Books

  • Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear

    Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear

    Bodies of Sound greatly contribute to sound studies with 220 pages in which dozens of feminist voices speak, encounter, resonate, and radically listen. Edited by Irene Revell and Sarah Shin and to be published November 12th this year by Silver…

  • Geosonics

    Geosonics

    Bloomsbury has released Geosonics: Listening Through Earth’s Soundscapes by Joshua Dittrich. How do we listen to the earth? That is the central question posed in Geosonics: Listening Through Earth’s Soundscapes. Working across sound studies, media theory, and environmental media studies,…

  • Sonic Faction: Audio Essay as Medium and Method

    Sonic Faction: Audio Essay as Medium and Method

    The other day I was reading Christopher Haworth’s fantastic interview with Robin Mackay, where he talks about the experimental audio essays they used to experiment with back in the CCRU days. Their “sonic faction” developed a truly visionary idea of…

  • A Resonant Ecology

    A Resonant Ecology

    Duke University Press is releasing Max Ritts’ Resonant Ecology book on October 4 this year, as part of the Sign Storage Transmission series edited by Lisa Gitelman and Jonathan Sterne. “In A Resonant Ecology, Max Ritts traces how sound’s integration…

  • Sound Affects: A User’s Guide

    Sound Affects: A User’s Guide

    New book in the Thinking Media series at Bloomsbury. Edited by Sharon Jane Mee and Luke Robinson, “Sound Affects: A User’s Guide” explores both in the ways sound affects and also how affects actually sound. E-Book already available. Paperback available…

  • Spectres IV: A Thousand Voices

    Spectres IV: A Thousand Voices

    Fourth volume of these amazing series which address different topics of sonic reality, this time dedicated to the voice. “The voice is everywhere, infiltrating everything, making civilisation, marking out territories with infinite borders, spreading from the farthest reaches to the…