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Sound Books
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The Soundscape: Our Environment and the Tuning of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as sound)
avg rating 4.12 — 788 ratings — published 1977
Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as sound)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,849 ratings — published 1995
In the Field: The art of field recording (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as sound)
avg rating 4.29 — 112 ratings — published 2013
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as sound)
avg rating 3.89 — 68,204 ratings — published 2006
The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as sound)
avg rating 3.96 — 643 ratings — published 2012
Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as sound)
avg rating 3.73 — 117 ratings — published 2010
Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Technologies of Lived Abstraction)
by (shelved 15 times as sound)
avg rating 3.79 — 286 ratings — published 2009
Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as sound)
avg rating 3.90 — 302 ratings — published 2005
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as sound)
avg rating 3.95 — 74,987 ratings — published 2007
The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as sound)
avg rating 4.19 — 191 ratings — published 2002
Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as sound)
avg rating 4.16 — 606 ratings — published 1993
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as sound)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,937 ratings — published 2007
Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as sound)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,012 ratings — published 2004
Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as sound)
avg rating 3.95 — 107 ratings — published 2006
Microsound (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as sound)
avg rating 4.29 — 167 ratings — published 2002
The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as sound)
avg rating 3.78 — 468 ratings — published 2014
The Order of Sounds: A Sonorous Archipelago (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as sound)
avg rating 4.00 — 43 ratings — published
Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as sound)
avg rating 3.89 — 159 ratings — published 2010
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 4.24 — 496 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 — 255 ratings — published 2001
Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as sound)
avg rating 3.84 — 211 ratings — published 1999
Quantum Listening (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as sound)
avg rating 3.81 — 646 ratings — published
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
Sonic Possible Worlds: Hearing the Continuum of Sound (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as sound)
avg rating 3.83 — 36 ratings — published 2014
Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as sound)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,401 ratings — published 2009
Sonic Flux: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sound)
avg rating 4.00 — 31 ratings — published
Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang & Beyond (Mit Press)
by (shelved 7 times as sound)
avg rating 4.41 — 32 ratings — published 2011
On Listening (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sound)
avg rating 3.57 — 23 ratings — published 2013
Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sound)
avg rating 4.30 — 251 ratings — published 2009
Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sound)
avg rating 3.54 — 94 ratings — published 2010
Noise: The Political Economy of Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sound)
avg rating 4.06 — 978 ratings — published 1977
Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 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 6 times as sound)
avg rating 3.97 — 421 ratings — published 2022
Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 4.04 — 107 ratings — published
Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 4.15 — 60 ratings — published
More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 4.33 — 306 ratings — published 1998
The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 3.74 — 238 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 3.78 — 371 ratings — published 2009
Sound Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 4.15 — 27 ratings — published 2014
How Music Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 4.00 — 28,896 ratings — published 2014
Sonic Experience: A Guide to Everyday Sounds (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 3.91 — 47 ratings — published 2006
Haunted Weather: Music, Silence and Memory (Five Star Fiction S.)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 3.97 — 378 ratings — published 2004
Listening and Voice: Phenomenologies of Sound (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 3.59 — 58 ratings — published 1976
Silence: Lectures and Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,617 ratings — published 1961
Noise/Music: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 3.60 — 346 ratings — published 2007
The Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sound)
avg rating 3.81 — 16 ratings — published
Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as sound)
avg rating 3.81 — 36 ratings — published
Éliane Radigue: Intermediary Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sound)
avg rating 4.43 — 54 ratings — published
Earth Sound Earth Signal (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as sound)
avg rating 4.60 — 25 ratings — published 2013
“How I wish I was like the water,
Flowing so freely with every drop
Let my every emotion wonder,
No need to start, nor even stop
How I wish I was like the fire,
Burning with every flame up
Leaving a trace of hot desire
As a Phoenix raises its' wings up
How I wish I was like the earth,
Raising each flower from the ground
Seeing the beauty of death and birth
And then returning to the ground
How I wish I was like the wind,
Hearing each whisper, sound and thought
A lonesome and wandering little wind,
Shattering all that has been sought
Oh, how I wish I was where you are,
Not separated by empty space, so far
It seems like we're galaxies apart,
But we find hope within our heart
And how I wish I was all of the above,
So I can come below and yet forget,
The beauty of angels which come down like a dove
And demons who love with no regret.”
―
Flowing so freely with every drop
Let my every emotion wonder,
No need to start, nor even stop
How I wish I was like the fire,
Burning with every flame up
Leaving a trace of hot desire
As a Phoenix raises its' wings up
How I wish I was like the earth,
Raising each flower from the ground
Seeing the beauty of death and birth
And then returning to the ground
How I wish I was like the wind,
Hearing each whisper, sound and thought
A lonesome and wandering little wind,
Shattering all that has been sought
Oh, how I wish I was where you are,
Not separated by empty space, so far
It seems like we're galaxies apart,
But we find hope within our heart
And how I wish I was all of the above,
So I can come below and yet forget,
The beauty of angels which come down like a dove
And demons who love with no regret.”
―
“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 myself but as an echo of who I was. Can you hear me yet? Can you read me?”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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 myself but as an echo of who I was. Can you hear me yet? Can you read me?”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
