“Sonic Phantoms: Composition with Auditory Phantasmatic Presence” by Barbara Ellison and Thomas Bey William Bailey

"In this book, Barbara Ellison and Thomas B. W. Bailey lay out and explore the mystifying and evanescent musical territory of "sonic phantoms": auditory illusions within the musical material that convey a "phantasmatic" presence.

Structured around a large body of compositional work developed by Ellison over the past decade, sonic phantoms are revealed and illustrated as they arise through a diverse array of musical sources, materials, techniques, and compositional tools: voices (real and synthetic), field recordings, instrument manipulation, object amplification, improvisation, and recording studio techniques. Somehow inherent in all music—and perhaps in all sound—sonic phantoms lurk and stalk with the promise of mystery and elevation. We just need to conjure them."

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