Beyond Sound
Beyond Sound

Author: Scott L. Phillips

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-07-18

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 019983766X

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Beyond Sound is a must-read for anyone who loves music technology and wants to build a career in this competitive, fast-paced world. Author Scott L. Phillips draws on his seventeen-year career as a technology trainer and educator, and his extensive network of music technology professionals, to present an intimate view of the exciting world of music technology. The book offers an in-depth consideration of music technology education, including looks at specific programs and a clear explanation of different types of degrees. Moreover, it provides practical guidance on career preparation, including how to get a great internship, how to land that first job, and how to make connections and move up in a variety of businesses from recording to television and film to video games. And Phillips brings stories from successful professionals, who share their experiences, advice, and suggestions.

Sound Art
Sound Art

Author: Alan Licht

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 9780847829699

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"In this volume, author Alan Licht lays bear the origins of sound art, offering the reader the most thorough understanding of the field to date, and explores the genre's most important practitioners"--Jacket, p. [2].

Beyond Unwanted Sound
Beyond Unwanted Sound

Author: Marie Thompson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2017-02-09

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1501313320

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Noise is so often a 'stench in the ear' – an unpleasant disturbance or an unwelcome distraction. But there is much more to noise than what greets the ear as unwanted sound. Beyond Unwanted Sound is about noise and how we talk about it. Weaving together affect theory with cybernetics, media histories, acoustic ecology, geo-politics, sonic art practices and a range of noises, Marie Thompson critiques both the conservative politics of silence and transgressive poetics of noise music, each of which position noise as a negative phenomenon. Beyond Unwanted Sound instead aims to account for a broader spectrum of noise, ranging from the exceptional to the banal; the overwhelming to the inaudible; and the destructive to the generative. What connects these various and variable manifestations of noise is not negativity but affectivity. Building on the Spinozist assertion that to exist is to be affected, Beyond Unwanted Sound asserts that to exist is to be affected by noise.

Beyond Dolby (Stereo)
Beyond Dolby (Stereo)

Author: Mark Kerins

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2010-11-23

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 0253004853

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Since digital surround sound technology first appeared in cinemas 20 years ago, it has spread from theaters to homes and from movies to television, music, and video games. Yet even as 5.1 has become the standard for audiovisual media, its impact has gone unexamined. Drawing on works from the past two decades, as well as dozens of interviews with sound designers, mixers, and editors, Mark Kerins uncovers how 5.1 surround has affected not just sound design, but cinematography and editing as well. Beyond Dolby (Stereo) includes detailed analyses of Fight Club, The Matrix, Hairspray, Disturbia, The Rock, Saving Private Ryan, and Joy Ride, among other films, to illustrate the value of a truly audiovisual approach to cinema studies.

Body, Sound and Space in Music and Beyond: Multimodal Explorations
Body, Sound and Space in Music and Beyond: Multimodal Explorations

Author: Clemens Wöllner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-04-07

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 1317173465

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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.

Sound in the Ecstatic-Materialist Perspective on Experimental Music
Sound in the Ecstatic-Materialist Perspective on Experimental Music

Author: Riccardo D. Wanke

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-08-10

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 1000430286

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What does a one hour contemporary orchestral piece by Georg Friedrich Haas have in common with a series of glitch-noise electronic tracks by Pan Sonic? This book proposes that, despite their differences, they share a particular understanding of sound that is found across several quite distinct genres of contemporary art music: the ecstatic-materialist perspective. Sound in the ecstatic-materialist perspective is considered as a material mass or element, unfolding in time, encountered by a listener, for whom the experience of that sound exceeds the purely sonic without becoming entirely divorced from its materiality. It is "material" by virtue of the focus on the texture, consistency, and density of sound; it is "ecstatic" in the etymological sense, that is to say that the experience of this sound involves an instability; an inclination to depart from material appearance, an ephemeral and transitory impulse in the very perception of sound to something beyond – but still related to – it. By examining musical pieces from spectralism to electroacoustic domains, from minimalism to glitch electronica and dubstep, this book identifies the key intrinsic characteristics of this musical perspective. To fully account for this perspective on sonic experience, listener feedback and interviews with composers and performers are also incorporated. Sound in the ecstatic-materialist perspective is the common territory where composers, sound artists, performers, and listeners converge.

Brilliant Light
Brilliant Light

Author: Madabusi Subramanium

Publisher: Fusion Books

Published: 2016-03-07

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 9352610415

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Though by now I have initiated over 2000 persons as Reiki channels and over 200 as Reiki Masters a need was felt by many further initiations. I decided to share my experience and transmit the same to earnest truth seekers. I organized Grand Master initiation and transmitted exactly the same initiation I received at Sidhashram Tibet.