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Book Sound Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thom Holmes
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2022-04-27
  • ISBN : 1317224825
  • Pages : 135 pages

Download or read book Sound Art written by Thom Holmes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-27 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sound Art offers the first comprehensive introduction to sound art written for undergraduate students. Bridging and blending aspects of the visual and sonic arts, modern sound art first emerged in the early 20th century and has grown into a thriving and varied field. In 13 thematic chapters, this book enables students to clearly grasp both the concepts behind this unique area of art, and its history and practice. Each chapter begins with an exploration of key ideas and theories, followed by an in-depth discussion of selected relevant works, both classic and current. Drawing on a broad, diverse range of examples, and firmly interdisciplinary, this book will be essential reading for anyone studying or teaching the theory, history, appreciation, or practice of sound art.

Book Touchable Sound

Download or read book Touchable Sound written by Brian Roettinger and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images and anecdotes representing 7-inch record packaging for the past 25 years.

Book Sound Synthesis and Sampling

Download or read book Sound Synthesis and Sampling written by Martin Russ and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sound Synthesis and Sampling' provides a comprehensive introduction to the underlying principles and practical techniques applied to both commercial and research sound synthesizers. This new edition has been updated throughout to reflect current needs and practices- revised and placed in a modern context, providing a guide to the theory of sound and sampling in the context of software and hardware that enables sound making. For the revised edition emphasis is on expanding explanations of software and computers, new sections include techniques for making sound physically, sections within analog and digital electronics. Martin Russ is well known and the book praised for its highly readable and non-mathematical approach making the subject accessible to readers starting out on computer music courses or those working in a studio.

Book The Music of Theology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew Hass
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2024-02-01
  • ISBN : 1003852246
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book The Music of Theology written by Andrew Hass and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconceives theology as a musical endeavour in critical tension with language, space and silence. An Overture first moves us from music to religion, and then from theology back to music – a circularity that, drawing upon history, sociology, phenomenology, and philosophy, disclaims any theology of music and instead pursues the music in theology. The chapters that follow explore the three central themes by way of theory, music and myth: Adorno, Benjamin and Deleuze (language), Derrida, Rosa and Nancy (space), Schelling/Hegel, Homer and Cage (silence). In overdubbing each other, these chapters work towards theology as a sonorous rhythm between loss and freedom. A Coda provides three brief musical examples – Thomas Tallis, György Ligeti, and Evan Parker – as manifestations of this rhythm, to show in summary how music becomes the very pulse of theology, and theology the very intuition of music. The authors offer an interdisciplinary engagement addressing fundamental questions of the self and the other, of humanity and the divine, in a deconstruction of modern culture and of its bias towards the eye over the ear. The book harmonizes three scholarly voices who attempt to find where the resonance of our Western conceptions and practice, musically and theologically, might resound anew as a more expansive music of theology.

Book Sound Media

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lars Nyre
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2009-06-02
  • ISBN : 1135253773
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Sound Media written by Lars Nyre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sound Media considers how music recording, radio broadcasting and muzak influence people's daily lives and introduces the many and varied creative techniques that have developed in music and journalism throughout the twentieth century. Lars Nyre starts with the contemporary cultures of sound media, and works back to the archaic soundscapes of the 1870s. The first part of the book devotes five chapters to contemporary digital media, and presents the internet, the personal computer, digital radio (news and talk) and various types of loudspeaker media (muzak, DJ-ing, clubbing and PA systems). The second part examines the historical accumulation of techniques and sounds in sound media, and presents multitrack music in the 1960s, the golden age of radio in the 1950s and back to the 1930s, microphone recording of music in the 1930s, the experimental phase of wireless radio in the 1910s and 1900s, and the invention of the gramophone and phonograph in the late nineteenth century. Sound Media includes a soundtrack on downloadable resources with thirty-six examples from broadcasting and music recording in Europe and the USA, from Edith Piaf to Sarah Cox, and is richly illustrated with figures, timelines and technical drawings.

Book Affliction

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  • Author : Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2013-07-02
  • ISBN : 1101623896
  • Pages : 609 pages

Download or read book Affliction written by Laurell K. Hamilton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Micah’s estranged father lies dying, rotting away inside from some strange ailment that has his doctors whispering about “zombie disease.” Anita Blake makes her living off of zombies—but these aren’t the kind she knows so well. These creatures hunt in daylight, and are as fast and strong as vampires. If they bite you, you become just like them. And round and round it goes…Where will it stop? Even Anita Blake doesn’t know.

Book Still Life

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  • Author : Elisha Cohn
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2015-11-02
  • ISBN : 0190250054
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Still Life written by Elisha Cohn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still Life: Suspended Development in the Victorian Novel rethinks the nineteenth-century aesthetics of agency through the Victorian novel's fascination with states of reverie, trance, and sleep. These states challenge contemporary scientific and philosophical accounts of the perfectibility of the self, which privileged reflective self-awareness. In dialogue with the field of literature and science studies and affect studies, this book shows how Victorian writers used narrative form to respond to the analytical practices and knowledge production of those other disciplines. Drawing upon canonical texts--by Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, George Meredith, and Thomas Hardy--Still Life contends that depictions of non-purposive perceptual experience suspend the processes of self-cultivation (Bildung) central to Victorian aesthetics, science, psychology, and political theory, as well as most critical accounts of the novel form. Departing from the values of individual cultivation and moral revelation associated with the genre, these writers offer an affective framework for understanding the subtly non-instrumental powers of narrative. Victorian novels ostensibly working within the parameters of the Bildungsroman are suspended by moments of "still life": a decentered lyricism associated with states of diminished consciousness. They use this style to narrate what should be unnarratable: experiences not dependent on reflective consciousness, which express a distinctive ambivalence toward dominant developmental frameworks of individual self-culture.

Book Synesthetic Design

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  • Author : Michael Haverkamp
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
  • Release : 2012-12-21
  • ISBN : 3034611684
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book Synesthetic Design written by Michael Haverkamp and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-12-21 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synesthetic design strives to develop products that systematically incorporate all five senses. In future, the current wealth of medical technical insights in psychology, physiology, motor functions, and neurology and the development of innovative materials with astonishing new properties will open up almost unlimited opportunities for the designer’s creativity. Haverkamp brings together for the first time precisely those aspects of this fundamental knowledge that are specifically relevant for designers. The result is a book that offers designers of all schools a clear and well-organized practical handbook and a solid foundation for their own designs.

Book Home Music Production

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  • Author : Stephan Earl
  • Publisher : SearlStudio Publishing
  • Release : 2012-09-28
  • ISBN : 0988367009
  • Pages : 122 pages

Download or read book Home Music Production written by Stephan Earl and published by SearlStudio Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete how-to guide for setting up a home recording studio. Get the right computer, music production hardware and software for your needs without wasting time and money on gear that won't work for you.

Book Danse Macabre

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  • Author : Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780425207970
  • Pages : 502 pages

Download or read book Danse Macabre written by Laurell K. Hamilton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anita Blake is worried that her careers as a Federal Marshal who raises the dead and as a vampire executioner may be jeopardized when she realizes that she may be pregnant--and the father could be a vampire, a werewolf, or someone else entirely. 300,000 first printing.

Book The Music Effect

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  • Author : Daniel J. Schneck
  • Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
  • Release : 2005-12-15
  • ISBN : 1846424623
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book The Music Effect written by Daniel J. Schneck and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music is well known to have a significant effect on physiology and is widely used as an effective therapeutic tool in stress and pain management, rehabilitation, and behavior modification, but its effects are not well understood. This book explains what 'music' is, how it is processed by and affects the body, and how it can be applied in a range of physiological and psychological conditions. Rhythm, melody, timbre, harmony, dynamics, and form, and their effects on the body are explored in detail, helping practitioners create effective therapy interventions that complement other treatment systems. Case studies and evidence from research and practice show how music therapy can benefit people with autistic spectrum disorders, Down syndrome, schizophrenia, and sensory difficulties, among other conditions. The Music Effect is an essential resource for music therapists, clinicians, educators and anyone with an interest in holistic therapy.

Book Fitzwilliam Darcy  Rock Star

Download or read book Fitzwilliam Darcy Rock Star written by Heather Lynn Rigaud and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darcy's as hot as he is talented... Fast music, powerful beats, and wild reputations-on and off stage-have made virtuoso guitarist Fitzwilliam Darcy's band into rock's newest bad boys. But they've lost their latest opening act, and their red-hot summer tour is on the fast track to disaster. Now Darcy and bandmates Charles Bingley and Richard Fitzwilliam are about to meet their match... But she's about to rock his world... Enter Elizabeth Bennet, fiercely independent star of girl-band Long Borne Suffering. Elizabeth, her sister Jane, and friend Charlotte Lucas have talent to spare and jump at the opening band slot. Elizabeth is sure she's seen the worst the music industry has to offer. But as the days and nights heat up, it becomes clear that everyone is in for a summer to remember. What readers say: "An amazing writer... a magical ride." "An absolutely wonderful, funny, sexy, realistic, beautifully written story." "Thank you for the wild, touching, raunchy, sweet, sexy, witty, intelligent, down-and-dirty ride." "Amazing characters and absolutely fascinating plot! I'm still breathless after reading it."

Book Introduction to Christian Ethics

Download or read book Introduction to Christian Ethics written by Ellen Ott Marshall and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Christians read the Bible differently, pray differently, value their traditions differently, and give different weight to individual and corporate judgment. These differences are the basis of conflict. The question Christian ethics must answer, then, is, "What does the good life look like in the context of conflict?" In this new introductory text, Ellen Ott Marshall uses the inevitable reality of difference to center and organize her exploration of the system of Christian morality. What can we learn from Jesus' creative use of conflict in situations that were especially attuned to questions of power? What does the image of God look like when we are trying to recognize the divine image within those with whom we are in conflict? How can we better explore and understand the complicated work of reconciliation and justice? This innovative approach to Christian ethics will benefit a new generation of students who wish to engage the perennial questions of what constitutes a faithful Christian life and a just society.

Book Summary of Chris Payne s Where Are Your Boys Tonight

Download or read book Summary of Chris Payne s Where Are Your Boys Tonight written by Milkyway Media and published by Milkyway Media. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the Summary of Chris Payne's Where Are Your Boys Tonight in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Where Are Your Boys Tonight" by Chris Payne chronicles the evolution of the emo and punk music scenes through the experiences of various bands and industry figures. The book delves into the personal and professional lives of artists from bands like My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, and Paramore, among others. It captures the rise to fame, the challenges of maintaining success, and the impact of the music on fans and culture...

Book Borrowed Words

Download or read book Borrowed Words written by Philip Durkin and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-01-24 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich variety of the English vocabulary reflects the vast number of words it has taken from other languages. These range from Latin, Greek, Scandinavian, Celtic, French, Italian, Spanish, and Russian to, among others, Hebrew, Maori, Malay, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, andYiddish. Philip Durkin's full and accessible history reveals how, when, and why. He shows how to discover the origins of loanwords, when and why they were adopted, and what happens to them once they have been. The long documented history of English includes contact with languages in a variety of contexts, including: the dissemination of Christian culture in Latin in Anglo-Saxon England, and the interactions of French, Latin, Scandinavian, Celtic, and English during the Middle Ages; exposure to languages throughout the world during the colonial era; and the effects of using English as an international language of science. Philip Durkin describes these and other historical inputs, introducing the approaches each requires, from the comparative method for the earliest period to documentary and corpus research in the modern. The discussion is illustrated at every point with examples taken from a variety of different sources. The framework Dr Durkin develops can be used to explore lexical borrowing in any language. This outstanding book is for everyone interested in English etymology and in loanwords more generally. It will appeal to a wide general public and at the same time offers a valuable reference for scholars and students of the history of English.

Book Reinventing Music Video

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matt Hanson
  • Publisher : Gulf Professional Publishing
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780240808345
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Reinventing Music Video written by Matt Hanson and published by Gulf Professional Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique title; no current showcase of the best contemporary music videos exists, despite the area being a popular, flourishing hub of creative activity. If you want to succeed in this area, you need this book! Reinventing Music Videos provides a showcase of the best of the next generation of international music video directors, who are creating work for best-selling and cutting-edge music artists. The up and coming are contrasted with an icons of the genre' section on big name music video directors such as Chris Cunningham and Spike Jonze to give the complete overview of this area. Stunning visuals dominate the book, along with questions and answers with the creators, and their sketches, treatments, and test visuals. This is an invaluable reference guide, a source of inspiration and process with an exploration of the underlying technologies and techniques alongside the showcase for everyone working in music videos and those wanting to get into this highly sought after genre of filmmaking. * This is an invaluable, high-profile resource on a hot button area of filmmaking with insider information not available elsewhere * Contains visuals from high-profile, internationally best-selling music artists * Learn from a renowned authority on alternate' moving image