...Against the Grain<subtitle>Medical Anthropology in the Anthropocene</subtitle> ...

... touch texture grain sound ...

... sound object reduced listening grain bearing ...

... This chapter argues that the tactility of the dancefloor is also evoked in electronic dance music, both thematically and texturally. This cluster of musical styles engages touch through beats, flesh, and grain; that is, it (1) emphasizes percussion (especially at low frequencies and high volume...

... as a phenomenon in itself, independent of materiality. These concepts led Schaeffer to attempt a new classification and description of sounds, in which the traditional aspects of musical sound (pitch, duration, intensity, and timbre) would be rethought in different terms: mass, maintenance, grain, caliber...

... Hall shows how making artworks, creating new archives, curating exhibitions, writing new art histories, and reimagining the museum are all part of the “critical work” required to unsettle and disturb the grain of official culture and established museum historiography. museum...

..., maintenance, grain, caliber, bearing, and so forth. The second half of the chapter examines the ongoing relevance of Schaeffer’s ideas for the analysis of sound, including the many reasons why sound is difficult to treat like an object: the propensity of certain sonic characteristics to stand out...