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        Irreversible Noise

        Irreversible Noise

        Irreversible Noise

        by Inigo Wilkins

        ISBN: 9780995455030

        Publisher: Urbanomic

        Pub Date: October 10, 2023

        A detailed critical examination of the concept of noise, its significance in scientific disciplines, and its use and misuse in the humanities and sonic arts.
        The Science-Music Borderlands

        The Science-Music Borderlands

        The Science-Music Borderlands

        Reckoning with the Past and Imagining the Future

        Edited by Elizabeth H. Margulis, Psyche Loui and Deirdre Loughridge

        ISBN: 9780262047647

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 2, 2023

        Interdisciplinary essays on music psychology that integrate scientific, humanistic, and artistic ways of knowing in transformative ways.
        Whale Music

        Whale Music

        Whale Music

        Thousand Mile Songs in a Sea of Sound

        by David Rothenberg

        Foreword by Scott McVay

        ISBN: 9781949597257

        Publisher: Terra Nova Press

        Pub Date: February 21, 2023

        The marvelous sonic world of whales, from the perspective of music and science.
        Sounding Bodies

        Sounding Bodies

        Sounding Bodies

        Music and the Making of Biomedical Science

        by Peter Pesic

        ISBN: 9780262046350

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 11, 2022

        The unfolding influence of music and sound on the fundamental structure of the biomedical sciences, from ancient times to the present.
        Of Sound Mind

        Of Sound Mind

        Of Sound Mind

        How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World

        by Nina Kraus

        ISBN: 9780262545075

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 27, 2022

        How sound leaves a fundamental imprint on who we are.
        Music and the Making of Modern Science

        Music and the Making of Modern Science

        Music and the Making of Modern Science

        by Peter Pesic

        ISBN: 9780262543903

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 13, 2022

        A wide-ranging exploration of how music has influenced science through the ages, from fifteenth-century cosmology to twentieth-century string theory.
        Echo

        Echo

        Echo

        by Amit Pinchevski

        ISBN: 9780262543408

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 10, 2022

        An exploration of echo not as simple repetition but as an agent of creative possibilities.
        Stereophonica

        Stereophonica

        Stereophonica

        Sound and Space in Science, Technology, and the Arts

        by Gascia Ouzounian

        ISBN: 9780262044783

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 16, 2021

        Episodes in the transformation of our understanding of sound and space, from binaural listening in the nineteenth century to contemporary sound art.
        Studying Sound

        Studying Sound

        Studying Sound

        A Theory and Practice of Sound Design

        by KC Collins

        ISBN: 9780262044134

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 1, 2020

        An introduction to the concepts and principles of sound design practice, with more than 175 exercises that teach readers to put theory into practice.
        The Origins of Musicality

        The Origins of Musicality

        The Origins of Musicality

        Edited by Henkjan Honing

        ISBN: 9780262538510

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 20, 2019

        Interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, appreciate, and make music.
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