Books
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Understanding the Art of Sound Organization Leigh Landy The art of sound organization, also known as electroacoustic music, uses sounds not available to traditional music making, including prerecorded, synthesized, and processed sounds. The body of work of such sound-based music…
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Silence and Listening as Rhetorical Arts Cheryl Glenn & Krista Ratcliffe In Silence and Listening as Rhetorical Arts, editors Cheryl Glenn and Krista Ratcliffe bring together seventeen essays by new and established scholars that demonstrate the value and importance of…
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Sonic Possible Worlds: Hearing the Continuum of Sound Salome Voegelin Inspired by its use in literary theory, film criticism and the discourse of game design, Salomé Voegelin adapts and develops “possible world theory” in relation to sound. David K Lewis’…
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Thousand-Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound David Rothenberg In Thousand Mile Song, musician and philosopher David Rothenberg uses the enigma of whale sounds to explore whether we can truly understand nonhuman minds. Interviewing scholars around the world…
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MicroBionic (revised and expanded 2nd edition) Thomas Bey William Bailey Micro Bionic is an exciting survey of electronic music and sound art from cultural critic and mixed-media artist Thomas Bey William Bailey. This superior revised edition includes all of the…
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On Sonic Art Trevor Wishart In his ground-breaking book On Sonic Art Trevor Wishart takes a wide-ranging look at the new developments in music-making and musical aesthetics made possible by the advent of the computer and digital information processing. His…