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Audible Design: A Plain and Easy Introduction to Sound Composition Trevor Wishart Provides detailed description of the craft of sound transformation using new software instruments, with non-mathematical explanations and recorded music examples of all processes.
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The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind Seth S. Horowitz Every day, we are beset by millions of sounds-ambient ones like the rumble of the train and the hum of air conditioner, as well as more pronounced sounds, such as human speech, music, and…
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The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World Trevor Cox “A lucid and passionate case for a more mindful way of listening… . Anyone who has ever clapped, hollered or yodeled at an echo will delight in [Cox’s] zestful curiosity.”― New…
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Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde Doughas Kahn & Gregory Whitehead Wireless Imagination addresses perhaps the most conspicuous silence in contemporary theory and art criticism, the silence that surrounds the polyphonous histories of audio art. Composed of both original essays and several newly translated…
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Keywords in Sound David Novak & Matt Sakakeeny In twenty essays on subjects such as noise, acoustics, music, and silence, Keywords in Sound presents a definitive resource for sound studies, and a compelling argument for why studying sound matters. Each contributor details their keyword’s intellectual…
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The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies (Oxford Handbooks) Trevor Pinch & Karin Bijsterveld Written by the world’s leading scholars and researchers in the emerging field of sound studies, *The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies *offers new and fully engaging perspectives on the significance of sound…
