Download or read book Just Vibrations written by William Cheng and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern academic criticism bursts with what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick once termed paranoid readings—interpretative feats that aim to prove a point, persuade an audience, and subtly denigrate anyone who disagrees. Driven by strategies of negation and suspicion, such rhetoric tends to drown out softer-spoken reparative efforts, which forego forceful argument in favor of ruminations on pleasure, love, sentiment, reform, care, and accessibility. Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good calls for a time-out in our serious games of critical exchange. Charting the divergent paths of paranoid and reparative affects through illness narratives, academic work, queer life, noise pollution, sonic torture, and other touchy subjects, William Cheng exposes a host of stubborn norms in our daily orientations toward scholarship, self, and sound. How we choose to think about the perpetration and tolerance of critical and acoustic offenses may ultimately lead us down avenues of ethical ruin—or, if we choose, repair. With recourse to experimental rhetoric, interdisciplinary discretion, and the playful wisdoms of childhood, Cheng contends that reparative attitudes toward music and musicology can serve as barometers of better worlds.
Download or read book Great Church Sound written by James Wasem and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second Edition
Download or read book Speaking Scared Sounding Good written by Peter Desberg and published by Square One Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-01-08 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millions, the idea of public speaking is terrifying--actually ranking ahead of the fear of death. Many books on public speaking promise to turn shy talkers into impressively confident speakers, but Speaking Scared, Sounding Good is different. Written by Dr. Peter Desberg, a practicing psychologist who has taught thousands of people to speak in front of groups, it doesn’t make ridiculous claims. What it does do is provide you with proven techniques that will enable you to make it through any speech and—even though you may still be nervous—sound as if you know what you are talking about. You’ll learn how to relax, how to focus, and how to set reachable goals for yourself. Through worksheets and self-tests, you’ll be able to isolate and address your individual needs. The author even discusses the unique speaking problems associated with dyslexia. If the fear of public speaking has been holding you back in your career—or if you’ve simply run out of excuses to avoid talking in front of your local garden club—Speaking Scared, Sounding Good will successfully guide you through the process.
Download or read book Pat Metheny Guitar Etudes Music Instruction written by Pat Metheny and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Guitar Book). One of the most common questions Pat is asked by students is, "What kinds of things do you do to warm up before a concert?" Over the years, in many master classes and workshops around the world, Pat has demonstrated the kind of daily workout he puts himself through. This book includes a collection of 14 guitar etudes he created to help you limber up, improve picking technique and build finger independence.
Download or read book Mixing Audio written by Roey Izhaki and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your mix can make or break a record, and mixing is an essential catalyst for a record deal. Professional engineers with exceptional mixing skills can earn vast amounts of money and find that they are in demand by the biggest acts. To develop such skills, you need to master both the art and science of mixing. The new edition of this bestselling book offers all you need to know and put into practice in order to improve your mixes. Covering the entire process --from fundamental concepts to advanced techniques -- and offering a multitude of audio samples, tips and tricks, this book has it all. Roey Izhaki teaches you the importance of a mixing vision, how to craft and evaluate your mix and then take it a step further. He describes the theory and the tools used and how these are put into practice while creating mixes. Packed full of photos, graphs, diagrams and audio samples, Mixing Audio is a vital read for anyone wanting to succeed in the field of mixing. New to this edition: * Multitracks provided to help practice mixing * Fully updated with current plug-in and software version and information * Companion website with a multitude of new samples including more macro-mixing samples * A new sample mix: Rock n' Roll
Download or read book How to Make Your Band Sound Great written by Bobby Owsinski and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the skill involved in playing an instrument, getting musicians to play together well is an art form in itself. The secrets of how a guitarist, bassist, vocalist, drummer, keyboard player, and more can come together to create a unified sound usually reveal themselves only after years of stage and studio experience. This book explores every aspect of playing with other musicians, including the equipment, hardware, and software used in today's increasingly complex technological world, and the principles of sound every musician needs to know to work at the level of a professional band. So if you're ready to take your band beyond countless rehearsals and fast-forward to a professional sound, How to Make Your Band Sound Great is the guide you need to get you there. Complete with a 60-minute instructional DVD, How to Make Your Band Sound Great supplies instant access to producer and engineer Bobby Owsinski's years of real-life professional experience with bands of all types as a player, recording engineer, and record producer. The book-and-DVD package provides all you need to know to get your band on the way to sounding great using the techniques of veteran professional performing acts in the studio and on the stage.
Download or read book Sounding Islam written by Patrick Eisenlohr and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Sounding Islam provides a provocative account of the sonic dimensions of religion, combining perspectives from the anthropology of media and sound studies, as well as drawing on neo-phenomenological approaches to atmospheres. Using long-term ethnographic research on devotional Islam in Mauritius, Patrick Eisenlohr explores how the voice, as a site of divine manifestation, becomes refracted in media practices that have become integral parts of religious traditions. At the core of Eisenlohr’s concern is the interplay of voice, media, affect, and listeners’ religious experiences. Sounding Islam sheds new light on a key dimension of religion, the sonic incitement of sensations that are often difficult to translate into language.
Download or read book The Musician written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wedding Cake Murder written by Joanne Fluke and published by Kensington Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2016 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah is marrying Ross Barton, her college crush, but not before she can solve the murder case of nasty celebrity chef Alain Duquesne found stabbed to death in the Lake Eden Inn's walk-in cooler.
Download or read book Sounding the Seasons written by Malcolm Guite and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry has always been a central element of Christian spirituality and is increasingly used in worship, in pastoral services and guided meditation. Here, Cambridge poet, priest and singer-songwriter Malcolm Guite transforms 70 lectionary readings into inspiring poems for use in regular worship, seasonal services, meditative reading or on retreat.
Download or read book Mixing Audio written by Roey Izhaki and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-07-26 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mixing Audio: Concepts, Practices, and Tools is a vital read for anyone wanting to succeed in the field of mixing—covering the entire mixing process, from fundamental concepts to advanced techniques. Packed full of photos, graphs, diagrams, and audio samples, it teaches the importance of a mixing vision, how to craft and evaluate your mix, and then take it a step further. Mixing Audio describes the theory, the tools, and how these are put into practice while creating mixes. The companion website, featuring over 2,000 audio samples as well as Multitrack Audio Sessions, is a perfect complement to the book. The new edition includes: An extension of the discussion on mastering which now includes the loudness war, LUFS targets, and DIY mastering Updated figures and illustrations throughout A new section covering console emulation
Download or read book Perfecting Sound Forever written by Greg Milner and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1915, Thomas Edison proclaimed that he could record a live performance and reproduce it perfectly, shocking audiences who found themselves unable to tell whether what they were hearing was an Edison Diamond Disc or a flesh-and-blood musician. Today, the equation is reversed. Whereas Edison proposed that a real performance could be rebuilt with absolute perfection, Pro Tools and digital samplers now allow musicians and engineers to create the illusion of performances that never were. In between lies a century of sonic exploration into the balance between the real and the represented. Tracing the contours of this history, Greg Milner takes us through the major breakthroughs and glorious failures in the art and science of recording. An American soldier monitoring Nazi radio transmissions stumbles onto the open yet revolutionary secret of magnetic tape. Japanese and Dutch researchers build a first-generation digital audio format and watch as their "compact disc" is marketed by the music industry as the second coming of Edison yet derided as heretical by analog loyalists. The music world becomes addicted to volume in the nineties and fights a self-defeating "loudness war" to get its fix. From Les Paul to Phil Spector to King Tubby, from vinyl to pirated CDs to iPods, Milner's Perfecting Sound Forever pulls apart musical history to answer a crucial question: Should a recording document reality as faithfully as possible, or should it improve upon or somehow transcend the music it records? The answers he uncovers will change the very way we think about music.
Download or read book It s the Way You Say It written by Carol A. Fleming and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised and updated edition of the detailed, down-to-earth guide to speaking your mind effectively—includes useful exercises. The best, most direct way to convey your intelligence, expertise, professionalism, and personality to other people is through talking to them. But most people have no idea what they sound like. And even if they do, they don’t think they can change it. It’s the Way You Say It is a thorough, nuts-and-bolts guide to becoming aware and taking control of how you communicate with others. Dr. Carol Fleming provides detailed advice and scores of exercises for Understanding how others hear you Dealing with specific speech problems Varying your vocal patterns to make your speech more dynamic Using grammar and vocabulary to increase your clarity and impact Reinforcing your message with nonverbal cues Conquering stage fright An entire section of the book focuses on communication issues in the workplace—interviews, presentations, voice mail, and more. In addition, Dr. Fleming puts a human face on her advice through vivid before-and-after stories of forty men and women who came to her for help. “No other skills will position you ahead of your competition as much as good speaking and presentation skills. No book approaches the depth and breadth of Dr. Carol Fleming’s It’s the Way You Say It.” —Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE, keynote speaker, executive speech coach, and president of Fripp & Associates
Download or read book Making Rumours written by Ken Caillat and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside the making of one of the biggest-selling albums of all time: Fleetwood Mac's Rumours Fleetwood Mac's classic 1977 Rumours album topped the Billboard 200 for thirty-one weeks and won the Album of the Year Grammy. More recently, Rolling Stone named it the twenty-fifth greatest album of all time and the hit TV series Glee devoted an entire episode to songs from Rumours, introducing it to a new generation. Now, for the first time, Ken Caillat, the album's co-producer, tells the full story of what really went into making Rumours—from the endless partying and relationship dramas to the creative struggles to write and record "You Make Loving Fun," "Don't Stop," "Go Your Own Way," "The Chain," and other timeless tracks. Tells the fascinating, behind-the-music story of the making of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, written by the producer who saw it all happen Filled with new and surprising details, such as Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham's screaming match while recording "You Make Loving Fun," how the band coped with the pressures of increasing success, how the master tape nearly disintegrated, and the incredible attention paid to even the tiniest elements of songs, from Lindsey playing a chair to Mick breaking glass Includes eighty black-and-white photographs
Download or read book Settling Scores written by Danielle Stewart and published by Danielle Stewart. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willow has been saved from a painfully dark past and handed a bright future. By all accounts, she should be happy. But no one seems to understand that escaping evil hasn’t left her feeling free of it. The more people try to hold her close, the harder she fights to get away. Even the unconditional support from Edenville isn’t enough to help her keep her head above water. On a journey to settle scores and find answers to questions that haunt her memories, Willow hopes to mend her heart. Meanwhile, the man she has pushed away time and again fights to show her the only chance she has at happiness is opening her heart to the love that is right in front of her. But even Josh’s loyalty has its limits; how long before even he gives up on her, considering she’s already given up on herself?
Download or read book How to Care for Aging Parents 3rd Edition written by Virginia Morris and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The bible of eldercare”—ABC World News. “An indispensable book”—AARP. “A compassionate guide of encyclopedic proportion”—The Washington Post. And, winner of a Books for a Better Life Award. How to Care for Aging Parents is the best and bestselling book of its kind, and its author, Virginia Morris, is the go-to person on eldercare for the media, appearing on Oprah, TODAY, and Good Morning America, among many other outlets. How to Care for Aging Parents is an authoritative, clear, and comforting source of advice and support for the ever-growing number of Americans—now 42 million—who care for an elderly parent, relative, or friend. And now, in its third edition, it is completely overhauled and updated, chapter-by-chapter and page-by-page, with the most recent medical findings and recommendations. It includes a whole new chapter on fraud; details on the latest “aging in place” technologies; more helpful online resources; and everything you need to know about current laws and regulations. Also new are fill-in worksheets for gathering specifics on medications; caregivers’ names, schedules, and contact info; doctors’ phone numbers and addresses; and other essential information in one handy place at the back of the book. From having that first difficult conversation to arranging a funeral and dealing with grief—and all of the other important issues in between—How to Care for Aging Parents is the essential guide.
Download or read book Ski to Me Kate written by Beeb Turner Wohlgemuth and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Remembering Olsen & Exchanging Pleasantries comes a whirlwind of fun from behind the eyes of some of the country's worst anxiety attack victims. This Dramedy stems from exaggerated notes taken out of a journal written by the instruction of what appears to be the world's most effective organization dedicated to curing anxiety and depression. The author, a sufferer of panic attacks, found the product at the height of life altering anxiety and decided to turn the notes into a story. In Anxiety Stricken we are able to laugh at our disorders while bringing them out into the open. The best cure is not hiding it from others.
