Books
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Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen Michel Chion In Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen, French critic and composer Michel Chion reassesses audiovisual media since the revolutionary 1927 debut of recorded sound in cinema, shedding crucial light on the mutual relationship between sound and…
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Microsound Curtis Roads Below the level of the musical note lies the realm of microsound, of sound particles lasting less than one-tenth of a second. Recent technological advances allow us to probe and manipulate these pinpoints of sound, dissolving the…
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Haunted Weather: Music, Silence and Memory (Five Star Fiction S.) David Toop “Not just a deeply thoughtful and richly populated survey of modern experimental music, it’s a meditation on hearing itself.”—Guardian Digital technology has changed the ways in which music…
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Lowering the Boom: Critical Studies in Film Sound Jay Beck, Tony Grajeda As the first collection of new work on sound and cinema in over a decade, Lowering the Boom addresses the expanding field of film sound theory and its…
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The Foley Grail: The Art of Performing Sound for Film, Games, and Animation Vanessa Theme Ament Master classic and cutting-edge Foley techniques that will allow you to create rich, convincing sound for any medium, be it film, television, radio, podcasts,…
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The Acoustic City Matthew Gandy & Benny Nielsen The Acoustic City consists of a series of cutting-edge essays on sound and the city, and a specially commissioned CD. The book is comprised of five thematic sections: sound mappings, sound cultures,…