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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 improvises on a quad sound…
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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 in media theory, confronting them…
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Flutter Echo: Living Within Sound David Toop Employing intensified studies into World Music in relation to popular (as well as marginalized) contemporary trends, David Toop has created one of the most distinctive histories of modern music thinking for our times. Flutter Echo is his memoir…
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Sound Objects James A. Steintrager, Rey Chow Is a sound an object, an experience, an event, or a relation? What exactly does the emerging discipline of sound studies study? Sound Objects pursues these questions while exploring how history, culture, and mediation entwine with sound’s elusive objectivity.…
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Remapping Sound Studies Gavin Steingo, Jim Sykes The contributors to Remapping Sound Studies intervene in current trends and practices in sound studies by reorienting the field toward the global South. Attending to disparate aspects of sound in Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, the…
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Sound Art: Sound as a Medium of Art (The MIT Press) Essays and images that map art’s new sonic cosmos, illustrated in color throughout. This milestone volume maps fifty years of artists’ engagement with sound. Since the beginning of the new millennium, numerous historical and…
