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The Soundscape: Our Environment and the Tuning of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 807 ratings — published 1977
In the Field: The art of field recording (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as sound)
avg rating 4.26 — 115 ratings — published 2013
Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as sound)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,918 ratings — published 1995
The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as sound)
avg rating 3.96 — 660 ratings — published 2012
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as sound)
avg rating 3.89 — 69,333 ratings — published 2006
Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as sound)
avg rating 3.75 — 119 ratings — published 2010
Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Technologies of Lived Abstraction)
by (shelved 16 times as sound)
avg rating 3.78 — 295 ratings — published 2009
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as sound)
avg rating 3.94 — 76,763 ratings — published 2007
Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 328 ratings — published 2005
The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 197 ratings — published 2002
Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 614 ratings — published 1993
Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 109 ratings — published 2006
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 16,205 ratings — published 2007
Microsound (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 167 ratings — published 2002
The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 477 ratings — published 2014
Sonic Possible Worlds: Hearing the Continuum of Sound (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 44 ratings — published 2014
Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 162 ratings — published 2010
The Order of Sounds: A Sonorous Archipelago (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 44 ratings — published
Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,016 ratings — published 2004
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 4.22 — 530 ratings — published 2022
Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 258 ratings — published 2001
Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 212 ratings — published 1999
Quantum Listening (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 754 ratings — published
Sonic Flux: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 33 ratings — published
Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang & Beyond (Mit Press)
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avg rating 4.41 — 32 ratings — published 2011
In the Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 63 ratings — published 2009
Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 1,418 ratings — published 2009
Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.55 — 95 ratings — published 2010
Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice (Hardcover)
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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 7 times as sound)
avg rating 3.94 — 469 ratings — published 2022
Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 111 ratings — published
Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 61 ratings — published
On Listening (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sound)
avg rating 3.58 — 24 ratings — published 2013
How Music Works (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 30,039 ratings — published 2014
Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 256 ratings — published 2009
Sonic Experience: A Guide to Everyday Sounds (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 47 ratings — published 2006
Noise: The Political Economy of Music (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,007 ratings — published 1977
Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 1,097 ratings — published
Political Possibility of Sound, The: Fragments of Listening (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 17 ratings — published
More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 4.32 — 314 ratings — published 1998
The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 239 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 3.77 — 376 ratings — published 2009
Sound Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 28 ratings — published 2014
Haunted Weather: Music, Silence and Memory (Five Star Fiction S.)
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avg rating 3.97 — 381 ratings — published 2004
Listening and Voice: Phenomenologies of Sound (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.60 — 60 ratings — published 1976
Silence: Lectures and Writings (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 3,650 ratings — published 1961
Noise/Music: A History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 348 ratings — published 2007
The Book of Music and Nature: An Anthology of Sounds, Words, Thoughts (Music / Culture)
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avg rating 4.28 — 39 ratings — published 2009
Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 39 ratings — published
“One person's data is another person's noise.”
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“Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely melody and harmony are made, so that God is honored and praised but mankind is moved to devotion, virtue, joy, and sorrow.”
― Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician
― Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician
