Books
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Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise Michel Chion First published in French in 1998, revised in 2010, and appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion’s Sound addresses the philosophical, interpretive, and practical questions that inform our encounters with sound.…
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Lost Sound: The Forgotten Art of Radio Storytelling Jeff Porter From Archibald MacLeish to David Sedaris, radio storytelling has long borrowed from the world of literature, yet the narrative radio work of well-known writers and others is a story that…
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Instruments for New Music: Sound, Technology, and Modernism Thomas Patteson At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’ new Open Access publishing program for monographs. Player pianos, radio-electric circuits,…
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Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice (Sign, Storage, Transmission) Nina Sun Eidsheim In Sensing Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions how we think about sound, music, and listening. Eidsheim shows how…
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Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq J. Martin Daughtry To witness war is, in large part, to hear it. And to survive it is, among other things, to have listened to it–and to have listened…
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Sonic Virtuality: Sound as Emergent Perception Mark Grimshaw & Tom Garner In Sonic Virtuality: Sound as Emergent Perception, authors Mark Grimshaw and Tom Garner introduce a novel theory that positions sound within a framework of virtuality. Arguing against the acoustic…