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The Harmony of the Spheres: The Pythagorean Tradition in Music Joscelyn Godwin Professor of Music at Colgate University and a widely respected musicologist, Godwin traces the history of the idea, held since ancient times, that the whole cosmos, with its…
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The Rhythmic Event: Art, Media, and the Sonic Eleni Ikoniadou The sonic has come to occupy center stage in the arts and humanities. In the age of computational media, sound and its subcultures can offer more dynamic ways of accounting…
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Exploring Sound Design for Interactive Media (Design Exploration) Joseph Cancellaro This timely new book provides an excellent foundation in the techniques of sound design production for the interactive arts. Coverage ranges from basic acoustics and digital audio theory to creating,…
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Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art Brandon LaBelle Background Noise follows the development of sound as an artistic medium and illustrates how sound is put to use within modes of composition, installation, and performance. While chronological in its structure, Brandon…
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En Abime: Listening, Reading, Writing: An Archival Fiction Daniela Cascella En Abime explores listening and reading as creative and critical activities driven by memory and return, reshaped into the present. It introduces an idea of aural landscape as a historically…
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Harmonies of Heaven and Earth: Mysticism in Music from Antiquity to the Avant-Garde Joscelyn Godwin Joscelyn Godwin explores music’s effects on matter, living things, and human behavior. Turning to metaphysical accounts of the higher worlds and theories of celestial harmony,…