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Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond (Music in the Twentieth Century) Michael Nyman Michael Nyman’s book is a first-hand account of experimental music from 1950 to 1970. First published in 1974, it has remained the classic text on a significant form…
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Listening through the Noise: The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music Joanna Demers Electronic music since 1980 has splintered into a dizzying assortment of genres and subgenres, communities and subcultures. Given the ideological differences among academic, popular, and avant-garde electronic musicians,…
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Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound Tara Rodgers Pink Noises brings together twenty-four interviews with women in electronic music and sound cultures, including club and radio DJs, remixers, composers, improvisers, instrument builders, and installation and performance artists. The…
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Sounding New Media: Immersion and Embodiment in the Arts and Culture Frances Dyson Sounding New Media examines the long-neglected role of sound and audio in the development of new media theory and practice, including new technologies and performance art events,…
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Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer Trevor Pinch & Frank Trocco Though ubiquitous today, available as a single microchip and found in any electronic device requiring sound, the synthesizer when it first appeared was truly revolutionary.…
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What’s the Matter with Today’s Experimental Music?: Organized Sound Too Rarely Heard Leigh Landy A study of contemporary music based on the premise that it is suffering from a distinct lack of attention. It inspects and evaluates what is happening…