Spaces beyond : an introduction -- A beginning : the Riga Polytechnic disco, 1974-76 -- Tintinnabuli and the sacred -- Ritual moments : the RPI festivals, 1976-

Body and space refer to vital and interrelated dimensions in the experience of sounds and music. Sounds have an overwhelming impact on feelings of bodily presen

Listening across millennia, a cultural historian explores the process by which noise today has become as powerfully metaphorical--and intriguing--as the origina