technology
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The amplification of souls Gilles Aubry Amplified Souls is a live sound performance by Gilles Aubry based on his research on the Amplified Religious Soundscape of Kinshasa, DRC, which took its place in 2011 for the Global Prayers project. Aubry…
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The Sonic Persona: An Anthropology of Sound Holger Schulze In The Sonic Persona, Holger Schulze undertakes a critical study of some of the most influential studies in sound since the 19th century in the natural sciences, the engineering sciences, and…
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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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Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control (Sign, Storage, Transmission) Mack Hagood For almost sixty years, media technologies have promised users the ability to create sonic safe spaces for themselves—from bedside white noise machines to Beats by Dre’s “Hear What You Want”…
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Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture
Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture, book by Joe Muggs & Brian David Stevens, published at Strange Attractor. An oral history of the UK’s soundsystem culture, featuring interviews with Dubmaster Dennis Bovell, Skream, Youth, Norman Jay…
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Isles of Noise: Sonic Media in the Caribbean Alejandra M. Bronfman In this media history of the Caribbean, Alejandra Bronfman traces how technology, culture, and politics developed in a region that was “wired” earlier and more widely than many other…