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  • New English Translation of Pierre Schaeffer’s Influential Treatise on Musical Objects

    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…

  • Three New Books: The Listening Reader, The Order of Sounds, Sonic Rupture

    Three New Books: The Listening Reader, The Order of Sounds, Sonic Rupture

    The amount of books around sound and listening keeps growing. Here are three new titles recently added to our sonic bookshelf: The Listening Reader Edited by Sam Belinfante and Joseph Kohlmaier Available at Cours de Poétique for £15.00. “Studies in…

  • 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…

  • New Book: The Sonic Boom

    New Book: The Sonic Boom

    Joel Beckerman and Tyler Gray have published a new book called The Sonic Boom: How Sound Transforms the Way We Think, Feel, and Buy. A surprising look at the hidden power of sound, revealing how people and brands can use it to…

  • Sonospace

    Sonospace

    The Sonospace website splits up into a magazine and a sound archive. They both interconnect with some of the wider issues that we see over the course of our contributors’ research projects and represent our mission to bring interesting and…