ARGONAUT BOOKS

In prehistoric caves, drummers used natural acoustics to recreate natural sound. In classical Europe, orators turned the human voice into a lyrical instrument. And in Buddhist temples, the icons' ears were exaggerated to represent their spiritual power. In a narrative history of the subject which puts humans at its centre, David Hendy reveals the six different ages of sound and what it was like to live through them. Reviews As social history it's hard to beatIndependentDavid Hendy reconstructs the acoustic environments of our ancestors and contemporaries in words, conjur...Read More