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Music's material dependency : what underwater opera can tell us about Odysseus's ears -- The acoustic mediation of voice, self, and others -- Music as action : singing happens before sound -- All voice, all ears : from the figure of sound to the practice of music -- Music as a vibrational practice : singing and listening as everything and nothing
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