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)
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice
The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art
Microsound
The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World
Nonconscious Movements by Herman H. SpitzManual of the Enumeration by Casper James CoffmanHarmonic Vibrations by PesaventoGenius Frequency by John J. FaloneThe Kiss Sacred and Profane by Nicolas J. Perella
Throw Your Jelly Out The Window
98 books — 2 voters
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelChocolat by joanne-harrisImajica by Clive BarkerThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienPerfume by Patrick Süskind
A feast for the senses
53 books — 10 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayBirdsong by Sebastian FaulksChitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian FlemingThe Tin Drum by Günter Grass
Sounds
669 books — 52 voters

William Cowper
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies. ...more
William Cowper

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

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