy is Principal Lecturer and Research Coordinator in the Department of Creative Professions & Digital Arts at the University of Greenwich, UK.