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Sound Affects
A plea to listen in a world that has forgotten how, and a grand tour of the wonders of sound: what it does to us, what we're doing to it, and what we lose when we stop paying attention.
Books
Three books, one subject, thirty years.
Each one started as a question I couldn't answer in a talk. Together they're the long version of the argument: sound shapes us, listening is how we make sense of it, and speaking is what we do with what we've understood.
The three
Award-winning
How To Be Heard
A practical guide to improving personal communication, from listening to the voice itself. It won both the SOVAS and the Audie global awards for best business audiobook of the year, which is a pleasing thing for a book about sound.
The first
Sound Business
The case that good sound is good business: how the sound an organisation makes, in its spaces and in its brand, changes what people feel, think, buy and do.
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In other languages
Sound Affects is also published in German as Alles ist Klang and in Italian as Ascoltare il mondo.
For events and bulk orders
Books can be arranged for an event, and I'm happy to sign them. Ask about it when you enquire about the talk, or mention it on the contact form and we'll sort it out.