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Sound Books
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The Soundscape: Our Environment and the Tuning of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as sound)
avg rating 4.11 — 783 ratings — published 1977
In the Field: The art of field recording (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as sound)
avg rating 4.29 — 111 ratings — published 2013
Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as sound)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,820 ratings — published 1995
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as sound)
avg rating 3.89 — 67,681 ratings — published 2006
The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as sound)
avg rating 3.96 — 640 ratings — published 2012
Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as sound)
avg rating 3.75 — 114 ratings — published 2010
Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as sound)
avg rating 3.89 — 302 ratings — published 2005
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as sound)
avg rating 3.95 — 74,138 ratings — published 2007
Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Technologies of Lived Abstraction)
by (shelved 14 times as sound)
avg rating 3.80 — 285 ratings — published 2009
Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as sound)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,009 ratings — published 2004
The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as sound)
avg rating 4.19 — 191 ratings — published 2002
Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as sound)
avg rating 4.16 — 602 ratings — published 1993
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as sound)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,868 ratings — published 2007
The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as sound)
avg rating 3.78 — 467 ratings — published 2014
Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as sound)
avg rating 4.09 — 256 ratings — published 2001
Microsound (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as sound)
avg rating 4.27 — 164 ratings — published 2002
The Order of Sounds: A Sonorous Archipelago (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as sound)
avg rating 4.02 — 43 ratings — published
Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as sound)
avg rating 3.94 — 106 ratings — published 2006
The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as sound)
avg rating 4.24 — 484 ratings — published 2022
Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as sound)
avg rating 3.90 — 156 ratings — published 2010
Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as sound)
avg rating 3.84 — 211 ratings — published 1999
Quantum Listening (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as sound)
avg rating 3.81 — 585 ratings — published
In the Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as sound)
avg rating 3.69 — 62 ratings — published 2009
Sonic Possible Worlds: Hearing the Continuum of Sound (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as sound)
avg rating 3.88 — 34 ratings — published 2014
Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as sound)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,388 ratings — published 2009
Sonic Flux: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sound)
avg rating 4.00 — 31 ratings — published
Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang & Beyond (Mit Press)
by (shelved 7 times as sound)
avg rating 4.41 — 32 ratings — published 2011
On Listening (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sound)
avg rating 3.57 — 23 ratings — published 2013
How Music Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as sound)
avg rating 4.01 — 28,401 ratings — published 2014
Sonic Experience: A Guide to Everyday Sounds (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sound)
avg rating 3.91 — 47 ratings — published 2006
Noise: The Political Economy of Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sound)
avg rating 4.06 — 967 ratings — published 1977
Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 3.86 — 7 ratings — published
Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 3.96 — 410 ratings — published 2022
Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 4.04 — 108 ratings — published
Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 4.15 — 59 ratings — published
The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 3.76 — 235 ratings — published 2012
The Mixing Engineer's Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 4.31 — 688 ratings — published 1999
One Square Inch of Silence: One Man's Search for Natural Silence in a Noisy World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 3.77 — 368 ratings — published 2009
Sound Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 4.12 — 26 ratings — published 2014
Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 4.30 — 249 ratings — published 2009
Haunted Weather: Music, Silence and Memory (Five Star Fiction S.)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 3.96 — 377 ratings — published 2004
Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 3.55 — 95 ratings — published 2010
Listening and Voice: Phenomenologies of Sound (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 3.58 — 57 ratings — published 1976
Silence: Lectures and Writings (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 3,600 ratings — published 1961
Noise/Music: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 3.60 — 345 ratings — published 2007
Sonic Meditations (looseleaf)
by (shelved 5 times as sound)
avg rating 4.39 — 41 ratings — published 1974
The Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sound)
avg rating 3.81 — 16 ratings — published
Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as sound)
avg rating 3.78 — 36 ratings — published
Earth Sound Earth Signal (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as sound)
avg rating 4.62 — 24 ratings — published 2013
More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sound)
avg rating 4.32 — 301 ratings — published 1998
“Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
“THAT crazed girl improvising her music.
Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,
Her soul in division from itself
Climbing, falling She knew not where,
Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship,
Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare
A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing
Heroically lost, heroically found.
No matter what disaster occurred
She stood in desperate music wound,
Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph
Where the bales and the baskets lay
No common intelligible sound
But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea”
― The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,
Her soul in division from itself
Climbing, falling She knew not where,
Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship,
Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare
A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing
Heroically lost, heroically found.
No matter what disaster occurred
She stood in desperate music wound,
Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph
Where the bales and the baskets lay
No common intelligible sound
But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea”
― The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
