Diana Deutsch - Musical Illusions and Phantom Words
How Music and Speech Unlock Mysteries of the Brain. The remarkable capabilities, quirkishness, surprising failures, in our perception of music and speech.
Publisher: Oxford University Press / ISBN: 9780190206833
Author: Diana Deutsch
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Fantasy, Psychology, Sonology, Sound Studies, Speech.
Yannis Patoukas - Jammed
Electroacoustic composer/musicologist who likes to connect experimental rock of the late 60s/early 70s to electroacoustic traditions, via studio practices and p..(read more)
Label: Own / YP001
Artist: Yannis Patoukas
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Electro-Acoustic, Improvisation, Sonology.
Tilman Baumgärtel - Now and Forever: Towards a theory and history of the loop
Short sequences of sounds or images repeated using recording media have proved to be a versatile and momentous aesthetic method in the 20th century
Publisher: Zero Books / ISBN: 9781789041514
Author: Tilman Baumgärtel
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Experimental Films, Media Theory, Sonology, Tape Loops.
Melle Jan Kromhout - The Logic of Filtering
Traces the impact of technical media on music; how do media technologies shape sound? How does this affect music? And how did it change what we listen for in mu..(read more)
Publisher: Oxford University Press / ISBN: 9780190070144
Author: Melle Jan Kromhout
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Media Archaeology, Music Theory, Noise, Sonology, Sound Studies.
Various Authors - Spectres II – Resonances
Resonance has a multitude of meanings, which is reflected in the personal takes on it by the contributors to this volume.
Publisher: Shelter Press / ISBN: 9782365820318
Author: Various Authors
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Acoustic, Sonology, Sound Art, Sound Studies.
Konrad Boehmer - Aspekt / Cry of this Earth / Apocalipsis cum Figuris
From BVHaast’s stellar series Acousmatrix (History of Electronic Music) this was volume 5. German/Dutch composer and writer (1941-2014). Member of Darmsta..(read more)
Label: BVHaast / BVH 9011
Artist: Konrad Boehmer
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Contemporary, Sonology.
Philip Samartzis - Antarctica – An Absent Presence
This book is an invitation to share in a remarkable journey to a place that is for all intents and purposes simply incomprehensible: Antarctica. A paradox of th..(read more)
Publisher: Thames and Hudson / ISBN: 9780500500668
Author: Philip Samartzis
Medium: Book + 2xCD
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Ecology, Field Recordings, Geology, Sonology, Sound Art.
Pierre Schaeffer - Treatise on Musical Objects
Regarded as Pierre Schaeffer’s most important work on music and its relationship with technology, finally available in English! Subtitled “An Essay Acro..(read more)
Publisher: University of California Press / ISBN: 9780520294301
Author: Pierre Schaeffer
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Music Theory, Musique Concrète, Pioneers, Sonology, Sound Studies.
Lucia Farinati & Claudia Firth - The Force Of Listening
The Force of Listening explores the role of listening in the contemporary intersection of art and activism and asks what potential for transformation it might f..(read more)
Publisher: Errant Bodies Press / ISBN: 9780997874402
Author: Lucia Farinati & Claudia Firth
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Activism, Politics, Sociology, Sonology, Sound Studies.
