The Perceptual Structure of Sound PDF This book presents a comprehensive review of how acoustic waves are processed by the auditory system into structured sounds such as musical melodies, speech utterances, or environmental sounds. After an introduction, an overview is given of how the ears distribute acoustic information over a large array of frequency channels that contain the… Read More »
The Music of Nobuo Uematsu in the Final Fantasy Series PDF Japanese musician and composer Nobuo Uematsu has built his career and reputation on his soundtracks to the enduring Final Fantasy video game series, which are notable for their remarkable cinematic feel. Today Uematsu is one of Japan’s most beloved living composers, credited with inspiring a new generation… Read More »
The Rhythm Image: Music Videos & New Audiovisual Forms PDF Music videos play a critical role in our age of ubiquitous streaming digital media. They project the personas and visions of musical artists; they stand at the cutting edge of developments in popular culture; and they fuse and revise multiple frames of reference, from dance to high fashion… Read More »
Voice Machines: The Castrato, the Cat Piano & Other Strange Sounds PDF An exploration of the castrato as a critical provocation to explore the relationships between sound, music, voice instrument, and machine. Italian courts and churches began employing castrato singers in the late sixteenth century. By the eighteenth century, the singers occupied a celebrity status on the operatic… Read More »
Music in Early Childhood: Exploring the Theories, Philosophies & Practices PDF Music in Early Childhood is an accessible and practical handbook, which introduces theories and pedagogical approaches for early childhood music education from birth to 8 years and explains their practical application. Understanding the theories and philosophies behind music education and how these translate into practice is the… Read More »
On Music Theory & Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone PDF Since its inception in the mid-twentieth century, American music theory has been framed and taught almost exclusively by white men. As a result, whiteness and maleness are woven into the fabric of the field, and BIPOC music theorists face enormous hurdles due to their racial identities. In… Read More »
Reimagining Sample-based Hip Hop: Making Records within Records PDF Reimagining Sample-based Hip Making Records within Records presents the poetics of hip-hop record production and the significance of sample material in record making, providing analysis of key releases in hip-hop discography and interviews with experts from the world of Hip Hop and beyond. Beginning with the history of hip-hop… Read More »
Mixing Audio: Concepts, Practices & Tools 4th Edition PDF Mixing Audio: Concepts, Practices, and Tools is a vital read for anyone wanting to succeed in the field of mixing—covering the entire mixing process, from fundamental concepts to advanced techniques. Packed full of photos, graphs, diagrams, and audio samples, it teaches the importance of a mixing vision, how to… Read More »
Classification of Musical Objects for Analysis & Composition PDF This book presents and discusses the fundamental topic of classification of musical objects, such as chords, motifs, and gestures. Their classification deals with the exhibition of isomorphism classes. Our structure types include local and global constructions, the latter being similar to global structures in geometry, such as differentiable manifolds.… Read More »
How the World Listens: The Human Relationship with Sound Across the World How the World Listens explores our everyday and professional interactions with sound. The book aims to uncover the human relationship with sound across the world and to reveal practical ways in which a better understanding of listening can help us in our daily lives. This book… Read More »
Listening to the Unconscious: Adventures in Popular Music & Psychoanalysis PDF What happens in our unconscious minds when we listen to, produce or perform popular music? The Unconscious – a much misunderstood concept from philosophy and psychology – works through human subjects as we produce music and can be traced through the music we engage with. Through a… Read More »
The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar Book2: Melodic Phrasing PDF Develop perfect phrasing in you blues guitar solos “He’s just feeling it” is no longer an acceptable explanation of musical ability. This book breaks down melodic feel and phrasing into learnable skills. Have you ever wondered how great blues guitar players develop such brilliant phrasing in their… Read More »
The Science of Music: How Technology has Shaped the Evolution of an Artform PDF Music is shaped by the science of sound. How can music – an artform – have anything to do with science? Yet there are myriad ways in which the two are intertwined, from the basics of music theory and the design of instruments to… Read More »
Logic Pro For Dummies 3 [PDF] This one-stop source for Logic Pro insight helps you spend more time creating music Every minute you spend trying to figure out how to set up a new track or build a drum loop is a minute you don’t spend creating and recording your music. This guide to the recording software favored… Read More »
Game Audio Fundamentals: An Introduction to the Theory, Planning, & Practice of Soundscape Creation for Games PDF Game Audio Fundamentals takes the reader on a journey through game audio design: from analog and digital audio basics to the art and execution of sound effects, soundtracks, and voice production, as well as learning how to make sense of a… Read More »