{"product_id":"the-voice-in-the-headphones","title":"The Voice in the Headphones","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe voice in the headphones says, “you’re rolling” . . . \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Voice in the Headphones\u003c\/i\u003e is an experiment in music writing in the form of a long poem centered on the culture of the recording studio. It describes in intricate, prismatic detail one marathon day in a recording studio during which an unnamed musician struggles to complete a film soundtrack. The book extends the form of Grubbs's previous volume \u003ci\u003eNow that the audience is assembled\u003c\/i\u003e, sharing its goal of musicalizing the language of writing about music. Mulling the insight that “studio is the absence of pushback”—now that no audience is assembled—\u003ci\u003eThe Voice in the Headphones\u003c\/i\u003e details one musician's strategies for applying the requisite pressure to the proceedings, for making it count. \u003ci\u003eThe Voice in the Headphones\u003c\/i\u003e is both a literary work and a meditation on sound recording, delivered at a moment in which the commercial recording studio shades into oblivion. It draws upon Grubbs's own history of several decades as a recording artist, and its location could be described as every studio in which he has set foot.","brand":"David Grubbs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43571841302710,"sku":"9781478007685","price":96.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781478007685_49a0d1d6-af4e-41a1-a385-a11411df270f.jpg?v=1725887242","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/the-voice-in-the-headphones","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}