Author: eme isaza
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New Books: Between Air and Electricity, Ludic Dreaming, Beyond Unwanted Sound, Musical Encounters With Deleuze and Guattari
Bloomsbury has announced four upcoming books on sound related topics. Below are links to ebook versions, although all of them are also available in paperback and hardcover. Click on each title for more info. Between Air and Electricity — Microphones and…
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Making Sense of Sounds, Between Humans and Machines
Lead by Mark Plumbley in UK, Making Sense of sounds is a research project on data analysis and machine learning of sound archives, focusing on “how to allow people to search, browse and interact with sounds.” It started on 14…
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Between Air and Electricity: Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments Cathy van Eck Composers and sound artists have explored for decades how to transform microphones and loudspeakers from “inaudible” technology into genuinely new musical instruments. While the sound reproduction industry…
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Musical Encounters with Deleuze and Guattari Pirkko Moisala (Editor), Taru Leppänen (Editor), Milla Tiainen (Editor), Hanna Väätäinen (Editor) This is the first volume to mobilize encounters between the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and the rich developments in…
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Ludic Dreaming: How to Listen Away from Contemporary Technoculture David Cecchetto Ludic Dreaming uses (sometimes fictional) dreams as a method for examining sound and contemporary technoculture’s esoteric exchanges, refusing both the strictures of visually dominated logic and the celebratory tone…
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Beyond Unwanted Sound: Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism Marie Thompson Noise is so often a ‘stench in the ear’ – an unpleasant disturbance or an unwelcome distraction. But there is much more to noise than what greets the ear as…