Haunted Weather

Author : David Toop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015046298595

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Haunted Weather by David Toop Pdf

Digital technology has changed the ways in which music is perceived, stored, distributed, mediated and created. The world of music is now a vast and complex jungle, teeming with CDs, MP3s, concerts, clubs, festivals, conferences, exhibitions, installations, websites, software programmes, scenes, ideas and competing theories. In the eye of the storm stands David Toop, shedding light on the most interesting music now being made ? on laptops, in downtown bars in Tokyo, wherever he finds it. Haunted Weather is part personal memoir and part travel journal, as well as an intensive survey of recent developments in digital technology, sonic theory and musical practice. Along the way Toop probes into the meaning of sound (and silence), offering fascinating insights into how computers can be used for improvisation. His wealth of musical knowledge provides inspiration for anyone interested in music.

Author : David Toop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Computers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114166411

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Haunted Weather by David Toop Pdf

Digital technology has changed the ways in which music is perceived, stored, distributed, mediated and created. The world of music is now a vast and complex jungle, teeming with CDs, MP3s, concerts, clubs, festivals, conferences, exhibitions, installations, websites, software programmes, scenes, ideas and competing theories. In the eye of the storm stands David Toop, shedding light on the most interesting music now being made ? on laptops, in downtown bars in Tokyo, wherever he finds it. Haunted Weather is part personal memoir and part travel journal, as well as an intensive survey of recent developments in digital technology, sonic theory and musical practice. Along the way Toop probes into the meaning of sound (and silence), offering fascinating insights into how computers can be used for improvisation. His wealth of musical knowledge provides inspiration for anyone interested in music.

Author : Jenny Offill
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345806901

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Weather by Jenny Offill Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation comes a “darkly funny and urgent” (NPR) tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis. Lizzie works in the library of a university where she was once a promising graduate student. Her side hustle is answering the letters that come in to Hell and High Water, the doom-laden podcast hosted by her former mentor. At first it suits her, this chance to practice her other calling as an unofficial shrink—she has always played this role to her divorced mother and brother recovering from addiction—but soon Lizzie finds herself struggling to strike the obligatory note of hope in her responses. The reassuring rhythms of her life as a wife and mother begin to falter as her obsession with disaster psychology and people preparing for the end of the world grows. A marvelous feat of compression, a mix of great feeling and wry humor, Weather is an electrifying encounter with one of the most gifted writers at work today.

Author : Shanon Sinn
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781771512442

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The Haunting of Vancouver Island by Shanon Sinn Pdf

A compelling investigation into supernatural events and local lore on Vancouver Island. Vancouver Island is known worldwide for its arresting natural beauty, but those who live here know that it is also imbued with a palpable supernatural energy. Researcher Shanon Sinn found his curiosity piqued by stories of mysterious sightings on the island—ghosts, sasquatches, sea serpents—but he was disappointed in the sensational and sometimes disrespectful way they were being retold or revised. Acting on his desire to transform these stories from unsubstantiated gossip to thoroughly researched accounts, Sinn uncovered fascinating details, identified historical inconsistencies, and now retells these encounters as accurately as possible. Investigating 25 spellbinding tales that wind their way from the south end of the island to the north, Sinn explored hauntings in cities, in the forest, and on isolated logging roads. In addition to visiting castles, inns, and cemeteries, he followed the trail of spirits glimpsed on mountaintops, beaches, and water, and visited Heriot Bay Inn on Quadra Island and the Schooner Restaurant in Tofino to personally scrutinize reports of hauntings. Featuring First Nations stories from each of the three Indigenous groups who call Vancouver Island home—the Coast Salish, the Nuu-chah-nulth, and the Kwakwaka’wakw—the book includes an interview with Hereditary Chief James Swan of Ahousaht.

Author : John Robert Colombo
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996-09-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781459726529

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Haunted Toronto by John Robert Colombo Pdf

Unearthing Toronto's spectral and paranormal secrets, Haunted Toronto takes readers to sixty-six ghostly sites, from haunted stairwells in Queen's Park to otherworldly presences on the Toronto Islands. Fans of the supernatural will love this richly-illustrated guide to walking and driving tours of the city's spooky side.

Author : Ann Pancake
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781582439914

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Strange as This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake Pdf

A West Virginia family struggles amid the booms and busts of the Appalachian coal industry in this “powerful, sure-footed, and haunting” novel with echoes of John Steinbeck (New York Times Book Review). Set in present day West Virginia, this debut novel tells the story of a coal mining family—a couple and their four children—living through the latest mining boom and dealing with the mountaintop removal and strip mining that is ruining what is left of their hometown. As the mine turns the mountains “to slag and wastewater,” workers struggle with layoffs and children find adventure in the blasted moonscape craters. Strange as This Weather Has Been follows several members of the family, with a particular focus on fifteen–year–old Bant and her mother, Lace. Working at a motel, Bant becomes involved with a young miner while her mother contemplates joining the fight against the mining companies. As domestic conflicts escalate at home, the children are pushed more and more frequently outside among junk from the floods and felled trees in the hollows—the only nature they have ever known. But Bant has other memories and is as curious and strong–willed as her mother, and ultimately comes to discover the very real threat of destruction that looms as much in the landscape as it does at home.

Author : Joan Holub
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780399545368

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Groundhog Weather School by Joan Holub Pdf

Welcome to Groundhog Weather School! Ever wonder where Groundhog Day first began? Want to know the reason why we have different weather seasons? Curious about how some plants and animals can help predict the weather? Learn the answers to these questions and many more at Groundhog Weather School! This clever story—starring a cast of lovable groundhog characters—is a fresh, informative, and fun look at Groundhog Day through the eyes of the animals who are the stars of it each year.

Author : Michael Ramseur
Publisher : ARTSHIP
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780976597506

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Haunted Palace by Michael Ramseur Pdf

12 chapters: history from 1880's to closing, experimental therapies and brain research, family and personal memoirs, artists' work, interviews with ex-patients and ex-staff, original literature

Author : Miriama Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317054856

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Singing the Body Electric: The Human Voice and Sound Technology by Miriama Young Pdf

Singing the Body Electric explores the relationship between the human voice and technology, offering startling insights into the ways in which technological mediation affects our understanding of the voice, and more generally, the human body. From the phonautograph to magnetic tape and now to digital sampling, Miriama Young visits particular musical and literary works that define a century-and-a-half of recorded sound. She discusses the way in which the human voice is captured, transformed or synthesised through technology. This includes the sampled voice, the mechanical voice, the technologically modified voice, the pliable voice of the digital era, and the phenomenon by which humans mimic the sounding traits of the machine. The book draws from key electro-vocal works spanning a range of genres - from Luciano Berio's Thema: Omaggio a Joyce to Radiohead, from Alvin Lucier's I Am Sitting in a Room, to Björk, and from Pierre Henry's Variations on a Door and a Sigh to Christian Marclay's Maria Callas. In essence, this book transcends time and musical style to reflect on the way in which the machine transforms our experience of the voice. The chapters are interpolated by conversations with five composers who work creatively with the voice and technology: Trevor Wishart, Katharine Norman, Paul Lansky, Eduardo Miranda and Bora Yoon. This book is an interdisciplinary enterprise that combines music aesthetics and musical analysis with literature and philosophy.

Author : Frank Cowper
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781771962605

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Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk by Frank Cowper Pdf

Reading a ghost story on Christmas Eve was once as much a part of traditional Christmas celebrations as turkey, eggnog, and Santa Claus. When he finds an abandoned duck punt on Christmas Eve, a hunter rows out into the marsh and comes across a shipwreck. He climbs aboard to explore—and finds himself trapped when a surge snaps the mooring line and his punt floats away. Sleep eludes him, and soon he discovers that he's not the only one trapped on the derelict ship.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research, and Environment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : North Carolina
ISBN : UCR:31210024955138

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Field Briefing on Tornado Prediction and Preparedness in the Carolinas During the Severe Weather of March 28, 1984 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research, and Environment Pdf

Author : Thomas Kingsley Troupe
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781631632174

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Trapped in Room 217 by Thomas Kingsley Troupe Pdf

Something is haunting Jayla Walters’ Colorado hotel room—Room 217 of the Stanley Hotel. A ghost visits her room every night. What does the ghost want? And what happens when Jayla gets in her way?

Author : Rosamond Lehmann
Publisher : Virago
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405526852

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The Weather In The Streets by Rosamond Lehmann Pdf

ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 'With brilliant dialogue and intense passages of elation and despair, The Weather in the Streets takes you on the rollercoaster of their relationship' ESTHER FREUD, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Lehmann legitimised a type of writing that took on deep personal themes' ENGLISH PEN 'The first writer to filter her stories through a woman's feelings & perceptions' ANITA BROOKNER Taking up where Invitation to the Waltz left off, The Weather in the Streets shows us Olivia Curtis ten years older, a failed marriage behind her, thinner, sadder, and apparently not much wiser. A chance encounter on a train with a man who enchanted her as a teenager leads to a forbidden love affair and a new world of secret meetings, brief phone calls and snatched liaisons in anonymous hotel rooms. Years ahead of its time when first published, this subtle and powerful novel shocked even the most stalwart Lehmann fans with its searing honesty and passionate portrayal of clandestine love. Books included in the VMC 40th anniversary series include: Frost in May by Antonia White; The Collected Stories of Grace Paley; Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault; The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter; The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann; Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith; The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Heartburn by Nora Ephron; The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy; Memento Mori by Muriel Spark; A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor; and Faces in the Water by Janet Frame.

Author : Richard Elliott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351567305

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Fado and the Place of Longing by Richard Elliott Pdf

Fado, often described as 'urban folk music', emerged from the streets of Lisbon in the mid-nineteenth century and went on to become Portugal's 'national' music during the twentieth. It is known for its strong emphasis on loss, memory and nostalgia within its song texts, which often refer to absent people and places. One of the main lyrical themes of fado is the city itself. Fado music has played a significant role in the interlacing of mythology, history, memory and regionalism in Portugal in the second half of the twentieth century. Richard Elliott considers the ways in which fado songs bear witness to the city of Lisbon, in relation to the construction and maintenance of the local. Elliott explores the ways in which fado acts as a cultural product reaffirming local identity via recourse to social memory and an imagined community, while also providing a distinctive cultural export for the dissemination of a 'remembered Portugal' on the global stage.

Author : Yvette Fielding
Publisher : Andersen Press Limited
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781787612204

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The House in the Woods by Yvette Fielding Pdf

Stranger Things meets Point Horror in the first of a brilliant new series for readers aged 11+ from Yvette Fielding, British television's first lady of the paranormal and presenter of Most Haunted. When Clovis, Eve and Tom decide to play with a ouija board in an old abandoned house on Halloween, none of them foresees the horrors they’re about to unleash. What starts out as a bit of fun, soon transcends into something far more terrifying when a distressed and determined spirit follows them home. Before long the friends are caught up in a series of events beyond their wildest imaginings and their journey as ghost hunters begins . . . 'When I grow up I wanna be a ghost hunter!' Keith Lemon 'If you’re reading this scary book in bed then it might be wise to leave the landing light on' Paul O’Grady 'I'm too scared to read this!' Matt Lucas