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Is writing about sound like dancing about architecture? Not when it's done by New Zealand's Bruce Russell, who works in sound under his own name and as a member of The Dead C. A past member of A Handful of Dust, Russell is also known for curating the internationally noted record labels XPRESSWAY and Corpus Hermeticum. This collection of essays written over the last 16(...)
Bruce Russell: Left-handed blows: Writing on sound 1993-2009
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Is writing about sound like dancing about architecture? Not when it's done by New Zealand's Bruce Russell, who works in sound under his own name and as a member of The Dead C. A past member of A Handful of Dust, Russell is also known for curating the internationally noted record labels XPRESSWAY and Corpus Hermeticum. This collection of essays written over the last 16 years reflects on sound, its role in culture, and Russell's thoughts toward a technique of incognito. Includes online essays, dialogs, liner notes, catalog contributions and most of the previously published contents of Logopandocy: the journal of vain erudition.
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Harmonograph is an introduction to the evolution of simple harmonic theory, from the discoveries of Pythagoras to diatonic tuning and equal temperament. Drawings show the octave as triangle, the fifth as pentagram; diagrams show the principles of harmonics, overtones, and the monochord.
Harmonograph : a visual guide to the mathematics of music
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Harmonograph is an introduction to the evolution of simple harmonic theory, from the discoveries of Pythagoras to diatonic tuning and equal temperament. Drawings show the octave as triangle, the fifth as pentagram; diagrams show the principles of harmonics, overtones, and the monochord.
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August 2002
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New perspectives on sound have generated a wave of scholarship in musicology, cultural studies, and the social sciences. But the equally important rise of sound in the arts since 1960 has so far been sparsely documented. This volume is the first sourcebook to provide, through original critical writings and artists’ statements, a genealogy of sonic pathways into the arts,(...)
Sound: Documents of contemporary art
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New perspectives on sound have generated a wave of scholarship in musicology, cultural studies, and the social sciences. But the equally important rise of sound in the arts since 1960 has so far been sparsely documented. This volume is the first sourcebook to provide, through original critical writings and artists’ statements, a genealogy of sonic pathways into the arts, philosophical reflections on the meanings of noise and silence, dialogues between art and music, investigations of the role of listening and acoustic space, and a comprehensive survey of sound works by international artists from the avant-garde era to the present.
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L’acoustique architecturale cherche à favoriser l’écoute ou à protéger du bruit. Dans les deux cas, il est nécessaire de comprendre comment le son se propage dans l’espace afin d’en identifier le cheminement et la réception. Cette publication initie à cette problématique et explique les grandes règles de l’isolation et les techniques de base mais aussi les dernières(...)
Comprendre simplement l'acoustique des bâtiments, 2e édition
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L’acoustique architecturale cherche à favoriser l’écoute ou à protéger du bruit. Dans les deux cas, il est nécessaire de comprendre comment le son se propage dans l’espace afin d’en identifier le cheminement et la réception. Cette publication initie à cette problématique et explique les grandes règles de l’isolation et les techniques de base mais aussi les dernières avancées les plus innovantes, conformes aux exigences réglementaires.
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Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dread - to produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the “psychoacoustic correction” aimed at Panama strongman Manuel Noriega by the U.S. Army and at the Branch Davidians in Waco by the FBI, sonic booms (or “sound bombs”) over the Gaza Strip, and high-frequency rat(...)
Sonic warfare : sound, affect, and the ecology of fear
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Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dread - to produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the “psychoacoustic correction” aimed at Panama strongman Manuel Noriega by the U.S. Army and at the Branch Davidians in Waco by the FBI, sonic booms (or “sound bombs”) over the Gaza Strip, and high-frequency rat repellants used against teenagers in malls. At the same time, artists and musicians generate intense frequencies in the search for new aesthetic experiences and new ways of mobilizing bodies in rhythm. In Sonic Warfare, Steve Goodman explores these uses of acoustic force and how they affect populations. Traversing philosophy, science, fiction, aesthetics, and popular culture, he maps a (dis)continuum of vibrational force, encompassing police and military research into acoustic means of crowd control, the corporate deployment of sonic branding, and the intense sonic encounters of sound art and music culture. Goodman concludes with speculations on the not yet heard - the concept of unsound, which relates to both the peripheries of auditory perception and the unactualized nexus of rhythms and frequencies within audible bandwidths
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MP3: The Meaning of a Format recounts the hundred-year history of the world's most common format for recorded audio. Understanding the historical meaning of the MP3 format entails rethinking the place of digital technologies in the larger universe of twentieth-century communication history, from hearing research conducted by the telephone industry in the 1910s, through(...)
Jonathan Sterne : MP3, the meaning of a format
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MP3: The Meaning of a Format recounts the hundred-year history of the world's most common format for recorded audio. Understanding the historical meaning of the MP3 format entails rethinking the place of digital technologies in the larger universe of twentieth-century communication history, from hearing research conducted by the telephone industry in the 1910s, through the mid-century development of perceptual coding (the technology underlying the MP3), to the format's promiscuous social life since the mid 1990s.
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Sounds belong to the City. They determine spaces and identities. For years, artists have been using city noises as a material to stage or to question urban space - new territory, however, for most architects and planners within the routines of functional planning rocedures. Tuned City: Between Sound and Space Speculation searches for a new evaluation of architectural(...)
Tuned city: between sound and space speculation
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Sounds belong to the City. They determine spaces and identities. For years, artists have been using city noises as a material to stage or to question urban space - new territory, however, for most architects and planners within the routines of functional planning rocedures. Tuned City: Between Sound and Space Speculation searches for a new evaluation of architectural spaces from the perspective of acoustics. This volume presents various positions of architects, artists and theorists to expand the architectural discourse with the dimension of listening.
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September 2008
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This is David Byrne’s celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. In it he explores how profoundly music is shaped by its time and place, and he explains how the advent of recording technology in the twentieth century forever changed our relationship to playing, performing, and listening to music.
David Byrne : How music works
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This is David Byrne’s celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. In it he explores how profoundly music is shaped by its time and place, and he explains how the advent of recording technology in the twentieth century forever changed our relationship to playing, performing, and listening to music.
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À travers l’évocation d’expériences souvent hors du commun, Oliver Sacks explore la dimension musicale de l’homme : comment la musique nous habite, nous change et parfois même nous guérit. Souvent perçue comme dénuée de signification, la musique nous touche pourtant à plusieurs degrés. Elle a sur nous une portée émotionnelle, qu’elle nous arrache à la dépression ou(...)
Oliver Sacks : Musicophilia, la musique, le cerveau et nous (format poche)
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À travers l’évocation d’expériences souvent hors du commun, Oliver Sacks explore la dimension musicale de l’homme : comment la musique nous habite, nous change et parfois même nous guérit. Souvent perçue comme dénuée de signification, la musique nous touche pourtant à plusieurs degrés. Elle a sur nous une portée émotionnelle, qu’elle nous arrache à la dépression ou qu’elle nous rende mélancolique. Nous incitant à la danse, elle est aussi une expérience sensorielle. Il arrive même que notre rapport à elle soit symptomatique d’un problème médical ; inversement elle peut avoir des vertus thérapeutiques. Il y avait donc matière à s’interroger sur la dimension musicale de l’homme pour un neurologue aussi compétent et curieux qu’Oliver Sacks. Et c’est en déployant une galerie de portraits – du chirurgien devenu pianiste après avoir été frappé par la foudre au frère manchot de Wittgenstein, en passant par les familiers de la synesthésie ou les arriérés mentaux mélomanes – qu’il questionne les rapports du cerveau et de la musique.
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Réalisé conjointement par le photographe norvégien Geir Egil Bergjord et Pierre Henry, ce livre invite à pénétrer dans la maison du quartier de Picpus à Paris où le compositeur s'est établi depuis 1971 et à parcourir pièce après pièce cet endroit magique, une «maison de sons» tout à la fois lieu de vie, laboratoire musical et atelier d'artiste. Sur tous les murs, dans les(...)
La maison de sons de Pierre Henry
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Réalisé conjointement par le photographe norvégien Geir Egil Bergjord et Pierre Henry, ce livre invite à pénétrer dans la maison du quartier de Picpus à Paris où le compositeur s'est établi depuis 1971 et à parcourir pièce après pièce cet endroit magique, une «maison de sons» tout à la fois lieu de vie, laboratoire musical et atelier d'artiste. Sur tous les murs, dans les escaliers, la cuisine, la bibliothèque ou la chambre à coucher court une multitude d'objets et de «peintures concrètes», écho ou contrepoint plastique aux pièces sonores en gestation. Un univers. Un CD est offert avec le livre, comportant 4 œuvres inédites de Pierre Henry : Capriccio, 2009 (19'34") ; Phrases de quatuor, 2000 (17'15") ; Miroir du temps, 2008 (23'22") ; Envol, 2010 (13'45").
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