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Last update 18 March 2004.

Deep Listening

Beck, Guy. 1993. Sonic theology: Hinduism and Sacred Sound. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press.

Bull, M. & L. Back, eds. 2003. The Auditory Culture Reader. Sensory Formations Series. Oxford/New York: Berg.

Cage, J.  1961.  Silence; lectures and writings.  Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan University Press.

Feldman, M. 2000.  Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman.  Cambridge, MA: Exact Change.

Hirschkind, C. Essay in Lambek, A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion on Muslim Cassette Sermon Audition in Cairo.

Oliveros, P. 1984.  Software for People: Collected Writings 1963-80.  Baltimore: Smith Publications.

Rothenberg, D. 2002. Sudden Music: Improvisation, Sound, Nature. University of Georgia Press.

Rothenberg, D and M. Ulvaeus, eds. 2001.  The Book of Music and Nature: An Anthology of Sounds, Words, Thoughts.  Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press.

Sterne, J.. 2003. The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. Durham, NC: Duke U.P.


Soundscape Studies

Järviluoma, H, and G. Wagstaff.Soundscape Studies and Methods. Helsinki: Finnish Society for Ethnomusicology Publ. 9. University of Turku Department of Art, Literature and Music, Series A 51.

Shafer, R. M. 1977. The Tuning of the World New York: Knopf.

Shafer, R. M. ed. 1979. The Vancouver Soundscape. Music of the Environment Series #2. Vancouver: A.R.C. Publications.

Thompson, E. 2002. The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933. MIT Press.

Truax, B. 2001. Acoustic Communication. Stamford, Connecticut: Ablex Publishing.

Truax, B, ed. 1978 [1999, CD-ROM]. Handbook for Acoustic Ecology. Vancouver: A.R.C. Publications.

Wagstaff, G. 1999. "What is Acoustic Ecology's 'Ecology'?" in The New Soundscape Newsletter. 9, July. World Forum for Acoustic Ecology.


Sound Art

Bandt, R. 2001. Sound Sculpture. (Oz artists)

South Bank Centre. 2000. Sonic Boom: the Art of Sound. (English exhibition catalogue)

see also D. Toop, D. Kahn.

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