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The Sounds of Early Cinema (Early Cinema in Review: Proceedings of Domitor) Richard Abel & Charles F. Altman The Sounds of Early Cinema is devoted exclusively to a little-known, yet absolutely crucial phenomenon: the ubiquitous presence of sound in early…
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The Sound Studies Reader Jonathan Sterne The Sound Studies Reader blends recent work that self-consciously describes itself as ‘sound studies’ along with earlier and lesser-known scholarship on sound from across the humanities and social sciences. The Sound Studies Reader touches…
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Audible Design: A Plain and Easy Introduction to Sound Composition Trevor Wishart Provides detailed description of the craft of sound transformation using new software instruments, with non-mathematical explanations and recorded music examples of all processes.
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Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde Doughas Kahn & Gregory Whitehead Wireless Imagination addresses perhaps the most conspicuous silence in contemporary theory and art criticism, the silence that surrounds the polyphonous histories of audio art. Composed of both original…
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The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies (Oxford Handbooks) Trevor Pinch & Karin Bijsterveld Written by the world’s leading scholars and researchers in the emerging field of sound studies, *The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies *offers new and fully engaging perspectives…
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The World Is Sound: Nada Brahma: Music and the Landscape of Consciousness Joachim-Ernst Berendt Scientists have only recently learned that the particles of an oxygen atom vibrate in a major key and that blades of grass ‘sing.” Europe’s foremost jazz…