Walther-Hansen, Mads - Making Sense of Recordings

The literature dealing with the auditory impact of studio-based practices and technologies on the listening experience is scattered and mainly comprises specialized articles inaccessible to most audio professionals and students. Making Sense of Recordings addresses this problem by offering a comprehensive account of sound quality in recorded music. The book presents analytical tools to evaluate recorded sound and describes how the listening experience is reflected, often metaphorically, in language.

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CONTENTS

Introduction: Making Sense of Recordings
Part 1. Foundations and Theory
1. Discourses of Recorded Sound: Technologies, Production, Listening, and Conceptualization
2: The Ontology of Recorded Sound
3: Sound Quality: Reasoning, Action, and Language
Part 2 - Encyclopedia
4: Conceptualizing Sound Quality: An Encyclopedia of Selected Sound Terminology
References
Index