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Sonic Art: An Introduction to Electroacoustic Music Composition Adrian Moore Written by an active composer, performer and educator, Sonic Art: An Introduction to Electroacoustic Music Composition provides a clear and informative introduction to the compositional techniques behind electroacoustic music. It brings together theory, aesthetics, context…
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Three New Books: The Listening Reader, The Order of Sounds, Sonic Rupture
The amount of books around sound and listening keeps growing. Here are three new titles recently added to our sonic bookshelf: The Listening Reader Edited by Sam Belinfante and Joseph Kohlmaier Available at Cours de Poétique for £15.00. “Studies in sound continue to emerge as…
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Sonic Rupture: A Practice-led Approach to Urban Soundscape Design Jordan Lacey Sonic Rupture applies a practitioner-led approach to urban soundscape design, which foregrounds the importance of creative encounters in global cities. This presents an alternative to those urban soundscape design approaches concerned with managing the…
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The Listening Reader Sam Belinfante and Joseph Kohlmaier The Listening Reader brings together a number of essays that explore the role of sound and listening in the context of contemporary art. They engage with the specific timbre that the act of listening, and the paradigm…
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The Order of Sounds: A Sonorous Archipelago Francois J. Bonnet The subtlety, complexity, and variety of modes of hearing has meant that it has rarely received the same philosophical attention as the visual. Francois J. Bonnet makes a compelling case for the irreducible heterogeneity of…
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The Beautiful Lies of Sound Design
In a TEDx event in Athens, sound designer Tasos Fratzolas from Soundsnap library shares some interesting reflections about sound design and the process of illusion and storytelling made in the acousmatic when working around the audiovisual contract created in movies, tv shows and videogames. By playing with several sonic and visual examples,…
