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Sonic Experience

A Guide to Everyday Sounds

Jean-François Augoyard author Henri Torgue author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press

Published:5th Apr '06

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An alphabetical sourcebook of eighty sonic/auditory effects. This book features accounts of sonic effects that integrate information about the physical spaces in which sounds occur with cultural contexts and auditory experience. It attempts to rehabilitate acoustic awareness, combining definitions and literary examples with technical information.This brilliant book on the effects of sound on listeners is itself a stimulating listening experience, says composer R. Murray Schafer.

"Reading this book is like a stimulating listening experience: I found myself measuring the effects of sounds heard, overheard, or imagined." R. Murray Schafer, composer and author of The Tuning of the World

ISBN: 9780773525481

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 580g

230 pages