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    20,000 Leagues under the Sea153
    ABC (American Broadcasting Company)396
    “ability scripts” and cochlear implants323
    “Account of an Experiment Touching upon the Propagation of Sound Through Water,”155
    Ackerman, Diane304
    acoustemology15
      of blood flow305
    acoustic ecology7, 362
    acoustic images, capabilities for cognitive visual and spatial imaging415
    acoustic microscope research224–248
      bridging life science research and engineering research232
      extending perception by fusing different senses240
      illustration229
      life scientists’ reluctance to use new imaging technology and interpret new contrast mechanism241
      myxobacteria, cryogenic acoustic microscope image of243
      outputs, technology lending itself equally well to visual and auditory outputs225
      scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) as natural extension of acoustic microscopy243
      “seeing” acoustically233
    acoustic music, conversion to electronic music in American advertising398–399
    acoustic tags added to recordings188
    Acquaviva, John519
    ADAC Motorwelt97
    adaptive forms of music distribution in Hungary and Czechoslovakia during Communist era452
    adrenal excretion, effects of noise on286
    Advanced Bionics338
    Advanced Research Projects Agency236
    Advertising Age393
    The Adventures of Andre and Wally B377
    agricultural capitalism, early American industrialization43
    airplanes
      automobile sounds, aircraft industry design and testing109–110
      earplugs for airplane travel289
    AISP (associated imagination of sound perception)115–117
    Albert Einstein School of Medicine234
    alerts and notifications, category of sonification548, 553
    Alfred-Wegener-Institut for Polar-und Meeresforschung167
    Allegemeine musikalische Zeitung208
    Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung211
    Alpers, Svetlana141
    amateur musicians459–479
      coexistence of live and recorded music469
      compositional practices of songwriters affected by karaoke463
      de-skilling of musical performance472
      development of musical amateurism in age of mechanical music459–479
      gameplay vs. instrumental play473
      machines vs. humans making music463
      rapping, vocal parts added over top of breaks as470
      ratio of musicians and teachers to U.S. population, historical numbers461
      schizophonic performance473
      social aspects of music making476
      technologies, engagement with463
      transformation of written musical culture to oral musical culture476
    American Annals of the Deaf324
    American Museum of Natural History133
    American Ornithologists’ Union128, 132
    The American Otologival Society328
    America’s Army361
    Amsterdamska, Olga266
    The Animation of Lists and the Archytan Transpositions213
    anthropology of senses as area involved in sound studies7
    anthropomorphism, sound design in animated short films379, 382
    antinoise campaigns279, 280, 285
      in American and European cities135
      industrial noise abatement59 See also noise
    Apocalypse Now373
    Appun, Georg A. I.203
    archival preservation
      Hungary and Czechoslovakia, nonofficial music practices during Communist era453, 454
      phonograph, preservation of world languages and music188, 189
    Army Signal Corps227
    The Art of the Player-Piano: A Text-book for Student and Teacher464
    articulation
      articulation theory, described547
      nonsonic and sonic, sonification as articulation of556
      phonautograph547
    The Artificial Ear: Cochlear Implants and the Culture of Deafness322
    Ashley, Holt227
    ASL (American Sign Language), sign for cochlear implants323
    associated imagination of sound perception (AISP)115–117
    Association of German Engineers60, 61, 73
    Asthetik der drahtlosen Telegrafie432
    Athanasiades, Katherine480
    Atlas Eclipticalis552
    “Atmospherics/Weather Works,”551
    Atomic Energy Commission238
    atomic force microscope (AFM)244
    “Au Claire de la Lune,”555, 558
    audible history, recording and playing back sound557
    audification, category of sonification548, 553
    audiospectrograph, scientific field recordings in ornithology142–145
    audio-visual proximity, digital games351–352
    auditory culture as area involved in sound studies7
    Auenbrugger, Leopold302
    “Australia Council, Artists and new Technology Program,”213
    Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation213
    Austrian Academy of Sciences190
    Auto Revue97
    Auto-Anzeiger87
    “Autobahn,”154
    Auto-Doktor hearing device83
    Automobiltechnische Zeitschrift86
    Automotive Industries107
    avant-garde music in American advertising388, 392
    Axtell, Harold142
    b-boys and b-girls469
    “Baby, I’m Over the Pain,”485
    “A Back Story: Realism, Simulation, Interaction,”376
    Baier, Gerold258
    Bain, Julian496
    Band, Lothar414
    Barayon, Ramon Sender239
    Barclay, Charles398
    Bardini, Thierry239
    Barker, Hugh508
    Barron, Bebe389
    Barron, Louis389
    Barry, Andrew551
    Barthes, Roland431
    Bastian, Marc-Jan518
    Bateson, Gregory166
    “Battle of Vittoria,”212
    Baudrier, Yves153
    Baudrillard, Jean431
    Bay Area workshop239
    beat tones, scientific instruments as musical204
    the Beamis Point490
    “Beauty of Labor,”61
    Beaver, Paul399
    Beiträge zur Akustik und Musikwissenschaft177
    Bell, Alexander Graham323, 545, 556, 557
      gap between Bell’s and Edison’s understanding of sound557
    Bell Telephone Labratories214, 321
    Bellevue Hospital282
    BeOS Operating System Developer Conference518
    Berkeley Labs555
    Berlin auto mechanics guild91
    Berlin Heinrich Hertz Institute for Vibration Research60
    Berlin Institute of Psychology177
    Berlin laboratory for experimental psychology186, 194
    Berlin Phonogram Archive177–179, 189, 190
      “experimental cylinders,”178
      parlograph as specialization in development of phonograph186
    Bernstein, David W.508
    Bertenshaw, A.J.520
    Bertrand, Rene214
    “Beyond the Shores of Time’ed,”492
    bigbít music scene444
    Biggs, Hermann M.282
    Bijker, Wiebe509
    Bilger, Robert331
    biology
      acoustic microscope research, life scientists’ reluctance to use new imaging technology241
      assigning pitches to amino acid sequences552
      vibrations of cellular life, sonification of549
    biomedical research and dissolution of “military-industrial-academic” research arrangements226–233, 235–237, 239
    black box technology192, 193, 251, 512
      cochlear implants332
      user-friendly design, black-boxing of technology by development of417
    black culture, racial authenticity505–525
      segregation, effect on link between music and black empowerment505
    black culture, racial authenticity in hip-hop music. See hip-hop
    Blaserna, Pietro209
    Blazing Saddles350
    blind persons261
      Optacon as device for scanning and converting text into mechanical vibrations227
      sensor changing pitch according to proximity to objects239
      sonification as accessibility tool553, 554
    Bloch, Ernst530
    blood
      anechoic chamber, blood flow as part of environment157
      body as soundscape304
      in digital games349
      noise, effect on blood chemistry and blood pressure286
      ultrasonic blood imaging231
    blood pressure
      kymograph use179
      noise affecting286
    bobolink song transcript127
    body sounds as diagnostic resource. See stethoscopes
    Bolt, Beranek, and Newman (BBN)321
    Bolz, Norbert417
    bombs
      in digital games349
      earthquakes and bombs, differentiating549
    Booker T. Washington506
    Boott Cotton Mills Museum39
    Born, Georgina551
    Boundin’ and One Man Band382
    Bourdieu, Pierre80, 94
    boutelliphone154
    Braillard, Raymond421
    brain
      brainwaves as music258
      cognitive science, different regions of brain processing different kinds of sounds557
      noise, effect on cortical activity286
      sonification applied to electrical activity of brain250
      theory of presence in virtual environments357
    Branchu, Alexandrine Caroline209
    Braun, Hans-Joachim58
    “breaching experiment,”250
    break dancing469
    Brenton, Harry357
    British Birds129
    broadcasting via radio, emergence of413–417
    “Broadcasting without Frontiers,”420
    Brown, Emily360
    Brunswick phonograph464
    Bruyninckx, Joeri127
    Burch, Susan320
    Bureau International de l’Espéranto418, 419
    Burke, Teresa Blankmeyer324
    Burrows, Arthur R.418
    Bussey, Gordon416
    Cairns, Paul360
    Callon, Michel122
    Cambridge University146
    Cameron, James372
    campus protestors’ demands for civilian research226–241
    capitalism and industrialization52–54
    Captain Nemo and the Underwater City153
    cardiac matters. See heart
    caricature sounds351
    caricaturized vocal performances384
    Carlos, Wendy400
    Carnegie Hall215
    Carpenter, Edmund304
    cassettes and cassette players11, 511, 527
      Hungary and Czechoslovakia, nonofficial music practices during Communist era451–454
      portability plus recording, compact audiocassette enabling515
    Cassirer, Ernst431
    Caterpillar Diesel Engine Company of Rostock72
    cause and effect in semiotic theory549
    CDJ-1000 and digital DJing515, 516
    cells, sonification of inaudible vibrations of cellular life549
    Cerf, Sigrid337
    Cerf, Vinton337
    CertainTeed Corporation287
    Certeau, Michel de540
    “Chamber of Technology,”67
    Chaos and the Emergent Mind of the Pond166
    chart positions in online music sites485
    Chase, Victor335
    Chatfield, Tom531
    chauffeurs, listening to cars81–82
    Cherubini, Luigi211
    Chesworth, David164
    Chicago women’s club465
    children
      applications allowing users to create music474
      hospital noise and infant care286
      music students461
      native signers324
      nostalgic notions of childhood play369
    Children’s Hospital Branch of SSUN283
    Children’s Hospital on Randall’s Island282
    Chouard, Nicolas104
    chronographs204
    Cibulka, Petr453
    Clark, Mary Anne552
    class conflict in early American industrialization44
    clavicylinders203
    Clementi, Muzio211
    Cleophas, Eefje102
    Clinton, President Bill244
    Close Encounters of the Third Kind371
    Codding, George420
    Coffin, Lucy133
    The Cold War and American Science226
    Coleridge, Samuel Taylor359
    collaboration
      animated short films, collaborative creativity in production372
      sonification of scientific data263
    Colligon-Wayne, Lynda539
    COMECON (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance)68
    Committee for Fight against Hearing Damage Caused by Industry60
    Committee for Industrial Noise Abatement60
    Committee for Noise Abatement in Industry61
    Committee of Intellectual, Artistic, and Social Rapprochement419
    Committee of International Relays419
    comparative musicology194
    compositional practices of songwriters affected by karaoke463
    comprehension
      sonification of scientific data250
    Computer Music Journal552
    concert recordings, nonofficial music practices during Communist era448
    conférence préliminaire pour une entente internationale en radio-téléphonie418
    contests, online music sites484, 497
    conversion of data to audible representations224–248
      life scientists’ reluctance to use new imaging technology and interpret new contrast mechanism241
      Optacon as device for scanning and converting text into mechanical vibrations227
      perceiving data in nuanced ways226
      societal advancement, synesthetic conversion inseparable from230
      visual representations, scientists’ predilection for224
    Cooper Ornithological Society144, 145
    Coppola, Francis Ford372
    Cornell University133–136, 139, 140, 142
      Department of Computer Science385
      Harmonic Fluids Project385
      Laboratory of Ornithology138
      Ornithological Laboratory134
    cortical activity, effects of noise on286
    Corvisart, Jean302
    Coslow, Bucky390
    Cotex Corporation287
    cotton mills, early American industrialization39, 45, 48–51
    County Fair Bread394
    Cowboy, (Keith “Cowboy” Wiggins)470
    CPG (punk band)452
    creative constriction, nonofficial music practices during Communist era441, 442, 444, 454, 455
    credibility of computer animation380
    Csíkszentmihályi’s concept of flow357
    The Cult of the Amateur477
    cultural and ethnographic recordings188
    cultural genocide324
    cultural geography as area involved in sound studies7
    Curtis, Scott382
    Da Vinci, Leonardo548
    Daimler-Benz111
    Dark Side of Earth445
    The Dark Side of the Moon305
    Daston, Lorraine135
    Davies, Ebenezer52
    Daye, Christian552
    de Brossard, Sebastien210
    de Campo, Alberto552
    de Certeau, Michel535
    de la Tour, Charles Cagniard205, 206
    de Martinville, Edouard-Leon Scott545
    De radio-detective: draadloze ogen433
    de Roo, Foort104
    Defense Department research, dissolution of military-industrial-academic research arrangements226–233, 235–237, 239
    Delatour, Thierry552
    Delcampe, David104
    Delibes, Leo163
    Designers and Manufacturers of Electronic Music and Musique ConcrËte Devices and Systems392
    Despretz, Cesar-Mansute209
    diagnostic invasiveness and growth of noise in hospitals279
    dialects, early American industrialization47
    dialogue in animated short films369, 380
    diapason normal209
    dictation device, parlograph as186
    Dictionnaire de musique210
    Die Denkumschaltung durch den Rundfunk415
    Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen214
    Die Lehre von den Tonempfindugen205
    Die Reparatur-Werkstatt86, 88
    “Die Wesensform des Lautsprechers: Ein Beitrag zurƒsthetik der Technik,”417
    Diesel Engine Works Rostock71, 72
    digital audio equipment11
    Digital Theater System368
    digital-signal processor (DSP) chips354
    discriminating between sound and noise135
    dishwasher advertisement403
    Disnformation162
    “Distraction from Work by Noise and Music and Its Structural-Typological Context,”62
    DJing469–471, 506–520
      black-folks art form, DJ and turntablism as516, 517
      CDJ-1000 and digital DJing515
      needle drops, mixing, and scratching469, 470, 506
      techno/electronic DJs519
      turntable transformed into musical instrument470 See also hip-hop
    DJ Kool Herc515
    DNA sequences, sonification by assigning pitches to amino acid sequences552
    “Do You Already Know?”88
    Docter, Peter383
    Doctorow, Cory338
    Dodge, Charles552
    Dodge, Martin431
    Doegen, Wilhelm189
    do-it-yourself (DIY) capabilities with tape cassettes453
    Dolby Laboratories385
    Dombois, Florian264
    domestication of electronic sounds in American advertising388–389
    domestication of radio416, 417
    “Donatus Subaqua,”162
    Donders, Franciscus Cornelius185, 207
    “Don’t Beat Your Wife Every Night,”390
    “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,”382
    Double Music157
    “double sociality,” online music sites498
    Douglas, Susan415
    Douglass, Frederick506
    Downs, Roger431
    Doyle, James327
    Draper Laboratory227
    Dresden institute for the Protection of Labor67, 68, 70
    “Dripsody: An Etude for Variable Speed Recorder,”154
    Duhamel, Jean-Marie Constant203
    Dulong, Pierre Louis206
    Dyson, Frances529
    ear defenders288
    “earcons,” category of sonification548, 553
    earplugs and earmuffs287–290
      and airplane travel289
      foam to improve fit and comfort289
      labor unions encouraging use289
      partial deafness in modern populations288
      to prevent hearing loss288
      risks of use in sociological, otological, psychological contexts288
    earthquakes, differentiating between earthquakes and explosions caused by bombs549
    echolocation553
    economic progress, early American industrialization52–54
    Eddie and the Otters489
    Eddington, Donald334
    Edinburgh Royal Infirmary298, 317
    educational potential of radio broadcasting417
    EEG (electroencephalogram) as music258
    Ehinger, Peter104
    Ekstrom ice shelf167
    the Electric Golem490
    Électricité de France325
    “Electronic Music in Communication,”396
    Embargo Act45
    Employerís Liability Insurance Association74
    “empty orchestra,” karaoke translated as466
    enka (Japanese popular music genre)463, 468
    environmental history as area involved in sound studies7
    “ephemerality” of sound (uniqueness in time and place)143
    Erb, J. Lawrence466
    Eric Sunday Archive387
    Eshun, Kodwo507
    ethnology5
      ethnographic observation of online music website users482
      ethnomusicology194
        as area involved in sound studies7
    Euler, Leonard181
    “European experiment,”420
    European Union’s Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks539
    exhaust gas turbochargers, industrial noise abatement71–73
    The Exorcist383
    experimental cylinders178
    explorative vehicle evaluation (EVE)115–116
    exploratory listening14
    explosions, differentiating between earthquakes and explosions caused by bombs549
    “fading points” in hearing spectra142
    Fairchild Semiconductor236
    Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music508
    Faler, Paul44
    Fanon, Frantz506
    Farber, Gene242
    Feaster, Patrick464
    Federal German Society of Engineers67
    Fencott, Clive357
    Fernström, Mikael264
    Fichtel & Sachs92
    Fickers, Andreas411
    Fiebig, André104
    Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music127, 128
    “Fight against Industrial Noise,”61
    FilmSound.org385
    Filtatron, mobile phone music app474
    Finding Nemo368
    Finnegan, Ruth449
    First Sounds researchers and historians544
    Fist Records454
    Fleming, Peter R.301
    Fletcher, Harvey214
    Florida Keys underwater music festival161
    Flusser, Vilém338
    For the Birds369
    “For the Repair Shop,”86
    Forbidden Planet389
    Fordist Technologies528
    Form und Technik431
    Forman, Murray507
    Forty, Adrian416
    fossils, phonautograms as sonic fossils555
    Fouche, Ravon505
    Fourier, Jean-Baptiste Joseph183, 184
    Fox-Case Movietone Corporation133
    Frankfurt School227
    Frauenberger, Christopher262
    Free German Labor Union68
    frequency
      phonautograph, “frequencies are frequencies,”557
    “Fresh Air in the Workplace,”61
    Freud, Sigmund558
    Friedner, Michele320
    Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin188
    Friemert, Chup432
    Frith, Simon508
    “From the Workshop Practice,”88
    The Futurist337
    Galantai, Gyorgy452
    Gallaudet University324
    Gallican Sisters of Charity274
    Garcia, Juan358
    Garfinkel, Harold250
    Gaspard, Jean-Marc323
    Gatewood, Esther L.62
    Gaudeamus Foundation217
    Gaudeamus Music Week216
    Geddes, Keith416
    gender roles
      anti-noisite impulses gendered as female285
      hearing protection devices, effect on manliness66, 75, 76
      paternalism underwriting America’s early factory system, feminization of workplace where workers mainly women42
    General Electric403
    Geneva as headquarters for international radio regulation418
    genres in online music sites483
    “Geographical Variation in the Vocalization of the Western Meadowlark,”144
    geometric shapes in human characters, animated short films377, 384
    George, Nelson507
    Gergen, Kenneth250
    Gerlich, Christian415
    German Association of Motorists (Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil Club)83
    German Chambers of Industry and Commerce89
    German Labor Front61, 63
    German Lutheran Deaconesses274
    German Society for Industrial Hygiene60
    German Sound Archive189
    German Telefunken Society425
    “Ghost Shells,”162
    Gibson, William529
    Giedion, Siegfried509
    Gilmore, J.H.358
    Gimzewski, Jim225
    God Created Great Whales156
    “Good Light, Good Work,”61
    Goodman, John383
    Goodwin, Andrew472
    Gordon, Andrew383
    The Gordon Assumption164
    Gouverneur Hospital282
    Gramophone magazine465
    GrandWizzard Theodore469
    graphic representations
      ornithology, scientific field recordings in132, 133
      psychological graphs, sonification of scientific data261–262
    Grau, Oliver356
    Grew, Sidney463
    Grimshaw, Mark347
    Gross, Robert A.43
    Guggenheim Foundation214
    Guthmann, F.210
    Gutman, Herbert46, 47
    Haacke, Hans552
    Hacker, Oskar83
    Haddon, Leslie416
    Hagen, Trever440
    Haight-Ashbury239
    hair length regulation in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, nonofficial music practices during Communist era444
    Haley, William D.53
    Halffman, Willem259
    Hamm’s Beer392
    “Hands Off,”94
    haptic feedback in digital games359
    Harman, Willis239
    Harmon, Genevieve153
    harmonic relations, scientific field recordings in ornithology132
    Harmonix Music Systems472
    Harper, Douglas94
    Harrison, Lou157
    Hartig, Herbert68
    Harty, Sir Hamilton155
    Harvard Medical School314
    Harvard Psychoacoustic Laboratory321
    Hastings Center Report336
    Hauksbee, Francis155
    Hawtin, Richie519
    “hear thinking” vs. “eye thinking,”415
    Heinrichs, Ralf104
    Henderson, J.535
    Hendrix, Jimi447
    Henriques, Julian161
    Herald (Melbourne)332
    Hessler, Rudolf81
    Hewlett-Packard236
    Hinde, Robert146
    hip-hop469–471, 505–525
      control over sound and means of hip-hop517
      development of new turntables in 1960s and 1970s515
      digital switch
        authenticity and preservation515
        explosion of digital file sharing519
        historical representation of hip-hop characterized by analog turntables, needles, and vinyl records506
        technological switch from analog to digital516, 517
      rapping, vocal parts added over top of breaks as470
      real hip-hop heads515
    Hirsch, Eric389
    historical matters
      everyday life, history of as area involved in sound studies7
      hospital design and hospital noise279, 280
      industrial noise abatement59
      industrialization, historical interpretations of sounds39–40, 54–55
      phonograph, historical a priori178
    Hooke, Robert301
    Hooker, John Lee508
    Horbilder aus dem Leben414
    Horning, Susan136
    hospital noise4, 279–283, 298–299
      as agencies of urgency and potency286
      array of beds in columns and aisles like army barracks, monastic hospices, and church naves279
      diagnostic invasiveness and growth of noise279
      history of hospital design279, 280
      pavilion model presuming intimate supervision over fewer beds, emphasis on surveillance, and requiring open floor plan280
      private and semi-private rooms eliminating noise common to open wards285
      as research laboratories279
      as sanctuaries from noise277
      technological sophistication, noise associated with285
      treatment aggressiveness and growth of noise279
    House Ear Institute328
    House of Parliament313
    Hovhaness, Alan156
    “How to Diagnose Malfunctions of Passenger Cars,”86
    Howard House327
    Hughes Aircraft236
    human hearing under water157
    Hummel, J. N.211
    Hungarian Cultural Center453
    Hungarian Record Company449
    Hungary and Czechoslovakia, nonofficial music practices during Communist era440–458
      adaptive forms of distribution452
      bigbít music scene444
      concert recordings448
      de-Stalinization442
      do-it-yourself (DIY) capabilities with tape cassettes453
      excitement of sociopolitical context448
      gap between ideals of socialist propaganda apparatus and practice within system443
      hair length regulation444
      lectures on Czech cultural history as part of private gatherings to list to music451–454
      licenses and performance fees imposed on musicians444
      modes of listening tied to access to technology and recordings449
      Moscow, interest of443
      musical experience
        flexible, liminal space to view and imagine nonofficial and official lifeworlds449
        regimes’ control making them active participants in445
      “musicking,”441
      “normalization” of Czechoslovakia442–445
      “official,” defined441
      overhearing and eavesdropping446
      postal system distribution453
      rejection of creative constriction imposed by official institutions455
      samizdat, defined442
      social interaction cues448, 449
      Soviet jamming of radio broadcasts446, 447
      “Stalin’s bagpipes,”446
      technological innovations during era445
      tinkering with tapes to include political commentary452
    Hunt, Richard132
    Hurricane Katrina164
    Huygens, Christiaan206
    Hynde, Chrissie488
    I am Sitting in a Room552
    I Am T-Pain, mobile phone music app474
    iBone, mobile phone music app474
    “Identitones, Inc.”396
    identity and reputation in online music sites481, 495, 496
    The Illustrated Insectopedia166
    images
      electronic music in American advertising, relation to images394
      phonautograph, images on phonautograms as sound554, 555
    Imperial Academy of Saint Petersburg182
    Imperial Automobile Club (Kaiserlicher Automobil Club)81
    incunabula of sound recording544
    Industrial Light & Magic367
    Infanti, Andrew162
    informatics
      sonification of scientific data255
    information turned into sound556
    inscription devices17, 18
    insects, aquatic166
    instructional technologies240
    insurance organizations and industrial noise abatement59, 66, 73–76
    interdisciplinary research vs. discipline-based research shielding engineers from moral consequences of work232
    interface design, sounds in548
    International Committee of the Red Cross419
    International Telecommunication Union419, 420
    interstate waters, noise as federal issue requiring statutory revision to authorize municipal regulation282
    iPhones473–476
      accelerometer to movement and spatial orientation474
    iPods526–543
      App Store, music-related applications at473
      as chosen soundworld eradicating preexisting soundworld529
      “colonization,”528
      entitlement of users to personal space539
      equilibrium achieved by use of533, 538
      loudness contributing to hearing loss538, 539
      as necessities526
      “objective alienation,”530
      paradox of connectivity producing separation540
      paradox of sound producing silence540
      and retreating from urban environment535–538
    Jackson, Myles W.201
    Jakubowicz, Karol441
    Japan, emergence of karaoke466
    jargon, online music sites485
    Jasanoff, Shelia421
    jazz musicians in American advertising392, 395
    Jefferson, Thomas45
    Jenkins, Henry513
    Jim’s Ithaca Music Shop489
    Jim’s Records489
    Jirous, Ivan450
    job satisfaction, role of music in64–65
    John A. Hartford Foundation231
    John Q. Adams Center for the History of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery326, 329, 333
    Johnston, Trevor324
    Joint Services Electronics Program231
    Jones, Robert B., Jr.398
    Jorgensen, Kristine360
    Journal for Ethnology188
    Journal of Field Ornithology129
    Journal of the American Society of Acoustical Engineers76
    Juolo, Patrick255
    Jurassic Park375
    Kammerling, Hermann207
    Katrina, Hurricane164
    Kearney, Paul357
    Keaton, Buster378
    Keen, Andrew477
    Keil, Charles468
    Kercheval, JC494
    King, Martin Luther, Jr506
    King Edward’s Hospital Fund for London276
    King Pharoah492
    King’s College204
    Kingsley, Charles152
    Kinscella, Hazel466
    Kish, Daniel553
    Kitchin, Rob431
    knowledge
      19th-century, seeing and knowing as closely coupled555
      phonautograph, dissolution of old knowledge about senses557 See also comprehension
    Knowles, Ian104
    Kobbe, Gustav463
    Kobor, Janos445
    Koch, Heinrich208
    Koenig, Gottfried Michael214, 215
    Kohler, Robert E.146
    Kolb, Richard415
    Konig, Wolfgang120
    Kosovsky, Bob387
    Kouvaras, Linda164
    Kracauer, Siegfried529
    Kratzenstein, Christian Gottlieb182
    Krause, Bernie399
    Krebber, Winfried104
    Kreith, Marcia145
    Kretschmer, Ernst63
    Kruetzer, Conradin211
    Kuhn, Thomas509
    “Kunibald, the Smart Customer,”95, 96
    Kursell, Julia176
    kymograph179–181, 203, 207
      mathematically formalizing body’s processes instead of visualizing them179
    La radiodiffusion: Puissance mondiale418
    labor unions and industrial noise60, 68, 289
    Laënnec, René-Théophile Hyacinth301, 303, 311
    lamps in animated short films379
    Landel, Eric104
    Lane, Harlan323
    Langdon, J. N.62
    Lange, Bernhard104
    Lange, Britta176
    language
      automobile sounds, European language differences115
      jargon, online music sites485
      MCs (masters of ceremonies), preferred term for rappers470
      sonification of scientific data, vocabulary of259–260
      synthesized sounds, language used to describe402
    Laplace, Pierre Simon206
    Larcom, Lucy54
    laryngograph181
    laser scanning of phonautograph cylinders554, 555
    Last, Gunter65
    Lastra, James355
    Laurel and Hardy378
    Le Caine, Hugh154
    League of Nations419
    Leber, Sonia164
    Led Zeppelin475
    Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time474
    Letters to a Young German Princess181
    Level Green Recording Company489
    Lever Brothers392
    Levy, Neil Louis431
    licenses and performance fees, nonofficial music practices during Communist era444
    “Life Music,”552
    lightness in electronic music in American advertising392, 405n
    liminality of noise282
    Lindström, Carl134
    listening modes
      distinction between different modes of listening98 n 2
      exploratory listening14
      monitory listening14, 83
      synthetic listening14
    listening practices
      continually changing ways of hearing and listening178
    listening skills
      car noises, mechanics’ listening skills80–86
      sonification of scientific data, skills needed for256, 265
    literary studies
      as area involved in sound studies7
      industrialization, literary representations of sounds42, 47–51
    The Little Magazine336
    Lockwood, Annea154
    Locomotive GT445
    Loizou, Philip336
    looms in early American industrialization39, 48–49
    Lord of the Rings375
    “Lowell system,”45
    LP records in Hungary and Czechoslovakia449
    Lubell Laboratory161
    lung pressure, kymograph study179
    Luschan, Felix188
    Lynch, Michael145
    Maas, Walter217
    Machover, Tod475
    Macy’s Department Store401
    Mademoiselle389
    magnetic film system, sound design in animated short films370
    Maguire, G.Q.336
    Maillard, Virginie104
    Malle, Louis377
    Malzel, Johann Nepomuk211, 212
    Malzelís, Johann Nepomuk211
    Mangione, Salvatore301
    Manhattan Research, Inc.392
    manuals for car repair81, 83, 84
    Mapping Cybespace431
    Maps in Mind: Reflections on Cognitive Mapping431
    Marcuse, Herbert530
    Marl, Marley520
    Marler, Peter145
    “Martineau and Organ,”153
    masking techniques, noise290
    Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary334
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology329
    Matsushita Corporation515
    Max Planck Institute for History of Science176
    Maxwell House Coffee395
    Mayer-Sidd, Eugen88
    McColvin, Lionel460
    McFerrin, Bobby382
    McGee, Ellen336
    McLuhan, Marshall304
    mechanical “ears” vs. human ears129
    Mechanical Instruments upon Musical Education466
    mechanical objectivity, scientific field recordings in ornithology135
    Mechanics and Manufacturers44
    “Medicine, Rationality, and Experience,”314
    Memoir of Samuel Slater53
    Metasynth software, generating sounds from data found in pictures549
    Metropolitan Hospital on Blackwell’s Island282
    Meyerbeer, Giacomo209
    Michaelis, C. F.208
    Michelangelo274
    Michelson, Robin328
    Mickey Mouse369
    micropolyphony216
    microscience244
    Mike’s New Car383
    military
      Vietnam-era protest at Stanford University, and history of probe microscopy226–241
    Miller, Simon158
    Ministry of Labor and the German Society for the Protection of Workers61
    MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)226, 227, 475
    modularity of senses and sensory technologies547
    Moffre, Mark495
    “Molecular Music,”552
    monitory listening14, 83
    “Monsters, Inc.”383
    Montefiore, Richard495
    Montpellier. France234
    Montreux Plan420
    Moravec, Hans320
    More Songs of Wild Birds138
    Morley, Angela153
    Moscheles, Ignaz211
    Mott, Robert L.369
    movie industry
      ornithology, scientific field recordings in133, 134
    multichannel sound presentation in animated short films373–374
    Mumford, Lewis509
    Murch, Walter373
    Musée phonographique189
    Museum for Industrial Hygiene61
    Museum of Fine Arts335
    music as human vs. mechanical activity463–466
    “Music for Tuning Forks,”213, 214
    Music Minus One Inc.466
    music teachers, number corresponding to number of amateur musicians461
    music theory128
    “Music while You Work,”62, 64, 65
    “music without musicians,”389
    musical identity in online music sites481, 495, 496
    musical instruments, use of water154, 169n
    musicals, sound design in animated short films382
    “musicking,”441
    Musikalisches Lexikon208
    Muzac Corporation528
    My Dinner with Andre377
    “My Way,”477
    myxobacteria, cryogenic acoustic microscope image of243
    nanotechnology evolution244
    narrative voice, sound design in animated short films369
    National Bureau of Standards231, 236
    National Cancer Institute234
    National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke331
    National Institutes of Health231, 328
    National Management of Light Music444
    National Measurement Laboratory at Monash University213
    National Nanotechnology Initiative244
    National Physical Laboratory (NPL)106, 107
    National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK)91
    nationalistic use of radio for ideological or propagandistic purposes419, 433, 446
    Neal, Mark Anthony507
    Neate, Patrick507
    needle drop technique469
    neural-computer interfaces, cochlear implants320–323
    neuroprosthetics, cochlear implants321
    New Economic Mechanism (NEM), Communist era442, 443, 452
    New York City Fire Department215
    New York Daily Tribune282
    New York Public Library387
    Newman, Ernest463
    Nicolson, Malcolm303
    19th-century, seeing and knowing as closely coupled555
    19th-century devices rendering invisible aspects of natural world visible546
    19th-century musical scientific instruments202–207
    19th-century shift toward machines that treated sound as reproducible effect556
    Noise Abatement Commission68
    Noise Water Meat154
    North German League59
    “Notes from the Sick Room,”275
    Notes on Hospitals275
    Notes on Nursing275
    Notes ono Nursing for the Labouring Classes275
    notifications, category of sonification548, 553
    NSKK-Obersturmf¸hrer91
    nuance, perceiving data in nuanced ways226
    Obama, Barack506
    Ocarina as instrumental app474, 475
    occupational disease, industrial noise abatement60, 70, 73–74
    Ocean of Sound165
    “Ode to Joy,”475
    Ogawa, Hiroshi467
    “Oh, Susanna,”475
    Ohne Chauffeur82
    Oku, Shinoobu468
    On the Meaning of the Phonograph for Comparative Musicology187
    On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music183
    “On Vowel Sounds, and on Reed-Organ Pipes,”182
    online music sites480–502
      ACIDplanet and ACID software, history of481, 482
      chart positions485
      “chart whores,”485
      comments combining technical terms, technical features of music, references to sound of well-known artists, and descriptions of the sounds themselves493
      copyright infringements483
      demographics of users482
      “double sociality,”498
      ethnographic observation of users482
      getting music heard485
      guidance on music-making abilities and production skills492
      musical identity495, 496
        identity detached from physical creation of music495
      originality of work, requirement for483
      posting of original music483
      recording studio, computer as481
      traces and interactions497, 498
      “transduction” from sound to other medium498
      translating sounds into words, use of review feature for492, 493, 498
      “virtual band,”494
    onomatopoetic sounds, underwater music153–154
    on-screen and off-screen sounds, digital games349, 350, 361
    opera, underwater music163
    Optacon as device for scanning and converting text into mechanical vibrations for blind readers227
    organ reed pipes203
    Organisation International de Travail419
    originality of work, requirement for online music sites483
    ornithology, scientific field recordings in127–150
      “a frame of mind,”141
      audiospectrograph142–145
        analysis of geographic variation of Western meadowlark calls144
        ink tracing of audiospectrogram145
      birdsong, use of term132
      bobolink song transcript127
      context issues140
      “ephemerality” of sound (uniqueness in time and place)143
      “fading points” in hearing spectra142
      field sound vs. laboratory sound, benefits and restraints129–131
      graphic representation132, 133
      harmonic relations132
      landscape painting analogy141
      listening as subjective and individual experience142
      mechanical objectivity135
      movie industry collaboration133, 134
      and music theory128
      musical notation, history of animal sounds in128, 132
        graphic representation132, 133
        mechanization of sound recording, effect on natural sound as object of scientific study129
        physics as necessary to study132
      “natural” sound137
      oscillograph142
      positioning of sound source with respect to recording element137
      recording van photo138
      sonic sterility130
      sound quality, history of animal sounds in musical notation128
      timbre, history of animal sounds in musical notation128
      transhistorical idealization of nature of sound141
      transportation of equipment, difficulties134
    oscillograph142
    Osterwaldt, Klaus162
    Ostwald, Walter92
    otoplastics70
    Oudshoorn, Nelly430
    The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine306, 311
    Painleve, Jean153
    pair comparison test113
    Paneuropa der Sender414
    parapsychological synesthesia239
    Parkhurst, Winthrop460
    “Parliament Station, Melbourne,”164
    Parlophone record company134
    paternalism during early industrialization40, 42, 46
    Paul, Stephan104
    Payne, Roger156
    perception of sound
      nonisochronic pulses206
      phenomenology, superiority of sound for perceiving change over time225
      phonograph recordings194
      proprioceptive perception of sound231
      scientific experimentation, sonic contaminants in130
      and sonification253
      and sound-reproduction technology557
      underwater sound157
      virtual world vs. real world348
      vision and hearing as single perceptual event347, 348, 351
    percussion solos469
    Perennial Acoustic Observatory in the Antartic Ocean167
    Perry, Jesko120
    “Pharoah’s Corvetter,”491, 492
    Phillips Electronics511
    Philosophical Transactions155
    philosophy of communication338
    phonautograph180, 181, 554–558
      articulation, concept of547
      display of sonic data556
      fossils, phonautograms as sonic fossils555
      “frequencies are frequencies,”557
      images on phonautograms as sound554, 555
      knowledge, dissolution of old knowledge about senses557
      laser scanning of cylinders554, 555
      music teachers favoring phonograph as means of engaging students466
      postsonic, phonautograph’s relationship to sound best described as postsonic546
      self-recording instruments180, 181
      sounding right vs. looking right556
      visual appearance, sounding right vs. looking right556
      visualization of sound capabilities556
      voice, deprivileging557
    phonograph11, 176–197
      acoustic tags added to recordings188
      adjusting, calibrating, and controlling correct operation of phonograph, use of ears for181
      amateur music affected by influence of sound-reproducing technologies463–466
      archival preservation of world languages and music188, 189
      “becoming” of medium178
      constant adjustment, means of recording and means of listening in constant adjustment in relation to each other178
      convergence point for music psychology, ethnomusicology, experimental phonetics, and psychology, phonograph serving as194
      copies of recordings178
      cultural and ethnographic recordings188
      deterioration of recording191
      DJs, effect of mixing and scratching469, 470, 506
      emerging recording industry189
      experiments during early 20th century176–197
      field work during early 20th century176–197
      historical a priori178
      meaning for auditory culture192
      parlograph as specialization in development of phonograph186
      phonographic montages465
      replicating for experimentation177
      similarities between phonograph and phonautograph545
      sinusoidal components, periodic waves described by183, 184
      tagging of recordings188
      technological a priori178
    Phonographed American Indian Melodies from British Columbia188
    Phonographed Turkish Melodies188
    Phonographic Journal188
    Phonographische Zeitschrift189
    phonomusicology, defined9
    phonorealism18
    Physikalisch-technische Reichsanstalt209
    piano, amateur music affected by influence of player piano463–466
    The Pianolist: A Guide for Pianola Players463
    Piccard, Auguste152
    Piccard, Jaczues152
    Picker, John51
    Pierce, Charles Sanders549, 550
    Pierson, Michele375
    pings in underwater music155
    piracy of copyrighted music483, 484
    Pixar’s RenderMan385
    Place-Verghnes, Floriane378
    Plastic People of the Universe450
    play, notion of play in sound design in animated short films368, 369, 379, 380
    playback
      audible history of recording557
      beginning of sound recording544
      disc-playing machines465
      Hungary and Czechoslovakia, nonofficial music practices during Communist era448, 451, 452
      incunabula of sound recording544
      underwater sound160
      wax cylinders, distortions produced by repeated playback191
    player piano, amateur music affected by influence of463–466
    The Player-Piano and its Music463
    PocketGuitar, mobile phone music app474
    Poème symphonique for 100 Metronomes216, 217
    Police Department282
    Popp, Edwald417
    postal system distribution, music practices during Communist era453
    posting of original music at online music sites483
    postsonic relationship, phonautograph546
    Prague Workmen’s Accident Insurance Institute273
    The Price is Right381
    Privat, Edmond418
    private and semi-private rooms, hospital noise285
    privatized nature of music listening526–543
    probe microscopy technology lending itself equally well to visual and auditory outputs225
    Propellerhead514
    “Protection against Noise,”67
    Provincial Central Administration for the Welfare of Recruting Veterans273
    Prude, Jonathan46
    Prussian General Trade Code59
    Przeworski, Adam443
    psychoacousticians304
    Psychological Institute188, 190
    Ptolemy, Claudius213
    “A Public Psychiatric Hospital for German-Bohemia,”273
    Quake III Arena361
    Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review211
    quartz tuning fork resonators213
    quasi-performative and quasi-compositional interactions465
    R = R (Review = Review), online music sites491–494
    racial authenticity in hip-hop music. See hip-hop
    radio11, 411–439
      “acoustic images,” capabilities for cognitive visual and spatial imaging415
      broadcasting, emergence of413–417
        subject of intense international political and diplomatic debate418
      children as radio users430, 431
      conversion of knob turning movement into automatic fine-tuning of electrical circuits as masterpiece of electromechanical achievement425
      educational and entertainment potential of broadcasting, discovery of417
      expansion of frequency bandwidth and expansion of transmitter power, effect of423
      as furniture or cabinet416, 417
      Geneva as headquarters for international regulation418
      headphones, foam to improve fit and comfort of plugs and headphones for portable radios289
      nationalistic use of radio for ideological or propagandistic purposes419
        appropriation of radio in Weimar Republic and Third Reich433
        in Hungary and Czechoslovakia446
      political and diplomatic challenges418, 419, 423
      receiver selectivity, improvements to425
      single-knob operation as critical requirement416, 417, 425, 426
      Soviet jamming of radio broadcasts446, 447
      speakers development and integration417
      station identification in American advertising397
      station scales
        conversion of unfathomable “ether” into meaningful places425
      superheterodyne circuit (superhets), explained425
      transistor radios making music portable515
      transnational nature of broadcasting signals418
      visual station indicators425
    Radio: An Art of Sound414
    radio astronomy, study of pulsars in549
    Radiodiffusion416
    Raffles, Hugh166
    railroads, early American industrialization41–44
    Rambert, Maurice418
    rap music
      MCs (masters of ceremonies), preferred term for rappers470
      vocal parts added over top of breaks as rapping470 See also hip-hop
    Rauschenberg, Robert238
    Rawool, Vishakha539
    Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human334
    Regnault, Victor204
    “Regrets and Revelations,”489
    Reichle, Manuel105
    religion and nature, early American industrialization48, 54
    repackaging music, Hungary and Czechoslovakia during Communist era452
    reputation and identity in online music sites481, 495, 496
    Research Triangle Institute334
    “Revolution and abrupt changes in course,”241
    rhymes in hip-hop471
    Riesenbeck, Hajo120
    Rigopulos, Alex472
    Rinne, Heinrich Adolf205
    “Rio Jaupeperi in Amazonas Braxil,”162
    Robinson, John205
    Rochester Institute of Technology323, 334
    Rockwell, John508
    Rodgers, Jimmie508
    Roger Maspetiol327
    Roggeveen, Leonard433
    Roman Catholic Church207
    Roosevelt, Theodore282
    Rossini, Gioacchino209
    Royal Canadian Air force167
    “Running smoothness matters!”93
    rural life, transition to industrialized life39–55
    Russolo, Luigi215
    Rutherford, Ernest155
    Sabaneev, Leonid459
    Saenger, Oscar466
    Salieri, Antonio211
    samizdat, defined442
    San Francisco Tape Music Center509
    Sandberg, Ulf105
    Santa Fe Institute252
    Santa Maria Degli Angeli274
    Saturday Evening Post464
    Savart, Felix206
    Savart wheels206
    scale assessment test113
    Scaletti, Carla253
    scanning tunneling microscopy (STM)243
    Schäfer, Armin176
    Schafer Beer400
    Schevill, William156
    Schicht, J. G.208
    Schickele, Rene414
    schizophonia (disassociation of sound from source)162, 354, 355
    schizophonic performance473, 477
    Schloss, Joe507
    Schmalz, Eduard205
    Schmidgen, Henning130
    Schmidt, Uta433
    Schneider, Wolfgang105
    Schoenberg, Arnold153
    Schulte-Fortkamp, Brigitte115
    science and technology studies (STS)103, 108–110
      as area involved in sound studies7
      electronic music in American advertising388–389
      visual representations, scientists’ predilection for224
    Science News Letter139
    scratching
    Scratch Live520
    Seebeck, August206
    Seitz, Robert414
    The Self-Driver81
    semantic differential scale assessment113–115
    semiotic theory549
    Sennett, Richard538
    sensory studies9
    Serato Audio Research520
    Sergeant Pepper495
    “Series of Lectures to Workingmen, Mechanics, and Apprentices,”53
    Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944391
    The Setmakers416
    Shaikh, Adham492
    Shapin, Steven158
    Shilling, Russell361
    shoemaking, early American industrialization44
    Short, K. R. M.447
    Siegman, Tony241
    SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Graphics)377
    sign language, sign for cochlear implants323
    Sign Language Studies324
    signal processing, cochlear implants332–336
    The Silent World153
    Simmons, F. Blair328
    “Simple Folks,”494
    single-knob operation as critical requirement
    sinusoidal components, periodic waves described by183, 184
    Sistine Madonna274
    size scale focus vs. phenomena or applications focus244
    SL-1100 and SL-1200 turntables515
    Slack, Jennifer Daryl547
    slapping noise in carss79
    Slater, Samuel53
    slavery, early American industrialization40, 52–54
    Slavin, Amie162
    Slonimsky, Nicholas215
    Small, Christopher441
    Smule’s Ocarina474
    social noise44
    Society for Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge449
    sociotechnical community498
    “Some Suggestions for Better Methods of Rcording and Studying Bird Song,”133
    “Sonafon,”162
    “Song Development in Hand-Raised Oregon Juncos,”145
    Songs of the Humpback Whale156
    Songs of Wild Birds139
    Sonic Antarctica166
    Sonic Foundry software company481
    sonic icons548, 553
      heartbeat as sonic icon of life305
    sonic skills, defined11
    sonic sterility, ornithology field recordings130
    sonification5, 544–560
      acceptance, “sonification” community’s struggles for acceptance of data in audible rather than visual form225
      articulation
        articulation theory, described547
        nonsonic and sonic, sonification as articulation of556
      as articulation of sonic and nonsonic556
      blind persons, sonification as accessibility tool553, 554
      cause and effect in semiotic theory549
      contemporary art552
      corrective or supplement to visual display548
      digitization549
      DNA sequences, sonification by assigning pitches to amino acid sequences552
      echolocation553
      empirical weight, conversion of data between senses553
      as legitimate scientific field551
      radio astronomy, study of pulsars in549
      as science or music225
      semiotic theory549
      superiority of ear to eye550
      visual display, as corrective or supplement to548
    sonocytology549
    Sottek, Roland105
    sound color, phonograph to investigate183–185
    sound design
      in cars
        concrete sound-design specifications for cars, necessity of “realistic” setting for listening to sounds110
        experience society requiring increasing focus on sound design119 See also automobiles
      defined7
    sound mapping, listening to cars88
    sound quality index116
    sound studies, defined6, 7
    sound waves with tuning forks
      scientific instruments as musical203
    sounding right vs. looking right556
    sound-writers546
    Soviet jamming of radio broadcasts446, 447
    Space Age News328
    Special Effects: Still in Search of Wonder375
    special effects in animated short films375–376
    Speeth, Sheridan548
    Spencer, Herbert279
    Spohr, Ludwig211
    Spontini, Gaspare211
    Sprocket Systems372
    “Stairway to Heaven,”475
    “Stalin’s bagpipes,”446
    Stanford electrical engineering department239
    Stanford Medical School233
    Stanford Research Institute227, 239
    Stanford School of Engineering227
    Stanford’s School of Engineering239
    Stangl, Alex488
    Stankievech, Charles167
    Stapinksi, Helene473
    Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan367
    State Emigrant Hospital of Manhattan280
    station scales, radio
      conversion of unfathomable “ether” into meaningful places425
    Stefan, Josef209
    Stille halbe Stunde274
    Stockburger, Axel350
    Stockel, G. E.209
    Stockhausen, Karlheinz215
    storytelling in animated short films377–384
    “Strength through Joy,”61, 63
    Stupp, Friedrich91
    Submarine Signal Company of Boston156
    submarines and underwater music155
    subversive messages in Hungarian and Czechoslovakian rock music445
    Suggestions for the Transcription of Exotic Melodies187
    Sullivan, Arthur477
    summation tones204
    superheterodyne circuit (superhets), explained425
    Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)105
    Switched on Beach400
    synchronization of image and sound in animated short films380–381, 383, 385
    synesthetic conversion from one sense to another
      extending perception by fusing different senses240
      Optacon as device for scanning and converting text into mechanical vibrations227
      parapsychological synesthesia239
      societal advancement, synesthetic conversion inseparable from230
    synthesized audio samples, digital games354–355
    synthesizers, electronic music in American advertising388, 399–403
    synthetic listening14
    Szonyei, Tomas452
    tagging of recordings188
    talking dishwasher advertisement403
    Tamura, Miwako145
    Taylor, Yuval508
    Technical Noise Abatement Commission73
    technophilic-synesthetic extensions of awareness238
    “technostemology,”15
    “Teenager Party,”447
    Teknoskop87
    telephone
      invention, phonoautograph as precurser545
    telephonography190
    Terminator 2: Judgement Day375
    teroseismologists254
    Tex Avery: A Unique Legacy378
    Texas Heart Institute307
    Theberge, Paul508
    thematic uses of sound in animated short films368
    “thinglike,” sound as5
    thinking, effect of noise on51–52
    Thoma, Gerhard105
    Thoreau, Henry David48
    Thorpe, Bill146
    Thyssen steel company in Duisburg74, 75
    timbre, history of animal sounds in musical notation128
    Titkow, Anna443
    tonal music in American advertising396
    Tonndorf, Juergen304
    “Tonometric Study of a German Folksong,”191
    Total Identity105
    traces and interactions, online music sites497, 498
    transduction from sound to other medium
      online music sites498
    transformation of sound4
    translating sounds into words, online music site feature492, 493, 498
    transnational nature of radio broadcasting signals418
    transverse vibrations203
    tree echo79
    Trips Festival demonstrating ability of technologies to amplify human consciousness239
    Trocco, Frank401
    Tromlitz, J. G.207
    Tucker, Bonnie323
    Tuileries Garden300
    tunneling microscopy243
    Turner, Fred240
    turntables
      development of new turntables in 1960s and 1970s515
      hip-hop centered on505
      transformed into musical instruments470 See also DJing
    20th-century musical scientific instruments213–218
    “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star,”475
    Überall her aus der Welt414
    Underwater Concerts158
    Underwater Music158
    “Underwater Waltz,”153
    unfamiliar sounds, use in selling products390
    Union International de Radiodiffusion419
    unions and industrial noise60, 68, 289
    University of California, La Jolla159
    University of California at Irvine234
    University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)157
    University of California press229, 243
    University of California-San Francisco328
    University of Melbourne331
    University of North Dakota234
    University of Pittsburgh331
    University of Texas, Dallas336
    University of the Saarland65
    unwanted sound. See noise
    urban cultural expression. See hip-hop
    urban studies as area involved in sound studies7
    urban traffic noise106
    U.S. Congress462
    U.S. Department of Agriculture234
    U.S. National Science Foundation253
    users of online music sites485–490
      “citizens” of ACIDplanet483
      role in shaping website496
      user profiles483
    USSR Labor Research Institute in Moscow64
    Van Lente, Harro255
    van Oost, Ellen430
    Vargas, Kelaine176
    Variations IV394
    Velvet Underground450
    Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI)60
    Vermeulen, Rob105
    Versammlung deutscher Naturforscher und Aerzte208
    Vertesi, Janet432
    Verveyen, Johannes Maria415
    Vestax VRX-2000517
    Vettel, Eric227
    Viennese Phonogram Archive190
    Vietnam-era protest at Stanford University, tracing prehistory of probe microscopy back to226–241
    vinyl records, hip-hop centered on506
    Viotti, Giovanni Battista211
    “virtual bands” in online music sites494
    vision
      19th-century, seeing and knowing as closely coupled555
      acoustic microscopy, ability to “see” things optical microscopes cannot235
      analysis or presentation of data, techniques for548, 553
      animated short films, visual culture, perspectives on realism371–372
      Metasynth software, generating sounds from data found in pictures549
      perception of sound, vision and hearing as single perceptual event347, 348, 351
      radio enabling ear to become serious rival to eye415
      sonification
        as corrective or supplement to visual display548
      superiority of ear to eye550
      visual bias in Western culture11, 554
    visual appearance, sounding right vs. looking right556
    visual radio station indicators425
    visualization
      digital games351
      kymograph, mathematically formalizing body’s processes instead of visualizing them179
      phonautograph556
      software design contributing to visualization of sound556
    vita contemplativa51
    vocal music, industrial noise abatement62, 64
    Vogl, Joseph193
    voices, sound design in animated short films382–384
    VolkswagenStiftung176
    von Helmholtz, Hermann204
    von Kempelen, Wolfgang182
    von Weber, Carl Maria210
    Vulcan Shipyard of Bremen72
    Wagner, Karl Willy60, 61
    Wallace, Anthony F. C.43
    war
      Vietnam-era protest at Stanford University, and history of probe microscopy226–241
      World War I and car ownership81
    Wardynski, Casey361
    Warner, Edward109
    Warner Bros.382
    warning signals
      alerts and notifications, category of sonification548, 553
    “War’s Brutalising Influence,”276
    Water Babies152
    “Water Piece,”154
    Water Whistle158
    waterfalls, underwater music169n
    waterpower, early American industrialization50
    “Wave Play,”162
    Wazowski, Mike383
    Weber, Wilhelm Eduard203
    Weheliye, Alexander507
    Wertheimer, Max187
    Western culture, visual bias in11
    Western Felt Works106
    Western Meadowlark143
    Westminster Bridge313
    “Wet Sounds,”161
    White, George53
    Whole Earth Catalog240
    “Why Bird Song An Not Be Described Adequately,”142
    Wickramasinghe, Kumar244
    Wiggins, Keith “Cowboy,”470
    Willebrand, Guy465
    The Wilson Bulletin129
    Winderen, Jana165
    Winkel, Diederich Nicolaus211
    Wired Magazine513
    Wise, J. Macgregor547
    Without Chauffeur82
    “Wo entsteht das Geräusch?”87
    Wodell, F. W.466
    Woodward, Ian515
    Woolf, Virginia285
    Woolgar, Steven430
    “Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America, 1815-1919,”46
    Wormbs, Nina420
    Wyatt, S.62
    Wynne, Brian421
    Yamagata, Rachael532
    “You Who Will Emerge from the Flood,”162
    Young, Thomas204
    Young Sherlock Holmes367
    Youngblood, Gene362
    Your Hit Parade392
    Zeitler, Alfred105
    Zhang, Charles105
    Ziegler, Susanne176
    zoning and noise abatement59
    Zweig, Arnold415
    Zyda, Michael361
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