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Sound and Experimental Music
1.
Microsound
by:
Curtis Roads
4.27 avg rating β 165 ratings
2.
Sound
by:
Caleb Kelly
3.93 avg rating β 57 ratings
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Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music
by:
Christoph Cox
4.22 avg rating β 1,007 ratings
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Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen
by:
Michel Chion
4.17 avg rating β 595 ratings
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Sonic Flux: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics
by:
Christoph Cox
3.97 avg rating β 31 ratings
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Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art
by:
SalomΓ© Voegelin
3.74 avg rating β 110 ratings
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Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic
by:
Curtis Roads
4.43 avg rating β 105 ratings
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Listen: Jeph Jerman in Conversation with Aram Yardumian
by:
Jeph Jerman
4.71 avg rating β 7 ratings
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Keith Rowe: The Room Extended
by:
Brian Olewnick
3.85 avg rating β 34 ratings
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Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation
by:
Ben Watson
3.51 avg rating β 84 ratings
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Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction
by:
Lecturer in Electronic Arts Caleb Kelly
3.75 avg rating β 32 ratings
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Undercurrents: The Hidden Wiring of Modern Music
by:
The Wire
4.11 avg rating β 129 ratings
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Sounds and Perception: New Philosophical Essays
by:
Matthew Nudds
4.14 avg rating β 7 ratings
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Sounds: A Philosophical Theory by Casey O'Callaghan (1-Mar-2010) Paperback
by:
Casey O'Callaghan
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970
by:
David Toop
3.94 avg rating β 79 ratings
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Exotica: Fabricated Soundscapes in a Real World
by:
David Toop
4.09 avg rating β 101 ratings
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Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener
by:
David Toop
3.89 avg rating β 156 ratings
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Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life
by:
Brandon LaBelle
3.53 avg rating β 96 ratings
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Tomorrow Is the Question: New Directions in Experimental Music Studies
by:
Benjamin Piekut
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 4 ratings
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
by:
Alex Ross
4.10 avg rating β 15,702 ratings
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Beyond Unwanted Sound: Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism
by:
Marie Thompson
4.22 avg rating β 32 ratings
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Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice
by:
Pauline Oliveros
3.87 avg rating β 287 ratings
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Noise Matters
by:
Greg Hainge
3.65 avg rating β 20 ratings
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Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression
by:
Steven Feld
4.10 avg rating β 105 ratings
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Being Time: Case Studies in Musical Temporality
by:
Richard Glover
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 7 ratings
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In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise
by:
George Prochnik
3.48 avg rating β 579 ratings
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Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art
by:
Brandon LaBelle
3.93 avg rating β 107 ratings
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After Sound: Toward a Critical Music
by:
G. Douglas Barrett
3.50 avg rating β 8 ratings
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Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds
by:
David Toop
4.11 avg rating β 1,778 ratings
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Sonic Possible Worlds: Hearing the Continuum of Sound
by:
SalomΓ© Voegelin
3.85 avg rating β 33 ratings
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Writing the Field Recording: Sound, Word, Environment
by:
Stephen Benson
3.83 avg rating β 6 ratings
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Earth Sound Earth Signal
by:
Douglas Kahn
4.65 avg rating β 23 ratings
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Sonic Thinking: A Media Philosophical Approach
by:
Bernd Herzogenrath
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Experimental Music Since 1970
by:
Jennie Gottschalk
4.03 avg rating β 76 ratings
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Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice
by:
Mark Peter Wright
3.80 avg rating β 5 ratings
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The Soundscape: Our Environment and the Tuning of the World
by:
R. Murray Schafer
4.11 avg rating β 767 ratings
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The Order of Sounds: A Sonorous Archipelago
by:
FranΓ§ois J. Bonnet
4.05 avg rating β 44 ratings
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Voices of the Wild: Animal Songs, Human Din, and the Call to Save Natural Soundscapes (The Future Series)
by:
Bernie Krause
3.67 avg rating β 45 ratings
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Sound Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice
by:
Brian Kane
4.12 avg rating β 26 ratings
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Autumn Leaves: Sound and the Environment in Artistic Practice
by:
Angus Carlyle
4.25 avg rating β 4 ratings
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In the Field: The art of field recording
by:
Cathy Lane
4.31 avg rating β 110 ratings
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Exploring the Ecologies of Music and Sound
by:
Makis Solomos
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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From Music to Sound: The Emergence of Sound in 20th- and 21st-Century Music
by:
Makis Solomos
4.50 avg rating β 6 ratings
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Sounds: A Philosophical Theory
by:
Casey O'Callaghan
4.12 avg rating β 8 ratings
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Listening through the Noise: The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music
by:
Joanna Demers
3.97 avg rating β 117 ratings
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Annihilating Noise
by:
Paul Hegarty
4.17 avg rating β 6 ratings
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Reverberations: The Philosophy, Aesthetics and Politics of Noise by Halligan, Benjamin, Hegarty, Paul [Bloomsbury Academic, 2012] [Paperback]
by:
Halligan
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Noise/Music: A History
by:
Paul Hegarty
3.60 avg rating β 343 ratings
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The Acoustic City
by:
Matthew Gandy
3.10 avg rating β 10 ratings
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Sounds of the Underground: A Cultural, Political and Aesthetic Mapping of Underground and Fringe Music
by:
Stephen Graham
4.40 avg rating β 5 ratings
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The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
by:
Jonathan Sterne
4.18 avg rating β 189 ratings
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The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places
by:
Bernie Krause
3.95 avg rating β 627 ratings
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Sonic Wonderland: A Scientific Odyssey of Sound
by:
Trevor J. Cox
3.77 avg rating β 455 ratings
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Inflamed Invisible: Collected Writings on Art and Sound, 1976β2018
by:
David Toop
3.44 avg rating β 16 ratings
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Why Do Whales & Children Sing
by:
David Dunn
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise
by:
David Rothenberg
3.31 avg rating β 153 ratings
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Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction
by:
David George Haskell
3.97 avg rating β 370 ratings
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The Book of Music and Nature: An Anthology of Sounds, Words, Thoughts
by:
David Rothenberg
4.28 avg rating β 39 ratings
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Sound Art Revisited
by:
Alan Licht
4.05 avg rating β 21 ratings
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Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise
by:
Michel Chion
4.14 avg rating β 58 ratings
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On The Periphery - David Sylvian - A Biography
by:
Christopher E. Young
3.12 avg rating β 32 ratings
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A Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation
by:
John Corbett
4.03 avg rating β 128 ratings
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Free Jazz: A Research and Information Guide
by:
Jeff Schwartz
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Improvisando. La libre creaciΓ³n musical (TURNER MΓSICA)
by:
Wade Matthews
4.22 avg rating β 9 ratings
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Pianos, Toys, Music and Noise: Conversations with Steve Beresford
by:
Andy Hamilton
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 4 ratings
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The Practice of Musical Improvisation: Dialogues with Contemporary Musical Improvisers
by:
Bertrand Denzler
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Sound Objects
by:
James A. Steintrager
3.71 avg rating β 7 ratings
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Electronic and Experimental Music: Foundations of New Music and New Listening
by:
Thom Holmes
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 6 ratings
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Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century
by:
Kate Molleson
4.35 avg rating β 154 ratings