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“A Foreign Sound to Your Ear”: Digital Image Sonification for Historical Interpretation
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Michael J. Kramer, 2018. "“A Foreign Sound to Your Ear”: Digital Image Sonification for Historical Interpretation", Digital Sound Studies, Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, Whitney Trettien
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