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Microsound Curtis Roads Below the level of the musical note lies the realm of microsound, of sound particles lasting less than one-tenth of a second. Recent technological advances allow us to probe and manipulate these pinpoints of sound, dissolving the traditional building blocks of music…
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Haunted Weather: Music, Silence and Memory (Five Star Fiction S.) David Toop “Not just a deeply thoughtful and richly populated survey of modern experimental music, it’s a meditation on hearing itself.”—Guardian Digital technology has changed the ways in which music is perceived, stored, distributed, mediated,…
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Lowering the Boom: Critical Studies in Film Sound Jay Beck, Tony Grajeda As the first collection of new work on sound and cinema in over a decade, Lowering the Boom addresses the expanding field of film sound theory and its significance in rethinking historical models…
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The Foley Grail: The Art of Performing Sound for Film, Games, and Animation Vanessa Theme Ament Master classic and cutting-edge Foley techniques that will allow you to create rich, convincing sound for any medium, be it film, television, radio, podcasts, animation, or games. In The…
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The Acoustic City Matthew Gandy & Benny Nielsen The Acoustic City consists of a series of cutting-edge essays on sound and the city, and a specially commissioned CD. The book is comprised of five thematic sections: sound mappings, sound cultures, the recording of urban sounds…
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On Listening Angus Carlyle & Cathy Lane On Listening is a unique collection of forty multi-disciplinary perspectives drawn from anthropology, bioacoustics, geography, literature, community activism, sociology, religion, philosophy, art history, conflict mediation and the sonic arts including music, ethnomusicology and field recording. These specially commissioned…
