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Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise, New Book by Michel Chion

Duke University Press has announced the arrival of Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise, the first English translation of Michel Chion‘s Le Son book, originally published in French in 1998 and revised in 2010, where the author explores a wide variety of…

November 24, 2015
New Book: The Auditory Culture Reader, 2nd Edition

Many of you may already know The Auditory Culture Reader, a wonderful compilation of essays and reflections edited by Michael Bull and Les Back and contributed by a fine selection of authors. Such edition is completely fantastic, well organized and able to…

November 16, 2015
josh mason – hellified irie

Poetry is more silent than sonic, because it is, above all, an act of listening. Poems are not sung as much they are heard, like the notes of a guitar, the pounding of sea waves or the endless sound of a melody’s furtive…

November 13, 2015
New Book: Thresholds of Listening – Sound, Technics, Space

Thresholds of Listening addresses recent and historical changes in the ways listening has been conceived. Listening, having been emancipated from the passive, subjected position of reception, has come to be asserted as an active force in culture and in collective…

August 15, 2015
New Book: ‘Animal Music – Sound and Song in the Natural World’

‘Animal Music: Sound and Song in the Natural World‘ is a wonderful book I recently got. It’s edited by Tobias Fisher and Lara C Cory and features interviews with truly expert and passionate people on this field. Can animals talk?…

June 15, 2015
New Book: Keywords in Sound, a conceptual lexicon for sound studies

Duke University Press has a announced a new book dedicated to sound studies, edited by David Novak and Matt Sakakeeny. Will be available on April 17. In twenty essays on subjects such as noise, acoustics, music, and silence, Keywords in Sound presents…

March 26, 2015