Books
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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…
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Beyond Vision: Philosophical Essays Casey O’Callaghan Beyond Vision brings together eight essays by Casey O’Callaghan. The works draw theoretical and philosophical lessons about perception, the nature of its objects, and sensory awareness through sustained attention to extra-visual and multisensory forms…
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Theorizing Sound Writing (Music/Culture) Deborah Kapchan The study of listening—aurality—and its relation to writing is the subject of this eclectic edited volume. Theorizing Sound Writing explores the relationship between sound, theory, language, and inscription. This volume contains an impressive lineup…