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The Soundscape: Our Environment and the Tuning of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 802 ratings — published 1977
Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as sound)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,903 ratings — published 1995
In the Field: The art of field recording (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as sound)
avg rating 4.27 — 113 ratings — published 2013
The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as sound)
avg rating 3.97 — 660 ratings — published 2012
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as sound)
avg rating 3.89 — 69,075 ratings — published 2006
Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 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 15 times as sound)
avg rating 3.78 — 294 ratings — published 2009
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as sound)
avg rating 3.94 — 76,304 ratings — published 2007
Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as sound)
avg rating 3.91 — 324 ratings — published 2005
The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 196 ratings — published 2002
Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as sound)
avg rating 4.16 — 614 ratings — published 1993
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 16,089 ratings — published 2007
Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 108 ratings — published 2006
Microsound (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as sound)
avg rating 4.30 — 166 ratings — published 2002
The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 476 ratings — published 2014
The Order of Sounds: A Sonorous Archipelago (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 44 ratings — published
Sonic Possible Worlds: Hearing the Continuum of Sound (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 44 ratings — published 2014
Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,014 ratings — published 2004
Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 162 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 4.23 — 521 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)
by (shelved 8 times as sound)
avg rating 3.79 — 731 ratings — published
Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang & Beyond (Mit Press)
by (shelved 8 times as sound)
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 — 1,413 ratings — published 2009
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 — 460 ratings — published 2022
Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sound)
avg rating 4.03 — 109 ratings — published
Sonic Flux: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 33 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 — 29,701 ratings — published 2014
Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sound)
avg rating 4.30 — 253 ratings — published 2009
Sonic Experience: A Guide to Everyday Sounds (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sound)
avg rating 3.91 — 47 ratings — published 2006
Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.55 — 95 ratings — published 2010
Noise: The Political Economy of Music (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,002 ratings — published 1977
Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 8 ratings — published
Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 60 ratings — published
More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
avg rating 4.32 — 311 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 — 374 ratings — published 2009
Sound Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sound)
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 — 3,646 ratings — published 1961
Noise/Music: A History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 348 ratings — published 2007
Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 1,074 ratings — published
Political Possibility of Sound, The: Fragments of Listening (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 16 ratings — published
Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 39 ratings — published
Éliane Radigue: Intermediary Spaces (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.45 — 55 ratings — published
“My favorite sound in the whole world is your giggle, Anastasia.”
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“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.”
― The Way To Dawn: End of Days
― The Way To Dawn: End of Days
