Sound


The Soundscape: Our Environment and the Tuning of the World
In the Field: The art of field recording
Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds
This Is Your Brain on Music
The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places
Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art
Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Technologies of Lived Abstraction)
Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music
The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World
Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema
Guy de Maupassant
I told myself 'Everything is a being! The shout that passes into the air is an entity like an animal, since it is born, produces a movement, and is again transformed, in order to die. So the fearful mind that believes in incorporeal beings is not wrong. What are they? ...more
Guy de Maupassant, Complete Works

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
If I could record them and transmit them to the present age, they would constitute nothing more, nowadays, than dead sounds. They would be, in a word, sounds other than what they actually were, and from what their phonographic labels pretended they were – since it's in ourselves that the silence exists. It was while the sounds were still mysterious that it would have been really interesting to render the mystery palpable and transferable. ...more
Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, L'Ève Future

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