The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World Author: Trevor Cox | Language: English | ISBN:
0393239799 | Format: PDF
The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World Description
A tour of the world’s most amazing acoustic phenomena that reveals how sound works in everyday life.
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. 35 illustrations
- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (February 10, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0393239799
- ISBN-13: 978-0393239799
- Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Interesting to learn how musical instruments reverberate, as explanations for some of the great sonic spaces in nature and man made. I will now listen to everything differently, and as a result, hear my surroundings differently.
By H. R. Drackett
(From NPR) 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.
Fascinating interview with an exceptionally sharp man who shares with us the sounds around us. I took one star off because there is no sound DVD included with the book.
By Over the River
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