{"title":"Lawrence Kramer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLawrence Kramer\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the profound relationship between sound, music, and human experience in his thought-provoking works. Readers can expect insightful reflections on how music shapes our understanding of the world and the forms of life it accompanies, blending cultural analysis with philosophical inquiry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom immersive studies on auditory perception to broader discussions on arts and culture, Kramer's writing invites readers to engage deeply with the hum of everyday life through the lens of sound. His books offer a rich, nuanced perspective for anyone interested in the intersections of music, society, and meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"experiencing-sound-by-lawrence-kramer-9780520400849","title":"Experiencing Sound","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the winds of Mars to a baby's first laugh, a prolific philosopher-composer reflects on the profound imperative of sound in everyday life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExperiencing Sound\u003c\/em\u003e presents its subject as fundamental to all experience—sensation, perception, and understanding. Lawrence Kramer turns on its head the widespread notion that vision takes pride of place among the senses and demonstrates how paying attention to sound can transform how we make meaning out of experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough a series of brief, lyrical forays, Kramer shows that sound, whether heard or unheard, is the object of a primary need and an essential component in the sensation of being alive and the perception of time. It is something that we may suffer—or be made to suffer—as well as enjoy. Like its predecessor, \u003cem\u003eThe Hum of the World\u003c\/em\u003e, this book ranges widely across music, philosophy, literature, art, media, and history, from classical antiquity to the present, as it invites us to experience sound anew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430669336812,"sku":"9780520400849","price":52.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780520400849.jpg?v=1774558780"},{"product_id":"music-and-the-forms-of-life-by-lawrence-kramer-9780520389106","title":"Music and the Forms of Life","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInventors in the age of the Enlightenment created lifelike androids capable of playing music on real instruments. \u003cem\u003eMusic and the Forms of Life\u003c\/em\u003e examines the link between such simulated life and music, which began in the era's scientific literature and extended into a series of famous musical works by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMusic invented auditory metaphors for the scientific elements of life (drive, pulse, sensibility, irritability, even metabolism), investigated the affinities and antagonisms between life and mechanism, and explored questions of whether and how mechanisms can come to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe resulting changes in the conceptions of both life and music had wide cultural resonance at the time, and those concepts continued to evolve long after. A critical part of that evolution was a nineteenth-century shift in focus from moving androids to the projection of life in motion, culminating in the invention of cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWeaving together cultural and musical practices, Lawrence Kramer traces these developments through a collection of case studies ranging from classical symphonies to modernist projections of waltzing specters by Mahler and Ravel to a novel linking Bach's \u003cem\u003eGoldberg Variations\u003c\/em\u003e to the genetic code.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47431693140204,"sku":"9780520389106","price":180.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780520389106.jpg?v=1774557388"},{"product_id":"the-hum-of-the-world-by-lawrence-kramer-9780520303492","title":"The Hum of the World","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Hum of the World\u003c\/em\u003e is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it. Balancing big ideas, playful wit, and lyrical prose, this imaginative volume identifies the role of sound in Western experience as the primary medium in which the presence and persistence of life acquires tangible form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe positive experience of aliveness is not merely in accord with sound, but inaccessible, even inconceivable, without it. Lawrence Kramer’s poetic book roves freely over music, media, language, philosophy, and science from the ancient world to the present. Along the way, it reveals how life is apprehended through sounds ranging from pandemonium to the faint background hum of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis warm meditation on auditory culture uncovers the knowledge and pleasure waiting when we learn that the world is alive with sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464358248684,"sku":"9780520303492","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780520303492-the-hum-of-the-world.jpg?v=1775048112"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/lawrence-kramer.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}