Caspar Henderson is a writer and journalist living in Oxford, England. He is the author of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings and A New Map of Wonders, both published by the University of Chicago Press. As a journalist, he covers topics such as energy, science, environment, and human rights.

“In A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous, the journalist Caspar Henderson takes a more eclectic and encyclopedic approach, presenting 48 short entries on noise broken into four categories. . . . His aim is to stir in readers a ‘sense of aliveness’ and a desire to pay attention to the ‘revelations in sound’ that might astonish and nourish our souls. . . . Henderson has great faith in the power of sound to transform.”

• Introduction  Cosmophony: Sounds of SpaceFirst SoundsResonance (1)Sound in SpaceMusic of the Spheres (1)Music of the Spheres (2)The Golden Record  Geophony: Sounds of EarthRhythm (1) – Planet WavesThe Loudest SoundThe Northern LightsVolcanoThunderListening to a Rainbow  Biophony: Sounds of LifeRhythm (2) – BodyHearingAncient Animal NoisesPlantInsectBeeFrogBatElephantThe Thousand- mile Song of the WhaleLeviathan, or the Sperm WhaleBlackbirdOwlNightingale  Anthropophony: Sounds of HumanityRhythm (3) – Music and DanceOnomatopoeiaHow Language BeganThe Magic FluteThe Nature of MusicHarmonyStrange Musical InstrumentsSad SongsBashōVisible SoundPlato’s CaveEarwormsNoise PollutionThe Sounds of Climate ChangeHellHealing with MusicHealing with SoundBellsResonance (2)FrontiersSilenceSome Good Sounds  ThanksReferences and Further ReadingPermissionsIndex

Caspar Henderson is a writer and journalist living in Oxford, England. He is the author of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings and A New Map of Wonders, both published by the University of Chicago Press. As a journalist, he covers topics such as energy, science, environment, and human rights.

“In A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous, the journalist Caspar Henderson takes a more eclectic and encyclopedic approach, presenting 48 short entries on noise broken into four categories. . . . His aim is to stir in readers a ‘sense of aliveness’ and a desire to pay attention to the ‘revelations in sound’ that might astonish and nourish our souls. . . . Henderson has great faith in the power of sound to transform.”

• Introduction  Cosmophony: Sounds of SpaceFirst SoundsResonance (1)Sound in SpaceMusic of the Spheres (1)Music of the Spheres (2)The Golden Record  Geophony: Sounds of EarthRhythm (1) – Planet WavesThe Loudest SoundThe Northern LightsVolcanoThunderListening to a Rainbow  Biophony: Sounds of LifeRhythm (2) – BodyHearingAncient Animal NoisesPlantInsectBeeFrogBatElephantThe Thousand- mile Song of the WhaleLeviathan, or the Sperm WhaleBlackbirdOwlNightingale  Anthropophony: Sounds of HumanityRhythm (3) – Music and DanceOnomatopoeiaHow Language BeganThe Magic FluteThe Nature of MusicHarmonyStrange Musical InstrumentsSad SongsBashōVisible SoundPlato’s CaveEarwormsNoise PollutionThe Sounds of Climate ChangeHellHealing with MusicHealing with SoundBellsResonance (2)FrontiersSilenceSome Good Sounds  ThanksReferences and Further ReadingPermissionsIndex

Caspar Henderson is a writer and journalist living in Oxford, England. He is the author of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings and A New Map of Wonders, both published by the University of Chicago Press. As a journalist, he covers topics such as energy, science, environment, and human rights.

“In A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous, the journalist Caspar Henderson takes a more eclectic and encyclopedic approach, presenting 48 short entries on noise broken into four categories. . . . His aim is to stir in readers a ‘sense of aliveness’ and a desire to pay attention to the ‘revelations in sound’ that might astonish and nourish our souls. . . . Henderson has great faith in the power of sound to transform.”

• Introduction  Cosmophony: Sounds of SpaceFirst SoundsResonance (1)Sound in SpaceMusic of the Spheres (1)Music of the Spheres (2)The Golden Record  Geophony: Sounds of EarthRhythm (1) – Planet WavesThe Loudest SoundThe Northern LightsVolcanoThunderListening to a Rainbow  Biophony: Sounds of LifeRhythm (2) – BodyHearingAncient Animal NoisesPlantInsectBeeFrogBatElephantThe Thousand- mile Song of the WhaleLeviathan, or the Sperm WhaleBlackbirdOwlNightingale  Anthropophony: Sounds of HumanityRhythm (3) – Music and DanceOnomatopoeiaHow Language BeganThe Magic FluteThe Nature of MusicHarmonyStrange Musical InstrumentsSad SongsBashōVisible SoundPlato’s CaveEarwormsNoise PollutionThe Sounds of Climate ChangeHellHealing with MusicHealing with SoundBellsResonance (2)FrontiersSilenceSome Good Sounds  ThanksReferences and Further ReadingPermissionsIndex