experimental
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Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition John Cage Silence, John Cage’s first book and epic masterpiece, was published in October 1961. In these lectures, scores, and writings, Cage tries, as he says, to find a way of writing that…
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Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art Salome Voegelin Listening to Noise and Silence* engages with the emerging practice of sound art and the concurrent development of a discourse and theory of sound. In this original…
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Electronic and Experimental Music: Foundations of New Music and New Listening (Media and Popularculture) Thom Holmes Electronic and Experimental Music is a second edition of a well-known text on the history of electronic music. Holmes’ original book, first published in…
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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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Boring Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and The Aesthetics of Failure Eldritch Priest Boring Formless Nonsense intervenes in an aesthetics of failure that has largely been delimited by the visual arts and its avant-garde legacies. It focuses on contemporary experimental composition in…
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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…