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Tone: A Study in Musical Acoustics Siegmund Levarie This book’s purpose is to investigate tone in terms of musical values and in many ways is an outgrowth of a course taught by the authors and some of their colleagues over the last ten years. The…
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century Alex Ross In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris…
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Sound Design and Science Fiction William Whittington Sound is half the picture, and since the 1960s, film sound not only has rivaled the innovative imagery of contemporary Hollywood cinema, but in some ways has surpassed it in status and privilege because of the emergence of…
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Field Recording: from Research to Wrap: An Introduction to Gathering Sound Effects Paul Virostek Interested in learning about field recording? Curious about how to record sound effects in cities and the wilderness? Field Recording: From Research to Wrap – An Introduction to Gathering Sound Effects…
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The Audio Programming Book Richard Boulanger & Victor Lazzarini This comprehensive handbook of mathematical and programming techniques for audio signal processing will be an essential reference for all computer musicians, computer scientists, engineers, and anyone interested in audio. Designed to be used by readers with…
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Designing Sound Andy Farnell Designing Sound teaches students and professional sound designers to understand and create sound effects starting from nothing. Its thesis is that any sound can be generated from first principles, guided by analysis and synthesis. The text takes a practitioner’s perspective, exploring…
