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        Notes on the Third Ear / Phantom Lure

        Notes on the Third Ear / Phantom Lure

        Notes on the Third Ear / Phantom Lure

        by Steve Goodman and Angus Carlyle

        ISBN: 9781915103208

        Publisher: Urbanomic

        Pub Date: March 17, 2026

        Two original essays scrutinize the use of acoustic camouflage and the outer limits of unsound.
        Electronic Baroque

        Electronic Baroque

        Electronic Baroque

        Building a Historical Organ for the Present

        by Peter F. Peters

        ISBN: 9780262553636

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 26, 2025

        A fascinating, real-time ethnography of the building of a unique musical instrument with both mechanical and electronic components.
        Gear

        Gear

        Gear

        Cultures of Audio and Music Technologies

        by Eliot Bates and Samantha Bennett

        ISBN: 9780262551854

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 20, 2025

        A critical examination of the twenty-first century fetishization of professional audio technologies, and how it led to a new social formation: gear cultures.
        Building a Voice

        Building a Voice

        Building a Voice

        Sound, Surface, Skin

        by Zeynep Bulut

        ISBN: 9781913380885

        Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

        Pub Date: March 25, 2025

        On the emergence, embodiment, and mediation of voice as skin.
        Digital Signatures

        Digital Signatures

        Digital Signatures

        The Impact of Digitization on Popular Music Sound

        by Ragnhild Brøvig and Anne Danielsen

        ISBN: 9780262549639

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 31, 2023

        How sonically distinctive digital “signatures”—including reverb, glitches, and autotuning—affect the aesthetics of popular music, analyzed in works by Prince, Lady Gaga, and others.
        The Rhythmic Event

        The Rhythmic Event

        The Rhythmic Event

        Art, Media, and the Sonic

        by Eleni Ikoniadou

        ISBN: 9780262548878

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 15, 2023

        An investigation into the affective modes of perception, temporality, and experience enabled by experimental new media sonic art.
        Sound Actions

        Sound Actions

        Sound Actions

        Conceptualizing Musical Instruments

        by Alexander Refsum Jensenius

        ISBN: 9780262544634

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 13, 2022

        A techno-cognitive look at how new technologies are shaping the future of musicking.
        Sex Sounds

        Sex Sounds

        Sex Sounds

        Vectors of Difference in Electronic Music

        by Danielle Shlomit Sofer

        ISBN: 9780262045193

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: July 5, 2022

        An investigation of sexual themes in electronic music since the 1950s, with detailed case studies of “electrosexual music” by a wide range of creators.
        Inflamed Invisible

        Inflamed Invisible

        Inflamed Invisible

        Collected Writings on Art and Sound, 1976–2018

        by David Toop

        ISBN: 9781913380625

        Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

        Pub Date: January 25, 2022

        A rich collection of essays tracing the relationship between art and sound.
        Master of Voice

        Master of Voice

        Master of Voice

        Edited by Lisette Smits

        ISBN: 9783956795145

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: February 2, 2021

        A collection that looks at the role and use of the nonhuman voice in art.
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