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The Soundscape: Our Environment and the Tuning of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 775 ratings — published 1977
In the Field: The art of field recording (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 110 ratings — published 2013
Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 1,811 ratings — published 1995
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 67,331 ratings — published 2006
The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 634 ratings — published 2012
Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 111 ratings — published 2010
Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 300 ratings — published 2005
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 73,580 ratings — published 2007
Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Technologies of Lived Abstraction)
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avg rating 3.80 — 280 ratings — published 2009
Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,006 ratings — published 2004
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)
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avg rating 4.17 — 599 ratings — published 1993
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 15,798 ratings — published 2007
Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 257 ratings — published 2001
Microsound (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 163 ratings — published 2002
The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 463 ratings — published 2014
The Order of Sounds: A Sonorous Archipelago (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 43 ratings — published
Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (Paperback)
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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)
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avg rating 4.24 — 473 ratings — published 2022
Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 210 ratings — published 1999
Quantum Listening (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 547 ratings — published
In the Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 62 ratings — published 2009
Sonic Possible Worlds: Hearing the Continuum of Sound (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 34 ratings — published 2014
Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 158 ratings — published 2010
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)
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avg rating 3.57 — 23 ratings — published 2013
How Music Works (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 28,050 ratings — published 2014
Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 1,388 ratings — published 2009
Noise: The Political Economy of Music (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 965 ratings — published 1977
Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 7 ratings — published
Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.97 — 396 ratings — published 2022
Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 107 ratings — published
Sonic Flux: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 32 ratings — published
Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 58 ratings — published
The Mixing Engineer's Handbook (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 682 ratings — published 1999
One Square Inch of Silence: One Man's Search for Natural Silence in a Noisy World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 369 ratings — published 2009
Sound Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 26 ratings — published 2014
Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 248 ratings — published 2009
Haunted Weather: Music, Silence and Memory (Five Star Fiction S.)
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avg rating 3.96 — 378 ratings — published 2004
Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.54 — 96 ratings — published 2010
Silence: Lectures and Writings (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 3,579 ratings — published 1961
Noise/Music: A History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 344 ratings — published 2007
Sonic Meditations (looseleaf)
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avg rating 4.39 — 41 ratings — published 1974
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 3.72 — 36 ratings — published
Earth Sound Earth Signal (ebook)
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avg rating 4.62 — 24 ratings — published 2013
More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 297 ratings — published 1998
The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 233 ratings — published 2012
The Foley Grail: The Art of Performing Sound for Film, Games, and Animation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 85 ratings — published 1997
“One person's data is another person's noise.”
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“I woke up early and took the first train to take me away from the city. The noise and all its people. I was alone on the train and had no idea where I was going, and that’s why I went there. Two hours later we arrived in a small town, one of those towns with one single coffee shop and where everyone knows each other’s name. I walked for a while until I found the water, the most peaceful place I know. There I sat and stayed the whole day, with nothing and everything on my mind, cleaning my head. Silence, I learned, is some times the most beautiful sound.”
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