By David Toop
The background of listening has to be made out of the narratives of fable and fiction, 'silent' arts comparable to portray, the resonance of structure, auditory artefacts and nature. In such contexts, sound frequently features as a metaphor for mystical revelation, forbidden wishes, formlessness, the unknown, and the subconscious. as though examining a map of hitherto unexplored territory, Sinister Resonance deciphers sounds and silences buried in the ghostly horrors of Arthur Machen, Shirley Jackson, Charles Dickens, M.R. James and Edgar Allen Poe, Dutch style portray from Rembrandt to Vermeer, artists as various as Francis Bacon and Juan Munoz, and the writing of many modernist authors together with Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, and James Joyce.
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