READING LIST

Sound Studies Readers

Bull, Michael, and Les Back, eds. The Auditory Culture Reader. 2nd ed. London - New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. 

Cox, Christoph, and Daniel Warner, eds. Audio Culture. Readings in Modern Music. New York: Continuum, 2004. 

Daniels, Dieter, and Sandra Naumann, eds. See This Sound: Audiovisuology: A Reader. Köln: Walther König, 2015. 

Groth, Sanne Krogh, et al. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020 

Schröder, Julia H., and Volker Straebel, eds. Sound Studies and Sonic Arts Reader. Hofheim: Wolke, 2022. 

Sterne, Jonathan. The Audible Past. Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. Durham, London: Duke University Press, 2003. 

Weibel, Peter, ed. Sound art: sound as a medium of art. Cambridge, Mass: Mit Press, 2019 

Theory

Carson, Anne. “The Gender of Sound.” In Glass, Irony, and God, 119-142. New York: New Directions Books, 1995 

Chude-Sokei, Louis Onuorah. The Sound of Culture : Diaspora and Black Technopoetics. Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, 2016. 

Dolar, Mladen. A Voice and Nothing More. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006. 

Eckhardt, Julia, et al. The Second Sound - Conversations on Gender and Music. Brussels : Umland, 2017. 

Eidsheim, Nina Sun. The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2019 

Eshun, Kodwo. More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction. Quartet Books, 1999 

Goodman, Steve. Sonic Warfare : Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear. Cambridge, Mass. u.a. : MIT Press, 2012. 

Kahn, Douglas. Noise, Water, Meat. A History of Sound in the Arts. Cambridge - London: The MIT Press, 1999. 

Kane, Brian. Sound Unseen. Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2014. 

Kim-Cohen, Seth. In the Blink of an Ear. Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art. New York - London: Continuum, 2009. 

Licht, Alan. Sound Art Revisited. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. 

Nyman, Michael. Experimental Music - Cage and Beyond. Second Edition. Cambridge University Press, 1999. 

Ouzounian, Gascia. Stereophonica : Sound and Space in Science, Technology, and the Arts. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2020. 

Robinson, Dylan. Hungry Listening. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020 

Sterne, Jonathan. The Audible Past. Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. Durham, London: Duke University Press, 2003. 

Stoever, Jennifer Lynn. “The Sonic Color Line : Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening.” 2016. 

*Thoben, Jan: For the Record. Thoughts on Medium Specificity in the Sonic Arts 

eContact! 20.3, 2020, econtact.ca/20_3/thoben_specificity.html  

*Thoben, Jan: Video, Sound and Synthesis, in: Dieter Daniels and Jan Thoben (Ed.), Video Theories - A Transdisciplinary Reader, NY: Bloomsbury Academic 2022, 247-260. 

Thompson, Marie. Beyond Unwanted Sound: Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017 

*Voegelin, Salomé. Listening to Noise and Silence. Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art. New York - London: Continuum, 2010. 

*Voegelin, Salomé. Sonic Possible Worlds : Hearing the Continuum of Sound. 2014. 

*Voegelin, Salomé. The Political Possibility of Sound : Fragments of Listening. 2019.

Sound Studies and Sonic Arts Journals

Organised Sound, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/organised-sound 

Computer Music Journal, http://computermusicjournal.org/ 

Artistic Research

Born, Georgina. Rationalizing Culture : IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde. Berkeley, Calif. u.a. : Univ. of California Press, 1995. 

Born, Georgina, et al. Western Music and Its Others : Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music. Berkeley u.a. : Univ. of Calif. Press, 2000. 

Brown, Deforrest. Assembling a Black Counter Culture. Brooklyn, N.Y. : Primary Information, 2022. 

Groth, Sanne Krogh. Politics and Aesthetics in Electronic Music : A Study of EMS - Elektronmusikstudion Stockholm, 1964 - 1979. 2014. 

Novak, David, et al. Keywords in Sound. 2015. 

Michael Biggs and Henrik Karlsson (eds.). The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts. Rutledge, Abingdon, 2010 

Journal for Artistic Research, http://www.jar-online.net/ 

Ruukku. Studies in Artistic Research, http://ruukku-journal.fi/

Artistic Practice

Amacher, Maryanne, et al. Selected Writings and Interviews. Brooklyn, NY: Blank Forms Editions, 2020.  

Biserna, Elena, ed. Going out - Walking, Listening, Sound Making. Le Presses du Réel, 2022 

Cimini, Amy. Wild Sound : Maryanne Amacher and the Tenses of Audible Life. New York : Oxford University Press, 2022. 

F. Bueti, A. Alampi, B. Ndikung (eds), We Have Delivered Ourselves from the Tonal — Of, Towards, On, For Julius Eastman. Savy Books 

Holmes, Thomas. Electronic and Experimental Music. Pioneers in Technology and Composition [1985]. 2 ed. New York [etc.]: Routledge, 2002. 

Jowitt, Deborah, et al. Meredith Monk. Baltimore, Md. u.a. : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1997. 

Julius, Rolf. Small Music (Grau). Edited by Bernd Schulz and Hans Gercke. Heidelberg: Kehrer, 1995. 

Klein, Georg. borderlines. Edited by Sabine Sanio. With texts by Claudia Wahjudi, Max Glauner, Sabine Sanio, Stefan Fricke. Dt.-engl., Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2014. 

*Kubisch, Christina. KlangRaumLichtZeit. Arbeiten von 1980 bis 2000. Aust. Kat. Opel-Villen Rüsselsheim. Edited by Kulturamt der Stadt Rüsselheim. Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2000. 

*Kuhn, Hans Peter. Licht und Klang. Edited by Bernd Schulz. Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2000. 

LaBelle, Brandon. Background Noise. Perspectives on Sound Art. New York - London: Continuum, 2007. 

Lewis, George. A Power Stronger than Itself : The AACM and American Experimental Music. Chicago, Ill. u.a. : Univ. of Chicago Press, 2008. 

Licht, Alan. Sound Art. Beyond Music, Between Categories. New York: Rizzoli, 2007. 

Lucier, Alvin. Reflections. Interviews, Scores, Writings 1965-1994 / Reflexionen. Interviews, Notationen, Texte 1965-1994 [1995]. Edited by Gisela Gronemeyer and Reinhard Oehlschlägel. 2 ed. Köln: MusikTexte, 2005. 

Lucier, Alvin, ed. Eight lectures on experimental music. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2017 

Marranca, Bonnie. Conversations with Meredith Monk. PAJ Publications, 2014 

Motte-Haber, Helga de la, and Akademie der Künste Berlin, eds. Klangkunst. Katalog Sonambiente, Festival für Hören und Sehen. München: Prestel, 1996. 

Neuhaus, Max. Sound Works. Ostfildern: Cantz, 1994. 

Oliveros, Pauline, et al. Sounding the Margins : Collected Writings 1992 - 2009. Kingston, N.Y. : Deep Listening Publications, 2010. 

Oliveros, Pauline. Software for People : Collected Writings 1963-80. Kingston, NY : Pauline Oliveros Publications, 2015. 

Oliveros, Pauline, Laurie Anderson, et al. Quantum Listening. London : Ignota Books, 2022. 

Oram, Daphne. An Individual Note of Music, Sounds and Electronics. Wakefield : Anomie Publishing, 2016. 

Listening

Blatter, Alfred. Revisiting music theory. Basic principles. 2 ed. New York: Routledge, 2017. 

Corey, Jason. Audio Production and Critical Listening: Technical Ear Training. New York - London: Focal Press, 2010. 

Fastl, Hugo, and Eberhard Zwicker. Psychoacoustics. Facts and Models. 3 ed. Berlin - New York: Springer, 2007. 

Toole, Floyed. Sound Reproduction: Loudspeakers and Rooms. Amsterdam - Boston: Elsevier (Focal Press), 2008. 

Roberts, Gareth E. From music to mathematics. Exploring the connections. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. 

Roederer, J. G., H. J. Weitbrecht, J. Glatzel, and H. Rieger. The physics and psychophysics of music: an introduction. 4 ed. New York: Springer, 2008. 

Temperley, David. The Cognition of Basic Musical Structures. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. 

Truax, Barry. Acoustic Communication. 2 ed. Westport, CT / London: Ablex, 2001. 

White, Sylvia. Music as organized sound. An introduction to basic music theory. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1999. 

Audio Technology

Ballou, Glen M., ed. Handbook for Sound Engineers. Oxford: Focal Press, 2015. 

*Döbereiner. Luc. Models of Constructed Sound: Nonstandard Synthesis as an Aesthetic Perspective. Computer Music Journal, MIT Press Journals, 2011. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/COMJ_a_00067  

Giri, Maurizio. Cipriani, Alessandro. Electronic Music and Sound Design - Theory and Practice Volume 1. Contemponet, 2010. 

Giri, Maurizio. Cipriani, Alessandro. Electronic Music and Sound Design - Theory and Practice Volume 2. Contemponet, 2014. 

Katz, Robert A. Mastering Audio : The Art and the Science. Oxford u.a. : Focal Press, 2002. 

Lubin, Tom. Getting Great Sounds: The Microphone Book. 2019 

Newell, Phillip. Keith Holland. Loudspeakers: For Music Recording and Reproduction. Routledge 2019 

Nierhaus, Gerhard. “Algorithmic Composition : Paradigms of Automated Music Generation.” Wien u.a. : Springer, 2009. 

Roads, Curtis. The Computer Music Tutorial. MIT Press, 1996. 

Roads, Curtis. Microsound. MIT Press, 2002.  

Toole, Floyed. Sound Reproduction: Loudspeakers and Rooms. Amsterdam - Boston: Elsevier (Focal Press), 2008. 

Wishart, Trevor. On Sonic Art. Routledge, 1996. 

Wishart, Trevor. Audible Design: A Plain and Easy Introduction to Sound Composition. Orpheus The Pantomime Ltd., 1994. 

Woram, John M. The Recording Studio Handbook. Sigamore Publishing Company, 1976 

Xenakis, Iannis. Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition. Special issue of La Revue musicale, nos. 253–254. Paris: Editions Richard-Masse. 1963.