Kromhout, Melle Jan. The Logic of Filtering: How Noise Shapes the Sound 
of Recorded Music. Oxford University Press, New York, 2021.

Please excuse the cross-posting, but I can think of a large number of 
people who might want to be aware of this book.

My friend and the lead author on several papers I collaborated on, Dr. 
Federica Bressan, sent me the link to this today--and at first glance it 
appears interesting, though I have to read more deeply into it when I 
see tape noise compared to dither in certain ways. I must say,  however, 
that this quote resonates with me on the level of chasing perfection in 
a software NR decoder for a hardware system.

> The analysis of noise-reduction systems that follows will problematize 
> this basic logic of concealing noise and revealing signals, focusing 
> on the circular reasoning that follows from the idealized principles 
> underpinning their technological operation. In this logic, the system 
> reduces all noise, which it defines as everything that is reduced. 
> Instead of reinforcing and fulfilling this logic—which I will call the 
> conceptual logic of noise reduction—my assessment shows that noise 
> reduction is an interminable, inherently partial project. (p45)

https://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/academic/pdf/openaccess/9780190070144.pdf

It's an open-source publication and available for download now.

Cheers,

Richard

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020051794
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020051795
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190070137.001.0001


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