In this book, Barbara Ellison and Thomas B. W. Bailey lay out and explore the mystifying and evanescent musical territory of ‘sonic phantoms’: auditory illusions within the musical material that convey a ‘phantasmatic’ presence. Structured around a large body of compositional work developed by Ellison over the past decade, sonic phantoms are revealed and illustrated as they arise through a diverse array of musical sources, materials, techniques, and compositional tools: voices (real and synthetic), field recordings, instrument manipulation, object amplification, improvisation, and recording studio techniques. Somehow inherent in all music-and perhaps in all sound-sonic phantoms lurk and stalk with the promise of mystery and elevation. We just need to conjure them.Additional ISBNs9781501347023Sonic Phantoms: Composition with Auditory Phantasmatic Presence 1st Edition is written by Barbara Ellison; Thomas Bey William Bailey and published by Bloomsbury Academic. ISBNs for Sonic Phantoms are 9781501347047, 1501347047 and the print ISBNs are 9781501391767, 1501391763. Additional ISBNs include 9781501347023.