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Trevor Cox is on a hunt for the sonic wonders of the world. A renowned expert who engineers classrooms and concert halls, Cox has made a career of eradicating bizarre and unwanted sounds. But after an epiphany in the London sewers, Cox now revels in exotic noises-creaking glaciers, whispering galleries, stalactite organs, musical roads, humming dunes, seals that sound like alien angels, and a Mayan pyramid that chirps like a bird. With forays into archaeology, neuroscience, biology, and design, Cox explains how sound is made and altered by the environment, how our body reacts to peculiar noises, and how these mysterious wonders illuminate sound's surprising dynamics in everyday settings-from your bedroom to the opera house. The Sound Book encourages us to become better listeners in a world dominated by the visual and to open our ears to the glorious cacophony all around us.
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An intriguing tour d'horizon of the world of sound.
A riveting ear-opener, Trevor Cox describes in lyrical detail a range of sonic events and new ways of listening that can only brighten our experience of the acoustic world around us. A must-read for sound-lovers of all stripes. --Bernie Krause, author of The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places"
Cox reminds us not only of the sonic marvels we often miss, but also how those sounds affect us. "
This small encyclopedia of strange sounds reveals how much art there is in the act of listening. Reading it made my ears more mindful. --Adam Gopnik"
An intriguing tour d horizon of the world of sound. "
Turns up the volume on sonic oddities. "
[A] mission to make sound tourism the next big thing. --Gemma Tarlach"
From its first page to its last, The Sound Book invites readers to close their eyes and open their ears to the sounds, both normal and peculiar, that surround us all. "
A technological travelogue conducted by an expert tour guide, bursting with aural arcana that adds just the right amount of tech-savvy detail, The Sound Book brings into relief a world often obscured in our image-heavy existence. Even as we follow Cox to the ends of the Earth, what makes his book a real rush is that it's ultimately an ear-buzzing journey to the center of our minds. --Greg Milner, Perfecting Sound Forever"
Bursting with aural arcana that adds just the right amount of tech-savvy detail, The Sound Book brings into relief a world often obscured in our image-heavy existence. Even as we follow Cox to the ends of the Earth, what makes his book a real rush is that it''''''''s ultimately an ear-buzzing journey to the center of our minds. --Greg Milner, Perfecting Sound Forever"
About the Author:
A riveting ear-opener, Trevor Cox describes in lyrical detail a range of sonic events and new ways of listening that can only brighten our experience of the acoustic world around us. A must-read for sound-lovers of all stripes. --Bernie Krause, author of The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places"
Cox reminds us not only of the sonic marvels we often miss, but also how those sounds affect us. "
This small encyclopedia of strange sounds reveals how much art there is in the act of listening. Reading it made my ears more mindful. --Adam Gopnik"
An intriguing tour d horizon of the world of sound. "
Turns up the volume on sonic oddities. "
[A] mission to make sound tourism the next big thing. --Gemma Tarlach"
From its first page to its last, The Sound Book invites readers to close their eyes and open their ears to the sounds, both normal and peculiar, that surround us all. "
A technological travelogue conducted by an expert tour guide, bursting with aural arcana that adds just the right amount of tech-savvy detail, The Sound Book brings into relief a world often obscured in our image-heavy existence. Even as we follow Cox to the ends of the Earth, what makes his book a real rush is that it's ultimately an ear-buzzing journey to the center of our minds. --Greg Milner, Perfecting Sound Forever"
Bursting with aural arcana that adds just the right amount of tech-savvy detail, The Sound Book brings into relief a world often obscured in our image-heavy existence. Even as we follow Cox to the ends of the Earth, what makes his book a real rush is that it''''''''s ultimately an ear-buzzing journey to the center of our minds. --Greg Milner, Perfecting Sound Forever"
A professor of acoustic engineering, Trevor Cox has appeared on the Discovery and National Geographic channels, produced seventeen BBC radio documentaries, and holds the Guinness Record for discovering the world's "Longest Echo." He lives in Manchester, England.
Jonathan Cowley is a British actor whose recording of The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart earned him an AudioFile Earphones Award. He has narrated many audiobooks as well as film trailers and documentaries on both sides of the Atlantic.
Jonathan Cowley is a British actor whose recording of The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart earned him an AudioFile Earphones Award. He has narrated many audiobooks as well as film trailers and documentaries on both sides of the Atlantic.
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- PublisherTantor Media Inc
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1494501457
- ISBN 13 9781494501457
- BindingAudio CD
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