Books
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Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema David Sonnenschein Offers user-friendly knowledge and stimulating exercises to help compose story, develop characters and create emotion through skillful creation of the sound track.
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The Mysticism of Sound and Music (Shambhala Dragon Editions) Hazrat Inayat Khan Music, according to Sufi teaching, is really a small expression of the overwhelming and perfect harmony of the whole universe—and that is the secret of its amazing power…
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Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia Ana María Ochoa Gautier In this audacious book, Ana María Ochoa Gautier explores how listening has been central to the production of notions of language, music, voice, and sound that determine the politics…
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Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art Salome Voegelin Listening to Noise and Silence* engages with the emerging practice of sound art and the concurrent development of a discourse and theory of sound. In this original…
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Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts Douglas Kahn This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it–to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on…
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MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Sign, Storage, Transmission) Jonathan Sterne MP3: The Meaning of a Format recounts the hundred-year history of the world’s most common format for recorded audio. Understanding the historical meaning of the MP3 format entails rethinking…