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  • Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise, New Book by Michel Chion

    Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise, New Book by Michel Chion

    Duke University Press has announced the arrival of Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise, the first English translation of Michel Chion‘s Le Son book, originally published in French in 1998 and revised in 2010, where the author explores a wide variety of…

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    Lost Sound: The Forgotten Art of Radio Storytelling Jeff Porter From Archibald MacLeish to David Sedaris, radio storytelling has long borrowed from the world of literature, yet the narrative radio work of well-known writers and others is a story that…

  • 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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    Instruments for New Music: Sound, Technology, and Modernism Thomas Patteson At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’ new Open Access publishing program for monographs. Player pianos, radio-electric circuits,…

  • Four New Books: Sonic Virtuality, Listening To War, Sensing Sound, Instruments of New Music

    It’s very interesting to see the production of books about sound growing. In one side, it’s always challenging, difficult and almost impossible to theorize sound, at least in the way other aspects of life are theorized. But on the other hand,…

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    Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond (Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology) Stefan Helmreich What is life? What is water? What is sound? In Sounding the Limits of Life, anthropologist Stefan Helmreich investigates…