2024 Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award Winner 2024 Eric Hoffer Academic Press Award Winner 2024 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Short List A memoir in essays, The Sound of Undoing deconstructs the way sound has overwhelmingly shaped Paige Towers's life. Each essay focuses on a different sound, some perceptible-like the sound of a loon call or gunshot-and others abstract-like the sound of awakening. Given a hypersensitivity to noise from which she has both suffered and benefited since childhood, Towers uses these sounds as a ...
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2024 Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award Winner 2024 Eric Hoffer Academic Press Award Winner 2024 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Short List A memoir in essays, The Sound of Undoing deconstructs the way sound has overwhelmingly shaped Paige Towers's life. Each essay focuses on a different sound, some perceptible-like the sound of a loon call or gunshot-and others abstract-like the sound of awakening. Given a hypersensitivity to noise from which she has both suffered and benefited since childhood, Towers uses these sounds as a starting point for making sense of past events. She reflects on the estrangement of a beloved sister, sexual abuse and assault, and the link between mental illness and noise in her family, as well as nature, religion, violence, and other themes. Experimental in form and provocative in content, The Sound of Undoing also makes use of research on silence, nature and noise pollution, listening, sound art, autonomous sensory meridian response, and the acoustic environment in general. By exploring memories and feelings triggered by certain noises, this lyrical meditation untangles a life infused with meaning through sound.
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