The Alchemy Of Noise

Author : Lorraine Devon Wilke
Publisher : She Writes Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781631525605

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The Alchemy of Noise by Lorraine Devon Wilke Pdf

2019 Readers' Favorite Awards Gold Medal Winner in Fiction (Literary) 2019 Best Book Awards Finalist in Fiction (Literary) 2019 International Book Awards, Finalist, Fiction (Multicultural) 2020 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Fiction Finalist in Multicultural 2019 Foreword Indie Finalist in Adult Fiction: Multicultural 2019 Nautilus Book Awards Silver Winner in Fiction “Infused with beauty, humor, and pain, The Alchemy of Noise is a modern American love story that asks if love can bridge the distance between two Americas.” —Laura Nicole Diamond, author of Shelter Us and Deliver Me In a world so full of lonely people and broken hearts, Chris Hawkins, a black sound engineer from Chicago’s south side, and Sidonie Frame—white, suburban-raised, the head manager of one of the city’s most elite venues—meet by work-related happenstance and fall quickly in love, convinced that by that act alone they can inspire peace, joy, and happiness in the world around them. The world, however, has other ideas. Their meeting is serendipitous. Chris, who owns and runs his company, largely spends his time surrounded by members of his own community; Sidonie, conversely, is rarely outside the environs of work and its predominantly white staff and clientele. But when the club’s sound manager goes AWOL on the night of a big event and Chris is hired to come in as a last-minute replacement, their destinies collide. Immediately drawn to each other, they fall quickly into an unexpected and thrilling relationship, inspiring myriad reactions amongst family and friends on both sides of the racial divide. But even as their love story evolves, day-to-day tensions, police disruptions, and the microaggressions Chris constantly encounters as a black man in the gritty environs of Chicago become a cultural flashpoint, challenging Sidonie’s privileged worldview and Chris’s ability to translate the unfolding events. After a random and gut-wrenching series of police encounters shakes their resilience, it’s the shattering circumstance of a violent arrest—one in which Chris is identified as a serial vandal and potential rapist—that sends their world into free fall. He claims his innocence; she believes him. But the forces pushing against them are many and oppressive. With a looming trial, the dissipating loyalties of key allies, and unforeseen twists triggering doubt and suspicion, Sidonie and Chris are driven to question what they really know of each other and just whom to trust, leading to a powerful and emotional conclusion. Lorraine Devon Wilke’s third novel, The Alchemy of Noise, ventures beyond the humor and pathos of family drama explored so cleverly in her first two novels to dig deep into the politics of contemporary culture. At its heart a love story, it explores the complexity of race in a suspenseful drama driven by issues of privilege, prejudice, police profiling and legal entanglements, and the disparities in how those provocative themes impact the various and diverse characters involved.

Author : Steven Bruns,Ofer Ben-Amots,Michael D. Grace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Composers
ISBN : UOM:39015063333945

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George Crumb & the Alchemy of Sound by Steven Bruns,Ofer Ben-Amots,Michael D. Grace Pdf

Author : Stewart Pearce
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781844093625

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The Alchemy of Voice by Stewart Pearce Pdf

Offering straightforward and highly effective techniques to those seeking personal healing, this manual provides ways in which the power of people's voices can improve and enhance their lives. Identifying sound as the center of creation and an individual’s unique signature note—the song of the soul—that unifies the mind, body, and spirit, this important tome urges readers to rediscover this inner sound and move onto the path of healing and the hope of creative fulfillment. Exercises to achieve peace and harmony, boost self-confidence, and add color and passion to self-expression help seekers reach their potent, powerful, and most importantly, their personal sound.

Author : Robert Viagas
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476849485

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The Alchemy of Theatre - The Divine Science by Robert Viagas Pdf

(Applause Books). Featuring 28 of the top talents on Broadway! The Alchemy of Theatre lets the top talents in every theatrical field, from producing and writing to publicity and makeup, share their hard-earned wisdom. They speak on how to achieve success in an environment where giant egos are locked up together under mounting financial and emotional pressure, and are expected to deliver greatness. In short, this book is a how-to manual of collaboration by the professionals who do it best. Among those who have packed their lively essays with real-world stories of experience on legendary productions are directors Harold Prince, Susan Stroman, and George C. Wolfe; playwrights Wendy Wasserstein, recently deceased, and Edward Albee; stars Chita Rivera and Brian Stokes Mitchell; set designer Robin Wagner; songwriter Cy Coleman, in one of his last writing efforts before his death; costume designer William Ivey Long; producer Rocco Landesman; theatre operator Gerald Schoenfeld, chairman of The Shubert Organization; playwright and librettist Terrence McNally; lighting designers Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer; Musical Director Paul Gemignani; and more than a dozen more. This book is nothing but true-life stories of how these precepts work in real life for some of the most talented people alive. "Every narrative gives an inside look at what makes theater magical and allows a performance to come together. For those who love the theater, this book is essential." Library Journal

Author : David Novak
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780822353928

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Japanoise by David Novak Pdf

Drawing on more than a decade of research in Japan and the United States, David Novak traces the "cultural feedback" that generates and sustains Noise, an underground music genre combining distortion and electronic effects.

Author : Astral Shadow Publishing
Publisher : Astral Shadow Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Sound Healing for Beginners by Astral Shadow Publishing Pdf

If you want to know how to easily use sound healing to elevate your body, mind, & spirit, but don't know where to start, keep reading. Modern life is filled with stress & anxiety. Unhealthy lifestyles are leading to misplaced emotions, chakra misalignment & blocked meridians. This can lead to physical & mental illnesses. If you're experiencing painful emotions such as jealousy, bitterness, or resentment, this will impact your electromagnetic field at the mental & sensory levels, causing a disturbance within the body & manifesting physical symptoms. On top of this, our modern way of life in noisy cities has caused us to implicitly accept sound pollution as part of our lives. Because of the constant onslaught of noise pollution in our technological culture, our ears can now only hear within a narrow frequency spectrum. Our inability to discriminate what we choose to listen to is having a rapid impact on hearing. A few years ago, the water at Japan's Fujiwara Dam was polluted, & authorities couldn't figure out how to decontaminate it. Somebody suggested having a priest bless the water. The priest chanted a sutra over it, & what followed left even skeptics in awe. The water cleared on its own & became safe to use! When coupled with sound, intention can transform the world. If sound can have that much power over a body of water, then take a second to imagine what it could do for you. You'll discover: The brain waves to target for maximum restoration that no one is talking about An impressive understanding of the mysticism of sound throughout history & cultures Powerful listening methods to skyrocket your level of calm & presence The three new chakra-charging frequencies that so many are not taking advantage of Outrageously effective chakra-clearing exercises you can easily do from literally anywhere The easy way to speed up emotional releases that could aid IBS, UTIs, & bowel disorders Expert singing bowl knowledge to make sure you're targeting the desired chakra Yin & Yang meridian mastery & how TCM can elevate your sound healing practice The endless benefits to understanding the connection between emotions & organs Why you may be suffering from sadness, grief, stress, & more What might be causing premature greying of hair The exact frequencies you must know to target specific organs, & therefore, specific emotions & conditions The tiny tool you can use to alleviate chronic pain, hypersensitivity of the nervous system, insomnia, chronic stress, headaches & migraines, digestive issues, & joint pain The way to activate your autonomic nervous system that no one is talking about The secret message neuroplasticity approach to rewire your brain & attract your dreams *BONUS* Access to a wealth of online resources including video courses, meditations, journal downloads, & so much more! Sound healing isn't reserved for spiritual gurus. Anyone can start reaping the never-ending benefits right now. All it takes is an open mind & willingness to learn. Imagine how your body, mind, & spirit will feel once you cleanse yourself of energetic baggage that no longer serves you, & unblock your chakras & meridians. What would you do with your life if you had unlimited access to this incredible healing power? So, if you want to easily use the wonders of ancient sound healing techniques to maximize your well-being, then click buy now.

Author : Astral Shadow Publishing
Publisher : Astral Shadow Publishing
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-14
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Somatic Trauma Therapy & Sound Healing 2-in-1 Value Collection by Astral Shadow Publishing Pdf

Have you been suffering in mind & body, & can’t seem to get to the bottom of it? It could be that you need somatic and sound healing techniques. Talk therapies can be great for working out painful memories, traumas, & feelings, but they often forget to acknowledge a major component: the mind is only part of what makes up the body. In many cases, our society has separated symptoms of chronic illness from the root cause: trauma. This means that we are often only putting bandaids on surface symptoms. You’ll encounter the truth to: Why something as small as insults can compound & affect you as much as a monstrous traumatic event The exact frequencies you must know to target specific organs, & therefore, specific emotions & conditions The tiny tool you can use to alleviate chronic pain, hypersensitivity of the nervous system, insomnia, chronic stress, headaches and migraines, digestive issues, & joint pain. The forgotten element that could be subtracting decades from your life expectancy The endless benefits to understanding the connection between emotions & organs Why everyone else is getting mindfulness wrong & the more potent way to approach it The amazing anatomical breathing centers that no one seems to be paying attention to The secret message neuroplasticity approach to rewire your brain & attract your dreams & a whole lot more. Imagine how your body, mind, & spirit will feel once you cleanse yourself of energetic baggage that no longer serves you, & unblock your chakras & meridians. What would you do with your life if you had unlimited access to this incredible healing power? So if you want to know how to skyrocket your well-being in a new, easy, & exciting way, then turn the first page.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780578050393

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Hydrolith by Anonim Pdf

Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Art. Music. This book brings together in one volume some of the most exciting recent work from the international surrealist movement. With over 80 contributors from 17 countries around the world, the book contains drawings, paintings, games, comics, photographs, poetry, prose, theoretical and political writings on a huge variety of subjects, including special in-depth investigations of music, space and myth. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in the surrealist movement today.

Author : Stephen Graham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501378676

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Becoming Noise Music by Stephen Graham Pdf

Becoming Noise Music tells the story of noise music in its first 50 years, using a focus on the music's sound and aesthetics to do so. Part One focuses on the emergence and stabilization of noise music across the 1980s and 1990s, whilst Part Two explores noise in the twenty-first century. Each chapter contextualizes – tells the story – of the music under discussion before describing and interpreting its sound and aesthetic. Stephen Graham uses the idea of 'becoming' to capture the unresolved 'dialectical' tension between 'noise' disorder and 'musical' order in the music itself; the experiences listeners often have in response; and the overarching 'story' or 'becoming' of the genre that has taken place in this first fifty or so years. The book therefore doubles up on becoming: it is about both the becoming it identifies in, and the larger, genre-making process of the becoming of, noise music. On the latter count, it is the first scholarly book to focus in such depth and breadth on the sound and story of noise music, as opposed to contextual questions of politics, history or sociology. Relevant to both musicology and noise audiences, Becoming Noise Music investigates a vital but analytically underexplored area of avant-garde musical practice.

Author : Jason Whittaker,Elizabeth Potter
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783030924621

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Bodies, Noise and Power in Industrial Music by Jason Whittaker,Elizabeth Potter Pdf

This edited collection delves into the industrial music genre, exploring the importance of music in (sub)cultural identity formation, and the impact of technology on the production of music. With its roots as early as the 1970s, industrial music emerged as a harsh, transgressive, and radically charged genre. The soundscape of the industrial is intense and powerful, adorned with taboo images, and thematically concerned with authority and control. Elemental to the genre is critical engagement with configurations of the body and related power. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this collection analyses the treatment of subjects like the Body (animal, human, machine), Noise (rhythmic, harsh) and Power (authority, institutions, law) in a variety of industrial music’s elements. Throughout the collection, these three subjects are interrogated by examining lyrics, aesthetics, music videos, song writing, performance and audience reception. The chapters have been carefully selected to produce a diverse and intersectional perspective, including work on Black industrial musicians and Arabic and North African women’s collaborations. Rather than providing historical context, the contributors interpret the finer elements of the aesthetics and discourses around physical bodies and power as expressed in the genre, expanding the ‘industrial’ boundary and broadening the focus beyond white European industrial music.

Author : John Melillo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501359927

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The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk by John Melillo Pdf

By reinterpreting 20th-century poetry as a listening to and writing through noise, The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk constructs a literary history of noise through poetic sound and performance. This book traces how poets figure noise in the disfiguration of poetic voice. Materializing in the threshold between the heard and the unheard, noise emerges in the differentiation and otherness of sound. It arises in the folding of an “outside” into the “inside” of poetic performance both on and off the page. Through a series of case studies ranging from verse by ear-witnesses to the First World War, Dadaist provocations, jazz modernist song and poetry, early New York City punk rock, contemporary sound poetry, and noise music, The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk describes productive failures of communication that theorize listening against the grain of sound's sense.

Author : Richard Bernstein
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780471735922

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Navigate the Noise by Richard Bernstein Pdf

Transform today's surplus of investment information into a high-level investment strategy In an investment climate characterized by rapidly increasing access to information, it has become a real problem to sort out the legitimate financial advice, grounded in traditional analysis, from the constant stream of useless information, or "noise." Such "noise", through technological advances such as the Internet, has become widespread. This overload of information is hurting investors, since it makes real analysis based on factual inference harder to come by. This book steers investors through the "noise" to show them where and how to find solid investment information. This step-by-step guide is based on a very popular presentation the author makes to new private clients at Merrill Lynch. Richard Bernstein (New York, NY) is First Vice President and Chief Quantitative Strategist at Merrill Lynch & Company. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, he worked for E. F. Hutton and Tucker Anthony. He has been voted to the Institutional Investor All-America Research Team in each of the last eight years, and has appeared on Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser.

Author : Douglas Kahn
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780262311625

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Noise, Water, Meat by Douglas Kahn Pdf

An examination of the role of sound in twentieth-century arts. This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it—to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence, the fluid sounds of immersion and dripping, and the meat voices of viruses, screams, and bestial cries. Focusing on Europe in the first half of the century and the United States in the postwar years, Douglas Kahn explores aural activities in literature, music, visual arts, theater, and film. Placing aurality at the center of the history of the arts, he revisits key artistic questions, listening to the sounds that drown out the politics and poetics that generated them. Artists discussed include Antonin Artaud, George Brecht, William Burroughs, John Cage, Sergei Eisenstein, Fluxus, Allan Kaprow, Michael McClure, Yoko Ono, Jackson Pollock, Luigi Russolo, and Dziga Vertov.

Author : Lyall Watson
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780143526889

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Elephantoms by Lyall Watson Pdf

As a child in South Africa, spending summers exploring the wild with his boyhood friends, Lyall Watson came face to face with his first elephant. From that moment on, Watson's fascination grew into a lifelong obsession with understanding the nature and behaviour of this impressive creature. Around the world, the elephant - at once a symbol of spiritual power and physical endurance - has been worshipped as a god and hunted for sport. In this captivating portrait of the elephant, Watson draws from scientific research, anthropological studies, and personal experience to document the animal's wide-ranging capabilities to remember and to mourn; and he reminds us of its rich mythic origins, its evolution, and its devastation in recent history. Part meditation on an elusive animal, part evocation of the power of place, Elephantoms presents an alluring mix of the mysteries of nature and the wonders of childhood.

Author : Alan Shockley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442281882

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The Contemporary Piano by Alan Shockley Pdf

With Contemporary Piano: A Performer and Composer’s Guide to Techniques and Resources, Alan Shockley provides a comprehensive resource for composers writing music that uses extended techniques for the piano, and for pianists interested in playing repertoire that makes use of techniques and/or implements unfamiliar to them. Shockley explains dozens of ways to prepare a piano without damaging the instrument, how to notate every standard technique and many, many obscure ones, and the specific geographies of every common concert hall piano. This will be the standard reference for pianists touring and playing inside-the-piano repertoire, and for composers at all levels of familiarity with the piano hoping to understand the mechanical miracle that is the modern piano.