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Author : Trevor J. Cox
Release : 2014
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 586/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Sound Book by : Trevor J. Cox
Download or read book The Sound Book written by Trevor J. Cox. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lucid and passionate case for a more mindful way of listening to and engaging with musical, natural, and manmade sounds. --New York Times
Author : Trevor Cox
Release : 2014-02-10
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 799/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World by : Trevor Cox
Download or read book The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World written by Trevor Cox. This book was released on 2014-02-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A professor of acoustic engineering provides a tour of the world's most amazing sound phenomena, including creaking glaciers, whispering galleries, stalactite organs, musical roads, humming dunes, seals that sound like alien angels, and a Mayan pyramid that chirps like a bird.
Author : Trevor J. Cox
Release : 2015
Genre : Noise
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 404/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sonic Wonderland by : Trevor J. Cox
Download or read book Sonic Wonderland written by Trevor J. Cox. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging across an array of realms including literature, classical music, history, archaeology, psychology, neuroscience, geology, physics, biology and ecology, this book tours the world's most amazing acoustic phenomena and the sometimes even stranger people behind them - and pleas for a deeper appreciation and respect for our shared sonic landscapes.
Author : Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard
Release : 2019-07-26
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 253/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination by : Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination written by Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard. This book was released on 2019-07-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether social, cultural, or individual, the act of imagination always derives from a pre-existing context. For example, we can conjure an alien's scream from previously heard wildlife recordings or mentally rehearse a piece of music while waiting for a train. This process is no less true for the role of imagination in sonic events and artifacts. Many existing works on sonic imagination tend to discuss musical imagination through terms like compositional creativity or performance technique. In this two-volume Handbook, contributors shift the focus of imagination away from the visual by addressing the topic of sonic imagination and expanding the field beyond musical compositional creativity and performance technique into other aural arenas where the imagination holds similar power. Topics covered include auditory imagery and the neurology of sonic imagination; aural hallucination and illusion; use of metaphor in the recording studio; the projection of acoustic imagination in architectural design; and the design of sound artifacts for cinema and computer games.
Author : Nicole Brittingham Furlonge
Release : 2018-05-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 616/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Race Sounds by : Nicole Brittingham Furlonge
Download or read book Race Sounds written by Nicole Brittingham Furlonge. This book was released on 2018-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forging new ideas about the relationship between race and sound, Furlonge explores how black artists--including well-known figures such as writers Ralph Ellison and Zora Neale Hurston, and singers Bettye LaVette and Aretha Franklin, among others--imagine listening. Drawing from a multimedia archive, Furlonge examines how many of the texts call on readers to "listen in print." In the process, she gives us a new way to read and interpret these canonical, aurally inflected texts, and demonstrates how listening allows us to engage with the sonic lives of difference as readers, thinkers, and citizens.
