Beast-Speaker 4
Beast-Speaker 4

Author: W. A. Noble

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2022-08-30

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1666754064

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Fans of W A Noble’s Beast-Speaker trilogy will be pleased that the series has been expanded to include a fourth book which takes the story in a truly unexpected direction. The war is long over and the children who were its victims and heroes are growing up quickly. But just when life seems to be granting them a period of peace and normality, they are called upon to find a cure for the mysterious disease eating away at the limbs and life of their city’s leader. Ancient cryptic clues lead them to a far-away and long forgotten mountain enclave where Seeger encounters a very different kind of beast to anything he has seen before. Even with the timely assistance of some dragons, the outcome of this quest remains in the balance until the final pages.

The Fundamentals of Sonic Art and Sound Design
The Fundamentals of Sonic Art and Sound Design

Author: Tony Gibbs

Publisher: AVA Publishing

Published: 2007-07-10

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 2940373493

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Sound is all around. In movies. On TV. On the radio. Now the idea that sound can be an artistic medium in its own right is shaking the art world. Written by an authority in the field, The Fundamentals of Sonic Arts and Sound Design describes and begins the process of defining this entirely new subject. Topics covered include new and radical approaches to sound recording, performance, installation works and exhibitions, plus visits with sonic artists and sound designers. Designed for students, yet packed with exciting examples of the principles and practice of this new art form, this book is on the cutting edge where technology and art meet.

Sound and the Ancient Senses
Sound and the Ancient Senses

Author: Shane Butler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-03

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1317300424

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Sound leaves no ruins and no residues, even though it is experienced constantly. It is ubiquitous but fleeting. Even silence has sound, even absence resonates. Sound and the Ancient Senses aims to hear the lost sounds of antiquity, from the sounds of the human body to those of the gods, from the bathhouse to the Forum, from the chirp of a cicada to the music of the spheres. Sound plays so great a role in shaping our environments as to make it a crucial sounding board for thinking about space and ecology, emotions and experience, mortality and the divine, orality and textuality, and the self and its connection to others. From antiquity to the present day, poets and philosophers have strained to hear the ways that sounds structure our world and identities. This volume looks at theories and practices of hearing and producing sounds in ritual contexts, medicine, mourning, music, poetry, drama, erotics, philosophy, rhetoric, linguistics, vocality, and on the page, and shows how ancient ideas of sound still shape how and what we hear today. As the first comprehensive introduction to the soundscapes of antiquity, this volume makes a significant contribution to the burgeoning fields of sound and voice studies and is the final volume of the series, The Senses in Antiquity.

The Oxford Handbook of Sound Art
The Oxford Handbook of Sound Art

Author: Jane Grant

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 0190274050

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Sound art has long been resistant to its own definition. Emerging from a liminal space between movements of thought and practice in the twentieth century, sound art has often been described in terms of the things that it is understood to have left behind: a space between music, fine art, and performance. The Oxford Handbook of Sound Art surveys the practices, politics, and emerging frameworks of thought that now define this previously amorphous area of study. Throughout the Handbook, artists and thinkers explore the uses of sound in contemporary arts practice. Imbued with global perspectives, chapters are organized in six overarching themes of Space, Time, Things, Fabric, Senses and Relationality. Each theme represents a key area of development in the visual arts and music during the second half of the twentieth century from which sound art emerged. By offering a set of thematic frameworks through which to understand these themes, this Handbook situates constellations of disparate thought and practice into recognized centers of activity.

Deadly Beasts Book 4: Imperfect Love
Deadly Beasts Book 4: Imperfect Love

Author: TM Watkins

Publisher: TM Watkins

Published: 1900

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0463648129

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A love that's taken over two hundred years to get right. One mistake will alter the path of a young woman. Falsely accused, Lillian is sent to the other side of the world as a convict. Her future is set in stone, destined to a destitute life as a prostitute in a place that civilisation has almost forgotten. Lillian's path will alter because of one man. Gabrielus Montrose buys her life and saves her from a terrible fate. Her future will change and it will be in the hands of a man that has many dark secrets and leads a strange life. In her new life, she becomes Leah. Leaving the past behind, she forges a new life as a servant and in time, a wife and lover. When life for a woman is being ruled and bound to a man, Leah struggles with her subservient role to Gabe. He needs a matriarch for his dynasty, he wants her in his life and by his side but he is blinded by the suffering and the belief that he knows what Leah wants. The curse that has befallen the sons of the five brothers causes heartache for Gabe and Leah. Their love could be strong, if only they could get over the one little issue between them. One wrong move will change their lives, tearing them apart and leaving them broken and hurt for many years.