Echo's Chambers
Echo's Chambers

Author: Joseph L. Clarke

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2021-06-08

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0822988038

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A room’s acoustic character seems at once the most technical and the most mystical of concerns. Since the early Enlightenment, European architects have systematically endeavored to represent and control the propagation of sound in large interior spaces. Their work has been informed by the science of sound but has also been entangled with debates on style, visualization techniques, performance practices, and the expansion of the listening public. Echo’s Chambers explores how architectural experimentation from the seventeenth through the mid-twentieth centuries laid the groundwork for concepts of acoustic space that are widely embraced in contemporary culture. It focuses on the role of echo and reverberation in the architecture of Pierre Patte, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Carl Ferdinand Langhans, and Le Corbusier, as well as the influential acoustic ideas of Athanasius Kircher, Richard Wagner, and Marshall McLuhan. Drawing on interdisciplinary theories of media and auditory culture, Joseph L. Clarke reveals how architecture has impacted the ways we continue to listen to, talk about, and creatively manipulate sound in the physical environment.

Enchanters: Royal Secrets
Enchanters: Royal Secrets

Author: A.M. Sequeira

Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers

Published: 2024-07-31

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 9948760158

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Now that I had enrolled myself in the most well-known academy, Silverstring Academy for Enchanters and Enchantresses. Now that I had begun to blend in with my kind—the magical kind. All I wanted was normal schooling and to get to know my roots better. Little did I know that my roots were rotten to the core. I was 17, a teenager, when I ascended to the throne; forced into marriage with the most demonic king Ariesque had ever known. People feared his name, but he knew my past, knew my parents, and he killed them. He knew me, yet I had never met him before. They call him Maldeus—God of Death. But I was in love with the prince who was secretly enrolled in the academy when I took the throne. Years later, here I am, justifying my choices to the Enchanter’s Community. Why I murdered my close ones, why I took up the throne, and what happened to my love story with the prince.

The Enchanters Vs. Sprawlburg Springs
The Enchanters Vs. Sprawlburg Springs

Author: Brian Costello

Publisher: featherproof books

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0977199207

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The Enchanters vs. Sprawlburg Springs is a satirical, riotous story of a band trapped in suburbia and bent on changing the world. A frenzied "scene" whips up around them as they gain popularity, and the band members begin thinking big. It's a hilarious, crazy send-up of self-destructive musicians.

Relentless Love
Relentless Love

Author: Edwin Carl Smith

Publisher: Sentient Publications

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1591810213

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Ed Smith defines enchantment as 'that place where our life and our deepest dreams merge' and he maintains that it is our true nature. In 'Relentless Love', he proposes that we can live lives of enchantment through the practice of relentless love. He inspires us to create a world based on our intention to love and our faith in life and contends that evolution is propelling us to do so. He defines evolution as 'events you do not like that converge to create a possibility you could not anticipate'. This is an original, lucid, voice with something very compelling and vital to say that can change all of our lives.

Hushabye
Hushabye

Author: Al Contrera

Publisher: Balboa Press

Published: 2018-04-17

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1982200286

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An original founding member of the Mystics, author Al Contrera tells the true story of how five Brooklyn teenagers went from singing on street corners to fame in the fifties with their first hit song, “Hushabye.” Contrera, provides vivid and detailed accounts of the trials and adventures of forming a rock-‘n’-roll group in a neighborhood controlled by the mob. He narrates the story of the group’s formation, their recording and touring career, as well as their successes and heartbreaks, including the story of when the Mystics’ lead singer was arrested for being an innocent witness to a holdup and accidental shooting by a neighborhood gang and was mistakenly jailed for two years. Hushabye tells about walking the fine line between the music and the mob and how peer pressure and the temptations of fame changed their lives. Contrera offers keen insight and background into the sweet sound of the street corner doo-wop harmonies of the 1950s.

The Helm of Midnight
The Helm of Midnight

Author: Marina Lostetter

Publisher: Tor Books

Published: 2021-04-13

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 1250258731

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Hannibal meets Mistborn in Marina Lostetter’s THE HELM OF MIDNIGHT, the dark and stunning first novel in a new trilogy that combines the intricate worldbuilding and rigorous magic system of the best of epic fantasy with a dark and chilling thriller. In a daring and deadly heist, thieves have made away with an artifact of terrible power—the death mask of Louis Charbon. Made by a master craftsman, it is imbued with the spirit of a monster from history, a serial murderer who terrorized the city. Now Charbon is loose once more, killing from beyond the grave. But these murders are different from before, not simply random but the work of a deliberate mind probing for answers to a sinister question. It is up to Krona Hirvath and her fellow Regulators to enter the mind of madness to stop this insatiable killer while facing the terrible truths left in his wake. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.