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Sound Art Revisited Alan Licht The first edition of Sound Art Revisited *(published as *Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories) served as a groundbreaking work toward defining this emerging field, and this fully updated volume significantly expands the story to…
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Making It Heard: A History of Brazilian Sound Art Rui Chaves, Fernando Iazzaetta From the mid-20th century to present, the Brazilian art, literature, and music scene have been witness to a wealth of creative approaches involving sound. This is the…
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Sonic Flux: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics Christoph Cox From Edison’s invention of the phonograph through contemporary field recording and sound installation, artists have become attracted to those domains against which music has always defined itself: noise, silence, and environmental sound.…
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Sonic Fiction (The Study of Sound) Holger Schulze Sonic fiction is everywhere: in conversations about vernacular culture, in music videos, sound art compositions and on record sleeves, in everyday encounters with sonic experiences and in every single piece of writing…
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Lipsynching (The Study of Sound) Merrie Snell What does it mean when a singing voice is detached from an originating body through recording? And how does this affect consumers of recorded song? This book examines the practice of lipsynching to…
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Sirens (The Study of Sound) Michael Bull Sirens are sounds that confront us in daily life, from the sounds of police cars and fire engines to, less often, tornado warnings. Ideologies of sirens embody the protective, the seductive and the…