The Sonic Real: Hearing the Other

What do we hear—and what escapes our hearing? In experimental music and sound art, sound is more than just an acoustic event: it is transformed by spaces, media, bodies, and our own perception. *The Sonic Real: Hearing the Other*explores how music can make us experience a reality that cannot be fully grasped or represented.

In conversations and essays, philosophical reflections meet concrete musical experiences. Christoph Cox, Markus Rautzenberg, Rahma Khazam, Luc Döbereiner, Charles Curtis, Bernhard Rietbrock, and Sabine Sanio discuss the limits of the audible, the autonomy of sound, and the role of technical media. Works by Alvin Lucier, Éliane Radigue, and Florian Hecker demonstrate how these questions take shape in artistic practice.

Edited by Sabine Sanio, this volume invites readers to listen to contemporary music and sound art in a new way and to reflect on the relationship between sound, perception, and reality. A book for anyone who not only wants to listen to music but also to understand it and explore its deeper meanings.

The book will be released on October 31 and is available for pre-order now!