Sound


The Soundscape: Our Environment and the Tuning of the World
Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds
In the Field: The art of field recording
This Is Your Brain on Music
The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places
Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art
Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Technologies of Lived Abstraction)
Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen
The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music
Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art
Microsound
Breaking the Bias of English by Vivian R. ProbstThe Audible Past by Jonathan SterneThe Soundscape by R. Murray SchaferNoise, Water, Meat by Douglas KahnNoise by Jacques Attali
Noise, Music & Sound
135 books — 21 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelWatership Down by Richard  AdamsWater for Elephants by Sara GruenOn the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Title Challenge - Water
1,949 books — 121 voters

Final Fantasy VI by Sebastian DekenPlaying Along by Kiri MillerGame Sound by Karen  CollinsPaRappa the Rapper by Mike SholarsMusic Supervision, 2nd Edition by Ramsay Adams
Video Game Music and Sound
24 books — 3 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyIt by Stephen  KingAtlas Shrugged by Ayn RandThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Stand by Stephen  King
Biggest Audio Books (Hour count)
72 books — 11 voters

Ocean Vuong
There is so much I want to tell you, Ma. I was once foolish enough to believe knowledge would clarify, but some things are so gauzed behind layers of syntax and semantics, behind days and hours, names forgotten, salvaged and shed, that simply knowing the wound exists does nothing to reveal it. I don't know what I'm saying. I guess what I mean is that sometimes I don't know what or who we are. Days I feel like a human being, while other days I feel more like a sound. I touch the world not as myse ...more
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

W.B. Yeats
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, ...more
William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

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