The Audible Past
Author | : Jonathan Sterne |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 2003-03-13 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780822330134 |
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Author | : Jonathan Sterne |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 2003-03-13 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780822330134 |
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Author | : Jonathan Sterne |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2012-07-17 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0822352877 |
Jonathan Sterne shows that understanding the historical meaning of the MP3, the world's most common format for recorded audio, involves rethinking the place of digital technologies in the broader universe of twentieth-century communication history.
Author | : Albin Zak |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2001-11-20 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0520232240 |
This title provides a fascinating exploration of recording consciousness and compositional process from the perspective of those who make records.
Author | : Francis Rumsey |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2012-09-10 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1136119906 |
Explores the principles and practical considerations of spatial sound recording and reproduction. Particular emphasis is given to the increasing importance of multichannel surround sound and 3D audio, including binaural approaches, without ignoring conventional stereo. The enhancement of spatial quality is arguably the only remaining hurdle to be overcome in pursuit of high quality sound reproduction. The rise of increasingly sophisticated spatial sound systems presents an enormous challenge to audio engineers, many of whom are confused by the possibilities and unfamiliar with standards, formats, track allocations, monitoring configurations and recording techniques. The author provides a comprehensive study of the current state of the art in spatial audio, concentrating on the most widely used approaches and configurations. Anyone wishing to expand their understanding of these cutting-edge technologies will want to own this book.
Author | : Jonathan Sterne |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2003-02-20 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780822384250 |
The Audible Past explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction. It describes a distinctive sound culture that gave birth to the sound recording and the transmission devices so ubiquitous in modern life. With an ear for the unexpected, scholar and musician Jonathan Sterne uses the technological and cultural precursors of telephony, phonography, and radio as an entry point into a history of sound in its own right. Sterne studies the constantly shifting boundary between phenomena organized as "sound" and "not sound." In The Audible Past, this history crisscrosses the liminal regions between bodies and machines, originals and copies, nature and culture, and life and death. Blending cultural studies and the history of communication technology, Sterne follows modern sound technologies back through a historical labyrinth. Along the way, he encounters capitalists and inventors, musicians and philosophers, embalmers and grave robbers, doctors and patients, deaf children and their teachers, professionals and hobbyists, folklorists and tribal singers. The Audible Past tracks the connections between the history of sound and the defining features of modernity: from developments in medicine, physics, and philosophy to the tumultuous shifts of industrial capitalism, colonialism, urbanization, modern technology, and the rise of a new middle class. A provocative history of sound, The Audible Past challenges theoretical commonplaces such as the philosophical privilege of the speaking subject, the visual bias in theories of modernity, and static descriptions of nature. It will interest those in cultural studies, media and communication studies, the new musicology, and the history of technology.
Author | : Francine Shapiro |
Publisher | : Rodale |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2013-03-26 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1609619951 |
A totally accessible user's guide from the creator of a scientifically proven form of psychotherapy that has successfully treated millions of people worldwide. Whether we've experienced small setbacks or major traumas, we are all influenced by memories and experiences we may not remember or don't fully understand. Getting Past Your Past offers practical procedures that demystify the human condition and empower readers looking to achieve real change. Shapiro, the creator of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), explains how our personalities develop and why we become trapped into feeling, believing and acting in ways that don't serve us. Through detailed examples and exercises readers will learn to understand themselves, and why the people in their lives act the way they do. Most importantly, readers will also learn techniques to improve their relationships, break through emotional barriers, overcome limitations and excel in ways taught to Olympic athletes, successful executives and performers. An easy conversational style, humor and fascinating real life stories make it simple to understand the brain science, why we get stuck in various ways and what to do about it. Don't let yourself be run by unconscious and automatic reactions. Read the reviews below from award winners, researchers, academics and best selling authors to learn how to take control of your life.
Author | : Christoph Cox |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2018-11-02 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 022654317X |
From Edison’s invention of the phonograph through contemporary field recording and sound installation, artists have become attracted to those domains against which music has always defined itself: noise, silence, and environmental sound. Christoph Cox argues that these developments in the sonic arts are not only aesthetically but also philosophically significant, revealing sound to be a continuous material flow to which human expressions contribute but which precedes and exceeds those expressions. Cox shows how, over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, philosophers and sonic artists have explored this “sonic flux.” Through the philosophical analysis of works by John Cage, Maryanne Amacher, Max Neuhaus, Christian Marclay, and many others, Sonic Flux contributes to the development of a materialist metaphysics and poses a challenge to the prevailing positions in cultural theory, proposing a realist and materialist aesthetics able to account not only for sonic art but for artistic production in general.
Author | : Scott Nickel |
Publisher | : Capstone Classroom |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781598891676 |
When David and Ben flunk their history test, they borrow David's brother's time travel machine to travel back in time so they can retake it, but end up playing with dinosaurs instead.
Author | : Sergei Savinov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2019-12-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781672317092 |
Max finds himself in a time loop. Any kind of death annuls everything except his present knowledge and returns him to the past. This is a good way to test all sorts of things. That is, it would be, if not for one little thing... This loop has real lords and it's unlikely that they'll be happy to hear about an uninvited guest.And that isn't his only problem -- all of his memories of the last year have simply disappeared, but the world around him has changed in the meantime. Earth has been seized by the Velly clan and is now part of their Star Empire. Max has also discovered his gift. He's a psychic.However, his power isn't that big of a deal.Everyone can be a level one "battery." To do anything else, however, you need to have some talent, money, and connections, which only complicates things further.A whole new world, great opportunities, and lots of chances to get into trouble... Welcome to the Last Time Loop!
Author | : Ben H. Winters |
Publisher | : Quirk Books |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2012-07-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1594745773 |
"[The] weird, beautiful, unapologetically apocalyptic Last Policeman trilogy is one of my favorite mystery series."—John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns Winner of the 2013 Edgar® Award Winner for Best Paperback Original! What’s the point in solving murders if we’re all going to die soon, anyway? Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. There’s no chance left. No hope. Just six precious months until impact. The Last Policeman presents a fascinating portrait of a pre-apocalyptic United States. The economy spirals downward while crops rot in the fields. Churches and synagogues are packed. People all over the world are walking off the job—but not Hank Palace. He’s investigating a death by hanging in a city that sees a dozen suicides every week—except this one feels suspicious, and Palace is the only cop who cares. The first in a trilogy, The Last Policeman offers a mystery set on the brink of an apocalypse. As Palace’s investigation plays out under the shadow of 2011GV1, we’re confronted by hard questions way beyond “whodunit.” What basis does civilization rest upon? What is life worth? What would any of us do, what would we really do, if our days were numbered? Ebook contains an excerpt from the anticipated second book in the trilogy, Countdown City.