Background Noise. Perspective on Sound Art by Brandon LaBelle. 2006
Background Noise follows the development of sound as an artistic medium and illustrates how sound is put to use within modes of composition, installation, architecture, environments, and the specifics of location into the work of sound, with the aim of...
Varieties of Audio Mimesis by Allen S. Weiss. 2008 (Errant Bodies Press)
Varieties of Audio Mimesis is many things: an investigation of the metaphoric relationships between music and landscape, a study of the poetics of onomatopoeia, and a theory of sound in the arts. The history of European musicology is perennially revised...