Books
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Sound Materials: A Compendium of Sound Absorbing Materials for Architecture and Design Tyler Adams Sound Materials is a definitive resource for architects, designers and creative professionals – the first publication of its kind to catalogue over 100 sound absorbing materials with full colour…
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An Epistemology of Noise Cecile Malaspina What do we understand ‘noise’ to be? The term ‘noise’ no longer suggests only aesthetic judgement, as in acoustic or visual noise, and is now relevant to domains as varied as communication theory, physics…
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Inflamed Invisible: Collected Writings on Art and Sound, 1976-2018 (Goldsmiths Press / Sonics Series (2)) David Toop **A rich collection of essays tracing the relationship between art and sound. **** In the 1970s David Toop became preoccupied with the possibility…
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Media, Sound, and Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean (Pitt Latin American Series) Alejandra Bronfman, Andrew Grant Wood Outside of music, the importance of sound and listening have been greatly overlooked in Latin American history. Visual media has dominated…
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The amplification of souls Gilles Aubry Amplified Souls is a live sound performance by Gilles Aubry based on his research on the Amplified Religious Soundscape of Kinshasa, DRC, which took its place in 2011 for the Global Prayers project. Aubry…
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The Sonic Persona: An Anthropology of Sound Holger Schulze In The Sonic Persona, Holger Schulze undertakes a critical study of some of the most influential studies in sound since the 19th century in the natural sciences, the engineering sciences, and…