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Podcast: New Books in Art
Episode: Jason Weiss, "Listenings" (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023)
Description: Listenings (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023) is a collection of meditations on the art of experiencing sound. The writings reflect Jason Weiss's passion for illuminating details, momentary experiences, and the most subtle and brief of auditory stimulations to consider their role in thought and emotion. The chapter-sections, each on a particular subtheme, invite us to visit concerts, to analyze music, to interpret sounds far and near, from friends, parents, relatives, and strangers, and to appreciate and esteem them as a key part of the human condition.Listenings summons readers to reflect but also to consider listening as an artform, a dia...