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New Books: After Sound, Experimental Music, John Cage’s Aesthetics, Post-Modern Listening
Four new books were recently added to our bookshelf, all released by Bloomsbury Academic and focused on diverse topics around experimental music theories: After Sound: Towards a Critical Music by G Douglas Barrett Bloomsbury | Amazon “After Sound considers contemporary art practices that reconceive music beyond…
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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 music is not a limited…
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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 time itself is articulated musically.…
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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 cross-disciplinary engagements with the visual…
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After Sound: Toward a Critical Music G Douglas Barrett After Sound considers contemporary art practices that reconceive music beyond the limitation of sound. This book is called After Sound *because music and sound are, in Barrett’s account, different entities. While musicology and sound art theory…
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“Acoustic Infrastructures”, continent. journal special issue on sound
Continent. journal has published an interesting issue on sound called Acoustic Infrastructures, exploring a wide range of perspectives around them, crossing art, ecology, technology, philosophy, among others. The street-level sonic cultures, acoustic ecologies and personal interventions available to us have, during this long 20th Century,…
