Books by Nina Kraus
“It’s a work by a neuroscientist, written for the general public. She highlights some great starting points for somebody approaching this field. One of them is the extraordinary resolution and speed with which we hear. Auditory neurons, the cells in the brain that are processing sound from the ears, make calculations within one thousandths of a second. And this gives us the ability to discriminate—to get a resolution on sound much greater than we have with images. Our brains are just extraordinary at processing sound. That’s just a starting point—one way to think about the miracle of hearing.” Read more...
Caspar Henderson, Journalist
Interviews where books by Nina Kraus 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.
