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Sound Works: A Cultural Theory of Sound Design Holger Schulze What is sound design? What is its function in the early 21st century and into the future? *Sound Works *examines these questions in four parts: Part 1, “Why This Sound?”,…
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Sonic Flux: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics Christoph Cox From Edison’s invention of the phonograph through contemporary field recording and sound installation, artists have become attracted to those domains against which music has always defined itself: noise, silence, and environmental sound.…
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Sonic Fiction (The Study of Sound) Holger Schulze Sonic fiction is everywhere: in conversations about vernacular culture, in music videos, sound art compositions and on record sleeves, in everyday encounters with sonic experiences and in every single piece of writing…
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Lipsynching (The Study of Sound) Merrie Snell What does it mean when a singing voice is detached from an originating body through recording? And how does this affect consumers of recorded song? This book examines the practice of lipsynching to…
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Sirens (The Study of Sound) Michael Bull Sirens are sounds that confront us in daily life, from the sounds of police cars and fire engines to, less often, tornado warnings. Ideologies of sirens embody the protective, the seductive and the…
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Humming (The Study of Sound) Suk-Jun Kim Humming is a ubiquitous and mundane act many of us perform. The fact that we often hum to ourselves, to family members, or to close friends suggests that humming is a personal, intimate…