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Geosonics
Bloomsbury has released Geosonics: Listening Through Earth’s Soundscapes by Joshua Dittrich. How do we listen to the earth? That is the central question posed in Geosonics: Listening Through Earth’s Soundscapes. Working across sound studies, media theory, and environmental media studies,…
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The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk
Description By reinterpreting 20th-century poetry as a listening to and writing through noise, The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk constructs a literary history of noise through poetic sound and performance. This book traces how poets figure noise in…
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Making It Heard: A History of Brazilian Sound Art
Making It Heard: A History of Brazilian Sound Art, new book edited by Rui Chaves,Fernando Iazzetta and published at Bloomsbury. From the mid-20th century to present, the Brazilian art, literature, and music scene have been witness to a wealth of creative approaches…
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Listening to the City, Free Handbook by MIT CoLab
MIT Community Innovators Lab has published “Listening to the city Handbook” for free (PDF). Overview This book is the result of a year long collaboration that arose from a shared desire to explore how sound – including the human voice –…
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Uniformbooks reprinting ‘In the Field: The art of field recording’
‘In the Field‘, by Cathy Lane and Angus Carlyle is probably one of the most inspiring books on field recording/listening. It’s a valuable resource that truly deserves a reprint, which is happening on March 22 at Uniformbooks. This is unique…
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New English Translation of Pierre Schaeffer’s Influential Treatise on Musical Objects
If there’s an influential 20th century research, it is Pierre Schaeffer’s one. Not only for art and music, but for engineering and psychology. Although focused on his idea of the musical object, the Treatise on Musical Objects is an oasis…