THE HUM OF THE WORLD

The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it. Balancing big ideas with playful wit and lyrical prose, this imaginative volume identifies the role of sound in Western experience as the prim ary medium in which the presence and persistence of life acquire tangible form. The positive experience of aliveness is not merely i n accord with sound, but inaccessible, even inconceivable, without it. Lawrence Kramers poetic book roves freely over music, media, language,...[Read more]