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The Mysticism of Sound and Music (Shambhala Dragon Editions) Hazrat Inayat Khan Music, according to Sufi teaching, is really a small expression of the overwhelming and perfect harmony of the whole universe—and that is the secret of its amazing power to move us. The Indian…
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Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia Ana María Ochoa Gautier In this audacious book, Ana María Ochoa Gautier explores how listening has been central to the production of notions of language, music, voice, and sound that determine the politics of life. Drawing primarily from…
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Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art Salome Voegelin Listening to Noise and Silence* engages with the emerging practice of sound art and the concurrent development of a discourse and theory of sound. In this original and challenging work, Salomé Voegelin…
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Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts Douglas Kahn This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it–to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded…
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MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Sign, Storage, Transmission) Jonathan Sterne MP3: The Meaning of a Format recounts the hundred-year history of the world’s most common format for recorded audio. Understanding the historical meaning of the MP3 format entails rethinking the place of digital technologies…
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Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen Michel Chion In Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen, French critic and composer Michel Chion reassesses audiovisual media since the revolutionary 1927 debut of recorded sound in cinema, shedding crucial light on the mutual relationship between sound and image in audiovisual perception. Chion…
