noise
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New Books: Between Air and Electricity, Ludic Dreaming, Beyond Unwanted Sound, Musical Encounters With Deleuze and Guattari
Bloomsbury has announced four upcoming books on sound related topics. Below are links to ebook versions, although all of them are also available in paperback and hardcover. Click on each title for more info. Between Air and Electricity — Microphones and…
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BBC Radio 4: Acoustic Ecology
BBC Radio 4 has published a recent program produced by Helen Lennard and focused on acoustic ecology. “Peter Gibbs asks whether sound could become a vital tool in conservation, helping us understand far more about how wildlife interacts and how…
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Understanding Noise in Twentieth-Century Physics and Engineering
Perspectives on Science journal has published a new special issue dedicated to explore noise. Perspectives on Science publishes science studies that integrate historical, philosophical, and sociological perspectives. Its interdisciplinary approach is intended to foster a more comprehensive understanding of the sciences…
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Immersion Into Noise Joseph Nechvatal The noise factor is the ratio of signal to noise of an input signal to that of the output signal. Noise can block or interfere with the meaning of a message in both human and…
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Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts Douglas Kahn This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it–to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on…
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Noise Matters: Towards an Ontology of Noise Greg Hainge Everyone knows what noise is. Or do they? Can we in fact say that one man’s noise is another teenager’s music? Is noise in fact only an auditory phenomenon or does…