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Sound Books
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The Soundscape: Our Environment and the Tuning of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 786 ratings — published 1977
Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as sound)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,844 ratings — published 1995
In the Field: The art of field recording (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as sound)
avg rating 4.29 — 111 ratings — published 2013
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as sound)
avg rating 3.89 — 68,063 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 — 643 ratings — published 2012
Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as sound)
avg rating 3.72 — 116 ratings — published 2010
Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Technologies of Lived Abstraction)
by (shelved 15 times as sound)
avg rating 3.79 — 286 ratings — published 2009
Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as sound)
avg rating 3.90 — 301 ratings — published 2005
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 74,755 ratings — published 2007
The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 190 ratings — published 2002
Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as sound)
avg rating 4.16 — 606 ratings — published 1993
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as sound)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,919 ratings — published 2007
The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 467 ratings — published 2014
Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,012 ratings — published 2004
Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 105 ratings — published 2006
Microsound (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 166 ratings — published 2002
The Order of Sounds: A Sonorous Archipelago (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 44 ratings — published
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 — 494 ratings — published 2022
Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 255 ratings — published 2001
Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as sound)
avg rating 3.89 — 157 ratings — published 2010
Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 211 ratings — published 1999
Quantum Listening (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 628 ratings — published
In the Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as sound)
avg rating 3.67 — 63 ratings — published 2009
Sonic Possible Worlds: Hearing the Continuum of Sound (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as sound)
avg rating 3.86 — 35 ratings — published 2014
Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 1,399 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)
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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)
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avg rating 4.00 — 28,754 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
Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sound)
avg rating 3.54 — 94 ratings — published 2010
Noise: The Political Economy of Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sound)
avg rating 4.06 — 975 ratings — published 1977
Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 4.00 — 8 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 — 416 ratings — published 2022
Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 4.04 — 107 ratings — published
Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 60 ratings — published
The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 3.75 — 236 ratings — published 2012
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 3.78 — 370 ratings — published 2009
Sound Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 27 ratings — published 2014
Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 250 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
Listening and Voice: Phenomenologies of Sound (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 58 ratings — published 1976
Silence: Lectures and Writings (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 3,610 ratings — published 1961
Noise/Music: A History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.60 — 346 ratings — published 2007
The Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 16 ratings — published
Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 36 ratings — published
Éliane Radigue: Intermediary Spaces (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.43 — 53 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 4.33 — 305 ratings — published 1998
“Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.”
― Autobiography of Red
― Autobiography of Red
