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The Soundscape: Our Environment and the Tuning of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 807 ratings — published 1977
In the Field: The art of field recording (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as sound)
avg rating 4.27 — 115 ratings — published 2013
Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as sound)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,919 ratings — published 1995
The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as sound)
avg rating 3.96 — 660 ratings — published 2012
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as sound)
avg rating 3.89 — 69,403 ratings — published 2006
Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as sound)
avg rating 3.75 — 119 ratings — published 2010
Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Technologies of Lived Abstraction)
by (shelved 16 times as sound)
avg rating 3.78 — 296 ratings — published 2009
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as sound)
avg rating 3.94 — 76,890 ratings — published 2007
Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as sound)
avg rating 3.91 — 330 ratings — published 2005
The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 197 ratings — published 2002
Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as sound)
avg rating 3.96 — 110 ratings — published 2006
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 16,250 ratings — published 2007
Microsound (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 167 ratings — published 2002
The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 479 ratings — published 2014
Sonic Possible Worlds: Hearing the Continuum of Sound (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 44 ratings — published 2014
Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 162 ratings — published 2010
Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as sound)
avg rating 4.16 — 617 ratings — published 1993
The Order of Sounds: A Sonorous Archipelago (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 44 ratings — published
Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,016 ratings — published 2004
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 4.23 — 533 ratings — published 2022
Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as sound)
avg rating 4.09 — 258 ratings — published 2001
Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as sound)
avg rating 3.84 — 212 ratings — published 1999
Quantum Listening (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as sound)
avg rating 3.77 — 761 ratings — published
Sonic Flux: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as sound)
avg rating 4.00 — 33 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
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
Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 1,420 ratings — published 2009
Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.55 — 95 ratings — published 2010
Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 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 7 times as sound)
avg rating 3.94 — 471 ratings — published 2022
Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sound)
avg rating 4.02 — 111 ratings — published
Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sound)
avg rating 4.16 — 61 ratings — published
On Listening (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sound)
avg rating 3.58 — 24 ratings — published 2013
How Music Works (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 30,109 ratings — published 2014
Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sound)
avg rating 4.31 — 256 ratings — published 2009
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 4.05 — 1,007 ratings — published 1977
Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 1,105 ratings — published
Political Possibility of Sound, The: Fragments of Listening (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 3.82 — 17 ratings — published
More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 4.32 — 316 ratings — published 1998
The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 3.75 — 239 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 3.77 — 376 ratings — published 2009
Sound Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 4.11 — 28 ratings — published 2014
Haunted Weather: Music, Silence and Memory (Five Star Fiction S.)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 3.97 — 381 ratings — published 2004
Listening and Voice: Phenomenologies of Sound (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 61 ratings — published 1976
Silence: Lectures and Writings (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 3,651 ratings — published 1961
Noise/Music: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 3.59 — 348 ratings — published 2007
The Book of Music and Nature: An Anthology of Sounds, Words, Thoughts (Music / Culture)
by (shelved 5 times as sound)
avg rating 4.28 — 39 ratings — published 2009
Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 39 ratings — published
“In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps.”
― The Creator
― The Creator
“Let us not remain anchored in the quicksand of a waning past, and lose the war on obliviousness, but let us listen to the bracing sounds of new horizons, grasp the enchantment of the fleeting instants and seize the cleverness of the moment. (Could time be patient?)”
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