The Shape Of Sounds

Author : Timothy B Layden
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1446644219
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shape of Sounds written by Timothy B Layden and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shape of sounds is a series of sound and visual art developed by synesthetic artistThe work explores how the invisible world of sound can manifest itself in visually through an overlapping of the senses.

Author : Fiona Murphy
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1922330515
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shape of Sound written by Fiona Murphy and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and essential memoir of deafness, disability and identity by Australian writer Fiona Murphy

Author : Timothy Donaldson
Publisher : Mark Batty Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shapes for Sounds written by Timothy Donaldson and published by Mark Batty Publisher. This book was released on 2008 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-six letters account for the approximately 43 elementary sounds in the English language, which contains close to 500,000 words. Compiled and designed by Timothy Donaldson, "Shapes for Sounds" comprises illustrated charts that track the history and development of the written alphabet and its connection to oral traditions. Donaldson's text also elucidates the connections between speech and written language through his chapters that touch on the organs of speech, the physics of articulation, the naming of letters and the shaping of letters. An established typeface designer, Donaldson taught typography at Stafford College, England, and is a Research Fellow at the University of Lincoln, UK.

Author : Roman Jakobson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3112322215
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sound Shape of Language written by Roman Jakobson and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "The Sound Shape of Language".

Author : David George Haskell
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984881566
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sounds Wild and Broken written by David George Haskell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction and the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Winner of the Acoustical Society of America's 2023 Science Communication Award “[A] glorious guide to the miracle of life’s sound.” —The New York Times Book Review A lyrical exploration of the diverse sounds of our planet, the creative processes that produced these marvels, and the perils that sonic diversity now faces We live on a planet alive with song, music, and speech. David Haskell explores how these wonders came to be. In rain forests shimmering with insect sound and swamps pulsing with frog calls we learn about evolution’s creative powers. From birds in the Rocky Mountains and on the streets of Paris, we discover how animals learn their songs and adapt to new environments. Below the waves, we hear our kinship to beings as different as snapping shrimp, toadfish, and whales. In the startlingly divergent sonic vibes of the animals of different continents, we experience the legacies of plate tectonics, the deep history of animal groups and their movements around the world, and the quirks of aesthetic evolution. Starting with the origins of animal song and traversing the whole arc of Earth history, Haskell illuminates and celebrates the emergence of the varied sounds of our world. In mammoth ivory flutes from Paleolithic caves, violins in modern concert halls, and electronic music in earbuds, we learn that human music and language belong within this story of ecology and evolution. Yet we are also destroyers, now silencing or smothering many of the sounds of the living Earth. Haskell takes us to threatened forests, noise-filled oceans, and loud city streets, and shows that sonic crises are not mere losses of sensory ornament. Sound is a generative force, and so the erasure of sonic diversity makes the world less creative, just, and beautiful. The appreciation of the beauty and brokenness of sound is therefore an important guide in today’s convulsions and crises of change and inequity. Sounds Wild and Broken is an invitation to listen, wonder, belong, and act.

Author : Seth S. Horowitz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608190900
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Universal Sense written by Seth S. Horowitz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals how the human sense of hearing manipulates how people think, consume, sleep and feel, explaining the hearing science behind such phenomena as why people fall asleep while traveling, the reason fingernails on a chalkboard causes cringing and why songs get stuck in one's head.

Author : Constance Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar's Grouchy Sounds written by Constance Allen and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : D. S. P. Dahanayake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shape of Speech written by D. S. P. Dahanayake and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clemens Wöllner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317173473
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Body, Sound and Space in Music and Beyond: Multimodal Explorations written by Clemens Wöllner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Body and space refer to vital and interrelated dimensions in the experience of sounds and music. Sounds have an overwhelming impact on feelings of bodily presence and inform us about the space we experience. Even in situations where visual information is artificial or blurred, such as in virtual environments or certain genres of film and computer games, sounds may shape our perceptions and lead to surprising new experiences. This book discusses recent developments in a range of interdisciplinary fields, taking into account the rapidly changing ways of experiencing sounds and music, the consequences for how we engage with sonic events in daily life and the technological advancements that offer insights into state-of-the-art methods and future perspectives. Topics range from the pleasures of being locked into the beat of the music, perception–action coupling and bodily resonance, and affordances of musical instruments, to neural processing and cross-modal experiences of space and pitch. Applications of these findings are discussed for movement sonification, room acoustics, networked performance, and for the spatial coordination of movements in dance, computer gaming and interactive artistic installations.

Author : Michel Chion
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 082237482X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sound written by Michel Chion and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in French in 1998, revised in 2010, and appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion's Sound addresses the philosophical, interpretive, and practical questions that inform our encounters with sound. Chion considers how cultural institutions privilege some sounds above others and how spurious distinctions between noise and sound guide the ways we hear and value certain sounds. He critiques the tenacious tendency to understand sounds in relation to their sources and advocates "acousmatic" listening—listening without visual access to a sound’s cause—to disentangle ourselves from auditory habits and prejudices. Yet sound can no more be reduced to mere perceptual phenomena than encapsulated in the sciences of acoustics and physiology. As Chion reminds us and explores in depth, a wide range of linguistic, sensory, cultural, institutional, and media- and technologically-specific factors interact with and shape sonic experiences. Interrogating these interactions, Chion stimulates us to think about how we might open our ears to new sounds, become more nuanced and informed listeners, and more fully understand the links between how we hear and what we do.