Books
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Dissonance: Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece (Idiom Inventing Writing Theory FUP) Sean Alexander Gurd In the four centuries leading up to the death of Euripides, Greek singers, poets, and theorists delved deeply into auditory experience. They charted its capacity to…
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Colloquium: Sound Art and Music Thomas Gardner, Salomé Voegelin In 2012, Thomas Gardner and Salomé Voegelin hosted a colloquium, entitled “Music – Sound Art: Historical Continuum and Mimetic Fissures”, at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.…
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Sounds: The Ambient Humanities John Mowitt This is not a book about sound. It is a study of sounds that aims to write the resonance and response they call for. John Mowitt seeks to critique existing models in the expanding…
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Experimental Music Since 1970 Jennie Gottschalk What is experimental music today? This book offers an up to date survey of this field for anyone with an interest, from seasoned practitioners to curious readers. This book takes the stance that experimental…
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Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening Jonathan D. Kramer Kramer was one of the most visionary musical thinkers of the second half of the 20th century. In his The Time of Music, he approached the idea of the many different ways that…
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Experimentations: John Cage in Music, Art, and Architecture Branden Wayne Joseph *Experimentations *provides a detailed historical and theoretical analysis of the first three decades of experimental composer John Cage’s aesthetic production (ca. 1940-1972). Paying particular attention to Cage’s inter- and…