anthropology
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Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond (Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology) Stefan Helmreich What is life? What is water? What is sound? In Sounding the Limits of Life, anthropologist Stefan Helmreich investigates…
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Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?: Experiencing Aural Architecture Barry Blesser & Linda-Ruth Salter We experience spaces not only by seeing but also by listening. We can navigate a room in the dark, and “hear” the emptiness of a house without…
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Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression, 3rd edition with a new introduction by the author Steven Feld This thirtieth anniversary edition of Sound and Sentiment makes Steven Feld’s landmark, field-defining book available to a new…
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Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening David Hendy What if history had a sound track? What would it tell us about ourselves? Based on a thirty-part BBC Radio series and podcast, Noise explores the human dramas that have…
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Echoing the Otherworld
Our reader Gautam Pemmaraju, who is also columnist at the great 3quarksdaily blog, has pointed me to a great post he published some months ago, dedicated to explore reverb and echo effects from a mysterious and interesting approach. The whispering gallery…