Sound is part of our everyday life experience, but it’s hard to understand and define its meaning and workings; sound can feel strange or unfamiliar when we try to put it into words. Professor Helen Abbott, a specialist in nineteenth-century French poetry and music at the University of Birmingham, introduces us to various ways we might grasp on what sound is, especially through its relationship with voice and language.
For copyright reasons we are unable to include the music recordings themselves in this podcast. However, you can find them listed for listening via Spotify at https://wp.me/p2iX9Z-7qc
