There is no soundtrack is a study of how sound and image produce meaning
in contemporary experimental media art by artists ranging from Chantal
Akerman to Nam June Paik to Tanya Tagaq. It contextualises these works
and artists through key ideas in sound studies: voice, noise, listening,
the soundscape and more. The book argues that experimental media art
produces radical and new audio-visual relationships challenging the
visually dominated discourses in art, media and the human sciences. In
addition to directly addressing what Jonathan Sterne calls 'visual
hegemony', it also explores the lack of diversity within sound studies
by focusing on practitioners from transnational and diverse backgrounds.
As such, it contributes to a growing interdisciplinary scholarship,
building new, more complex and reverberating frameworks to collectively
sonify the study of culture.