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  • A Year of Deep Listening

    A Year of Deep Listening

    A Year of Deep Listening is a wonderful idea from the Center of Deep Listening aimed to present 365 Listening scores, one each day, beginning on Pauline Oliveros’ 90th birthday: May 30, 2022. The celebration remembers the invaluable legacy of…

  • Sonic Terrain’s Bookshelf: +200 Books on Sound

    As researchers, artists, institutions and individuals in general get more interested on sound studies and practices in its plurality of fields and perspectives, it becomes important to find ways of not only inter-connecting our ideas and processes but also to organizing…

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    The Csound Book Richard Boulanger Created in 1985 by Barry Vercoe, Csound is one of the most widely used software sound synthesis systems. Because it is so powerful, mastering Csound can take a good deal of time and effort. But…

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    Designing Sound Andy Farnell Designing Sound teaches students and professional sound designers to understand and create sound effects starting from nothing. Its thesis is that any sound can be generated from first principles, guided by analysis and synthesis. The text…

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    Understanding the Art of Sound Organization Leigh Landy The art of sound organization, also known as electroacoustic music, uses sounds not available to traditional music making, including prerecorded, synthesized, and processed sounds. The body of work of such sound-based music…

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    Film Sound: Theory and Practice Elisabeth Weis & John Belton The only comprehensive book on film sound, this anthology makes available for the first time and in a single volume major essays by the most respected film historians, aestheticians, and…