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  • How the World Listens

    The Human Relationship with Sound across the World

    by Tom A. Garner ...
    Series series Sound Design
    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 asks how sound is perceived, expressed and interacted with in both remarkably similar and dramatically different ways ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Echoes of Other Worlds: Sound in Virtual Reality

    Past, Present and Future

    by Tom A. Garner ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the nature and importance of sound in virtual reality (VR). Approaching the subject from a holistic perspective, the book delivers an emergent framework of VR sound. This framework brings together numerous elements that collectively determine the nature of sound in VR; from various aspects of VR technology, to the physiological and psychological complexities of the user, to the ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

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    How the World Listens

    The Human Relationship with Sound across the World

    by Tom A. Garner ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 47 min

    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 asks how sound is perceived, expressed, and interacted with in both remarkably similar and dramatically different ways ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    by Erin Manning, Brian Massumi ...
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