Chion, Michel. Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen. New Yori: Columbia University Press, 1994
Holman, Tomlinson. Sound for Film and Television. boston: Focal Press, 2002
Kahn, Douglas. Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1999
LoBrutto, Vincent. Sound-on-Film: Interviews with Creators of Film Sound. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1994.
Sonnenschein, David. Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice, and Sound Effects in Cinema. Los Angeles, Michael Wiese Productions, 2001.
Whittington, William. Sound Design and Science Fiction. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2007.
Wishart, Trevor. Audible Design: A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Sound Composition. Orpheus the Pantomime, Ltd., 1994
Wishart, Trevor. On Sonic Art. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996
Selected Videography:
Solaris a film by Andre Tarkovsky. Not the one with George Clooney. The Russian director's answer to 2001 based on a Stanislaw Lem novel(la).
TXH 1138 a film by George Lucas (sound "montages" by Walter Murch). A dystopic weirdie with phenomenal sound design. The recent DVD release has "master sessions" with Murch discussing his sound design.
The Conversation a film by Francis Ford Coppola (sound design by Walter Murch). One of Coppola's two academy award nominated movies in 1974.
Apocalypse Now a film by Francis Ford Coppola (sound design by Walter Murch). Well-known classic whose sound design could be studied endlessly.
Selected Discography
Dodge, Charles. Any resemblance is purely coincidental… Contains title piece of re-imagined Caruso along with the seminal Speech Songs
Lansky, Paul. Fantasies and Tableaux. Contains Six Fantasies on a Poem of Thomas Campion a tour de force of LPC analysis/resynthesis of speech.
Reich, Steve. Early Works. Contains text-based classics "Come Out" and "It's Gonna Rain."
Subotnick, Morton. Silver Apples of the Moon. A classic of early synthesizer music and just plain good.
Wishart, Trevor. Voiceprints. Contains many excellent text-y pieces including "American Triptych."