Books
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Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in theTwentieth Century Karin Bijsterveld Since the late nineteenth century, the sounds of technology have been the subject of complaints, regulation, and legislation. By the early 1900s, antinoise leagues in Western…
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Tuning of the World R. Murray Schafer Entertaining recreations of soundscapes of past times and places precede a survey of methods for analyzing present-day soundscapes, distinguishing types of sound, and developing an understanding of the effects of sounds on us…
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Sounding the Margins: Collected Writings 1992-2009 Pauline Oliveros Sounding the Margins: Collected Writings 1992-2009 by composer, performer, humanitarian, and Deep Listening™ founder Pauline Oliveros document her activity over this period and the many recent advances that have taken place in…
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Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music Christoph Cox The groundbreaking Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Continuum; September 2004; paperback original) maps the aural and discursive terrain of vanguard music today. Rather than offering a history of contemporary music, Audio…
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The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction Jonathan Sterne The Audible Past explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction. It describes a distinctive sound culture that gave birth to the sound recording and the transmission devices so ubiquitous in…
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In Search of a Concrete Music Pierre Schæffer Pierre Schaeffer’s In Search of a Concrete Music (À la recherche d’une musique concrète) has long been considered a classic text in electroacoustic music and sound recording. Now Schaeffer’s pioneering workat once…