Books by Karen Bakker
“This does what it says on the tin. It’s a book about how new technology is opening up vast new areas of understanding. Karen Bakker is not an acoustic ecologist herself, but she’s an academic and an excellent writer, and it’s a very lively read that brings us back to the work of Bernie Krause and the rich field flourishing in the wake of his work and others’.” Read more...
Caspar Henderson, Journalist
Interviews where books by Karen Bakker were recommended
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The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places
by Bernie Krause -
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Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World
by Nina Kraus -
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The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth
by Michael Spitzer -
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Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend
by Thomas Mann, translated by John E. Woods -
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The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants
by Karen Bakker
The best books on Sound, recommended by Caspar Henderson
The best books on Sound, recommended by Caspar Henderson
Sound encodes incredible amounts of information—not only words, music, and other audible forms of communication, but complex spatial data too. Caspar Henderson, author of the ‘auraculous’ new essay collection The Book of Noises, selects five of the best books on sound, from the buzzing of bees to the ghostly whisper of the aurora.
