Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond
Schwartz is a writer's writer, meaning that he is a sublime stylist, can turn a phrase you'll never forget(Darren Tofts, RealTime)For me, this book is a starting point for a hundred dissertations. Any of the historical vignettes can be excavated further and rendered into more familiar academic arguments. By choosing to let the material largely speak for itself and by letting himself speak so sonorously -- even the acknowledgments are rendered into a form of poem -- Hillel Schwartz has provided the perfect first register for recording a new sonic history.(Trevor PinchIsis Journal of the History of Science Society)