Sound


The Soundscape: Our Environment and the Tuning of the World
In the Field: The art of field recording
Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds
The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places
This Is Your Brain on Music
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
Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Microsound
The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World
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
Game Sound by Karen  CollinsThe Music of Nobuo Uematsu in the "Final Fantasy" Series by Richard AnatoneKoji Kondo's Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack by Andrew SchartmannLudomusicology by Michiel KampThe Beep Book by Karen  Collins
Video Game Music and Sound
24 books — 4 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
1,965 books — 122 voters

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin Jr.The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric CarleWe're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael RosenArthur's Eyes by Marc Brown
Picture Books about the Five Senses
103 books — 10 voters
Encyclopedia Of Rhythms by Joseph SchillingerNew Images of Musical Sound by Robert CoganUnusual Sounds by David  HollanderGenesis of a Music by Harry PartchMusic & Silence by Rose Tremain
Captain Earhole
185 books — 5 voters

“ I could feel everything. From the tragic cellos, to the tender sounds of the piano giving awe to my touch. My body slowly swayed to the sweet feel of the air sweeping over me. I felt myself being taken away as the hearts of my fans soared with me. ”
― Charles Lee, The Way To Dawn: End of Days

“ … her brain remembered every set of sounds Meera had styled in her speech … ”
― Misba, The High Auction

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