Recommended Readings

Eddie Breitweiser

The Music of Elliott Carter by David Schiff – a thorough historical and theoretical account of Carter’s music (up to the early ’80s, when the book was published) and emphasizes his remarkable ability to use musical resources to attempt to solve broader artistic issues.

Kim Walker

The Everyday: Documents of Contemporary Art, edited by Stephen Johnstone - Art has commemorated ordinary dignity, celebrated the accidentally miraculous, explored new forms of ethnography or immersion in mass culture, and mediated on what happens when nothing happens. This anthology surveys the everyday’s central significance for art since the 1950′s.

Lou Mallozzi

Listening and Voice: Phenomenologies of Sound, by Don Ihde

Wireless Imagination, ed. by Douglas Kahn and Gregory Whitehead

Phantasmic Radio, by Allen Weiss

In The Blink of an Ear, by Seth Kim-Cohen

Text Sound Texts, ed. by Richard Kostelanetz

Noise Design, by Bjorn Hellstrom

Shapes for Sounds, by Timothy Donaldson

Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language, by Daniel Heller-Roazen

Orality and Literacy, by Walter J. Ong

Audio-Vision, by Michel Chion

Sound Theory Sound Practice, ed. by Rick Altman

On the Way to Language, by Martin Heidegger