Description: A groundbreaking collection that studies noise not merely as a sonic phenomenon but as an essential component of all communication and information systems.
Brief description: Michael N. Goddard is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in Film, Television and Moving image at the University of Westminster, UK. He has published widely on international cinema, audiovisual culture, and media theory. He recently published a book, Impossible Cartographies on the cinema of Raúl Ruiz. He has also been doing research on the fringes of popular music culminating in co-editing two books on noise, Reverberations and Resonances. Most recently, his research focuses on contemporary audiovisual popular culture and urban space. He is currently a Special Visiting Researcher, working with a team of researchers at Unisinos, Brazil on the project, "Cities, Creative Industries and Popular Music Scenes."
Review Quotes:
"Michael Goddard, Benjamin Halligan, and Paul Hegarty are three exceptional individuals, at least insofar as thinking about noise is concerned...I recommend Reverberations for its novel insights into aspects of sound we all too often simply despise or dismiss out of hand." --Michael Saffle, Virginia Tech, Journal of Musicological Research
"Reverberations stands as a thoroughgoing map of the overarching philosophical terrain ... constitutes a meaningful contribution to the study of musical aesthetics. [Reverberations and Resonances] are a significant achievement, a comprehensive collection of thinking to date about where noise fits into our cultural lives, pointing forward towards a fertile development of the field." - Adam Behr, University of Edinburgh, UK, Popular Music