A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous Henderson Caspar
A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous Henderson Caspar A wide-ranging exploration of the sounds that shape our world in invisible yet significant ways.The crackling of a campfire. The first glug…
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A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous Henderson Caspar
A wide-ranging exploration of the sounds that shape our world in invisible yet significant ways.The crackling of a campfire. The first glug of wine as it is poured from a bottle. The scratch, hiss, and pop of a vinyl record.
In A Book of Noises, Henderson invites readers to use their ears a little better--to tune in to the world in all its surprising noisiness.Gathering sounds from around the natural and human world, the forty-eight essays comprising A Book of Noises are a celebration of all things "auraculous." Henderson calls on his characteristic curiosity to explore sounds related to humans (anthropophony), other life (biophony), the planet (geophony), and space (cosmophony). These are just a few of writer Caspar Henderson's favorite sounds. Henderson finds the beauty in everyday sounds, like the ringing of a bell, the buzz of a bee, or the "earworm"