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New English Translation of Pierre Schaeffer’s Influential Treatise on Musical Objects
If there’s an influential 20th century research, it is Pierre Schaeffer’s one. Not only for art and music, but for engineering and psychology. Although focused on his idea of the musical object, the Treatise on Musical Objects is an oasis of new routes for thinking…
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Tokyo Experimental Performance Archive: Aki Onda
Amazing performance by Aki Onda. More at the Onda’s website | TEPA
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Being Hear, Short Film on Gordon Hempton’s Sonic Ecology
National Geographic has the exclusive streaming of ‘Being Hear‘, a short film dedicated to Gordon Hempton’s philosophy and practice around listening and sound ecology. “In lyrical short film Being Hear, filmmakers Palmer Morse and Matt Mikkelsen capture Hempton in his element as he shares the importance…
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Audio Culture, Second Edition Adds Twenty-five Essays
‘Audio Culture: readings in modern music‘ is probably one of the most crucial readings for anyone interested in the sonic culture of our days. It mixes everything but proposes a variety of clever routes for studying the contemporary panorama around aurality, music, sonic arts, etc. First…
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Open call for editors at Sonic Field
After a needed hiatus, we are back with clear mind and new ideas for Sonic Field. In the last year so much things have changed so much that the whole concept of the site has evolved in ways we didn’t expect, so it is the right…
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Music after the Fall: Modern Composition and Culture since 1989 Tim Rutherford-Johnson Music after the Fall is the first book to survey contemporary Western art music within the transformed political, cultural, and technological environment of the post–Cold War era. In this book, Tim Rutherford-Johnson considers…
