Introduction -- Imagining sound as the absolute : the case of Sarangadeva / The sensation of sound and imagination in a historical perspective / Imagining the sounds themselves / Auditory imagination : a phenomenological perspective / The necessity of vagueness and ambiguity to the imagining of sound / Listening and/as imagination / Imagination, multimodality, and sound / Some anticipatory, kinesthetic, and dynamic aspects of auditory imagery / Into the sounds of war : imagination, media, and experience / Shifting metaphors in the conceptualization of musical knowledge and learning / Fantasy control : implications for distributed imagination and affect attunement in music and sound / Musical preferences and the imagined self / Burmese spirit worship : music as a medium for the transformation of self / Opera and the South African political / Noise and tranquility at Stonehenge : the political acoustics of cultural heritage / The sonic abject : sound and violence in the legal imagination / Building worlds together with sound and music : imagination as an active engagement between ourselves / Sonic branding : from brand image to brand imagination / Radio imaginaries: music, space, and broadcasting in the 1950s / Audio inside the mind : the poetics of sound / The acoustic imaginations of East Asia / Imagining sonic stories / Sound quality, language, and cognitive metaphors / Speech, sound, technology / Divergent images of early sound experience during infancy and early childhood / The aural dimension in comic art / Sound, museums, and the modulation of the imagination / Cinema as social knowledge : the case of the Beatles in the studio / Concerning the iconic signification of music in cinema / Embodied listening: a moving dimension of imagination / The listener's choice : the sounds of music, meanings, and measurements / Imagining acoustic spaces through listening and acoustic ecology / Presence, environment, and sound and the role of imagination / Music places : imaginative transports of listening / Beacons of sound / The sound of an endless column : how music imagines unimaginable space / Auditory mirrors : about the politics of hearing / What you hear is where you are / Bridging the other-real : video game sound and the imagination

Introduction -- Improvisation : an ideal display of embodied imagination / Anticipated sonic actions and sounds in performance / Motor imagery in perception and performance of sound and music / Music and emergence / Affordances in real, virtual, and imaginary musical performance / Systemic abstractions : the imaginary regime / From rays to ra : music, physics, and the mind / Music analysis and data compression / Bioacoustics : imaging and imagining the animal world / Musical notation as the externalization of imagined, complex sound / "... they call us by our name..." : technology, memory, and metempsychosis / Musical shape cognition / Playing the inner ear : performing the imagination / Music in detention and interrogation : the musical ecology of fear / Augmented unreality : synesthetic artworks and audiovisual hallucinations / Consumer sound / Creating a brand image through music : understanding the psychological mechanisms behind audio branding / Sound and emotion / Voluntary auditory imagery and music pedagogy / A different way of imagining sound : probing the inner auditory worlds of some children on the autism spectrum / Multimodal imagery in the receptive music therapy model guided imagery and music (GIM) / Empirical musical imagery beyond the "mind's ear" / Imaginative listening to music / A hopeful tone : a Waltonian reconstruction of Bloch's musical aesthetics / Sound as environmental presence : toward an aesthetics of sonic atmospheres / The aesthetics of improvisation / Sonic materialism : hearing the arche-sonic / Imagining the seamless cyborg : computer system sounds as embodying technologies / Glitched and warped : transformations of rhythm in the age of the digital audion workstation / On the other side of time : afrofuturism and the sounds of the future / Posthumanist voices in literature and opera

Volume 1. Foundations ; Society and identity ; Language ; Image ; Space and place -- Volume 2. Musical performance ; Systems and technologies ; Psychology ; Aesthetics ; Posthumanism.