The Essential Guide to Game Audio: The Theory and Practice of Sound for Games is a first of its kind …
Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking provides a long-needed, practical, and engaging introduction to the craft of making …
An ear-opening reassessment of sonic art from World War II to the present Marcel Duchamp famously championed a "non-retinal" visual …
This is a book on the therapeutic quality of music. Musicians, philosophers, music therapists, and others discuss their experiences. This …
Hearing Cultures is a timely examination of the elusive, often evocative, and sometimes cacophonous auditory sense. It answers such intriguing …
Vision is typically treated as the defining sense of the modern era and a powerful vehicle for colonial and postcolonial …
What can you do to improve your own hearing and listening?? How can you get more joy out of music, …
Listening to Noise and Silence engages with the emerging practice of sound art and the concurrent development of a discourse …
How Music Works is David Byrne's remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he's spent a lifetime thinking about. He …
Proceeding from basic theory to design studies of concert and multiple purpose halls, the author introduces a remarkable seat selection …
As performance art forms have developed over the centuries, so too have the specialized buildings for housing them. Functionally and …
The Audible Past explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction. It describes a distinctive sound culture that gave birth to …
Sonic Persuasion: Reading Sound in the Recorded Age critically analyzes a range of sounds on vocal and musical recordings, on …