> [!warning] > who knows if there will be time for all. But here's a list of sound books that i'd like to read — i'll keep updating it :) ## Acoustics & Psychoacoustics - **Leo Beranek, Tim Mellow** — *Acoustics: Sound Fields, Transducers and Vibration* (2019) - **Lawrence E. Kinsler, Austin R. Frey, Alan B. Coppens, James V. Sanders** — *Fundamentals of Acoustics* (1999) - **Arthur H. Benade** — *Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics* (2019) - **Timothy Leighton** — *The Acoustic Bubble* (1994) - **William M. Hartmann** — *Signals, Sound and Sensation* (2004) - **John R. Pierce** — *The Science of Musical Sound* (1983) - **Georg Von Békésy** — *Experiments in Hearing* (1960) - **Perry R. Cook** — *Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound: An Introduction to Psychoacoustics* (2001) - **Julius O. Smith III** — *Physical Audio Signal Processing: for Virtual Musical Instruments and Digital Audio Effects* (2010) - **Thomas D. Rossing, Neville H. Fletcher** — *Principles of Vibration and Sound* (2004) - **Anthony French** — *Vibrations and Waves* (2017) ## Sound Art, Perception & Listening - **Pierre Jolivet** — *Sound Art and Sensorial Perception: A Practice-Based Study* (2022) - **Jean-François Augoyard & Henry Torgue** — *Sonic Experience: A Guide to Everyday Sounds* (2014) - **Christoph Cox** — *Sonic Flux: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics* (2018) - **Sam Belinfante, Joseph Kohlmaier** — *The Listening Reader* (2016) - **Michael Bull & Les Back** — *The Auditory Culture Reader* (2015) - **Frances Dyson** — *The Tone of Our Times: Sound, Sense, Economy, and Ecology* (2014) - **Murray Schaffer** - The Soundscape (1977) ## Film, Media & The Voice - **Michel Chion** — *Film, A Sound Art* (2009) - **Michel Chion** — *Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen* (2019) - **Michel Chion** — *The Voice in Cinema* (1999) - **Michel Chion** — *Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise* (2016) - **Michael Chion** — *David Lynch* (1995) - **Mladen Dolar** — *A Voice and Nothing More* (2006) - **Alejandra Bronfman** — *Isles of Noise: Sonic Media in the Caribbean* (2016) - **Alejandra Bronfman & Andrew Grant Wood** — *Media, Sound, and Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean* (2012) ## Music, Sound Design & Digital Audio - **Will C. Pirkle** — *Designing Audio Effect Plugins in C++* (2013) - **Dave Benson** — *Music: A Mathematical Offering* (2007) - **Nina Sun Eidsheim** — *Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice* (2015) - **Nina Sun Eidsheim** — *The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music* (2019) - **Mark C. van Tongeren** — *Overtone Singing: Physics and Metaphysics of Harmonies in East and West* (2002) - **Dennis Palumbo** - *Writing from the Inside Out* ## Classics & Foundational Texts - **Hermann Helmholtz** — *On the Sensations of Tone* (1954) - **J.W.S. Rayleigh** — *The Theory of Sound* (1945) - **John William Strutt Baron Rayleigh, Robert Bruce Lindsay** — *The Theory of Sound, Vol 2* (1945) - **John Cage** — *Silence: Lectures and Writings* (1994) ## Space, Architecture & Acoustics - **Barry Blesser & Linda-Ruth Salter** — *Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?* (2006) - **Tyler Adams** — *Sound Materials: A Compendium of Sound Absorbing Materials for Architecture and Design* (2016) - **Martha Brech** — *Der Hörbare Raum: Entdeckung, Erforschung und musikalische Gestaltung mit analoger Technologie* (2015) - **Linda C. Eneix, Michael W. Ragussa** — *Archaeoacoustics III: The Archaeology of Sound* - **Nathanja Van Dijk, Kerstin Ergenzinger, Christian Kassung, Sebastian Schwesinger** — *Navigating Noise* (2017) ## Philosophy, Science & Mathematics of Sound - **Robert Lawlor** — *Sacred Geometry: Philosophy & Practice* (1982) - **Karen L. French** — *The Hidden Geometry of Life: The Science and Spirituality of Nature* (1996) - **Alfred S. Posamentier, Ingmar Lehmann** — *The Fabulous Fibonacci Numbers* (2007) - **Stefan Hildebrandt, Anthony Tromba** — *The Parsimonious Universe: Shape and Form in the Natural World* (1996) - **Theodor Schwenk** — *Sensitive Chaos* (2008) - **Gerald H. Pollack** — *The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor* (2013) - **György Doczi** — *The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art and Architecture* (2005) ## Miscellaneous & Historical Perspectives - **Nikola Tesla, Ben Johnston** — *My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla* (1995) - **Philip Beesley & Sascha Hastings** — *LASG Symposium 2019 Proceedings* (2019) - **Philip Beesley, Sascha Hastings & Sarah Bonnemaison** — *White Papers* (2019) - **Sarah Bonnemaison** — *Resurgence of Organicism* (2019) - **Jean-Yves Bosseur** — *Sound and the Visual Arts: Intersections Between Music and Plastic Arts Today* (1993) - **Gilles Aubrey** — *The Amplification of Souls* (2014)