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In The Field: The Art of Field Recording Cathy Lane & Angus Carlyle In The Field offers a collection of interviews with contemporary sound artists who use field recording in their work. The book explores some of the fundamental issues…
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Playing with Words: The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice Cathy Lane < p>Playing with words: the spoken word in artistic practice edited by Cathy Lane is a collection of responses from over 40 leading contemporary composers and artists who were…
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The Music of the Spheres: Music, Science, and the Natural Order of the Universe Jamie James For centuries, scientists and philosophers believed that the universe was a stately, ordered mechanism, both mathematical and musical. The perceived distances between objects in…
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Lexicon of the Mouth: Poetics and Politics of Voice and the Oral Imaginary Brandon LaBelle Lexicon of the Mouth surveys the oral cavity as the central channel by which self and surrounding are brought into relation. Questions of embodiment and…
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Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts Douglas Kahn Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global…
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Ocean of Sound David Toop Ocean of Sound begins in 1889 at the Paris Exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed. A culture absorbed in perfume, light and ambient sound developed in response to the intangibility of 20th century…