Tim Rutherford-Johnson - Music After The Fall
Music after the Fall is the first book to survey contemporary Western art music within the transformed political, cultural, and technological environment of the..(read more)
Publisher: University of California Press
Author: Tim Rutherford-Johnson
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Composers, History, Music Theory, Sound Art.
Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco - Analog Days – The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer
The synthesizer when it first appeared was truly revolutionary. How an engineering student at Cornell and an avant-garde musician in California set this revolut..(read more)
Publisher: Harvard University Press / ISBN: 9780674016170
Author: Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Analog Synth, Electronic Music, History, Instrument Builders.
Mark Vail - The Synthesizer
Expert Mark Vail tells the complete story of the synthesizer: oigins, crucial advancements in sound generation, musical control, and composition made with instr..(read more)
Publisher: Oxford University Press / ISBN: 9780195394894
Author: Mark Vail
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Analog Synth, History, Manual.
Various Artists - The Secret Museum Of Mankind Vol. II – Ethnic Music Classics: 1925-48
In the ’90s, postman and WFMU DJ Pat Conte published recordigs from a collection of 78 rpm records he’d found in a basement. He curated an impressiv..(read more)
Label: Outernational / 1002
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: 2LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Compilations, History, Vinyl, World Music.
David Toop - Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom
An interdisciplinary and sweeping overview,, Toop introduces the philosophy and practice of free improvisation (both musical and otherwise) within the historica..(read more)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic / 9781628927696
Author: David Toop
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: '60s, '70s, History, Improvisation, Music Theory.
Various Authors - Body Luggage
A collection of essays that imagines the migration of cultural signs across borders, of body language as the inalienable signs we carry with us, even if they ar..(read more)
Publisher: Archive Books / Steirischer Herbst / ISBN: 978-3-943620-55-9
Author: Various Authors
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Dance, History, Performance Art, Politics, Theatre.
Frans de Waard - This Is supposed To Be A Record Label
New edition at a lower price. Eleven years of Staalplaat history (1992-2003) from the perspective of Mr. Staalplaat himself. In his typical, dry style, he remin..(read more)
Publisher: Timeless Editions
Author: Frans de Waard
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Biography, History, Noise.
William Olsen - Mastering the Theremin
Features performances and discussions of the theremin by Clara Rockmore, the famous theremin virtuosa (1911-1998), plus instructions in six lessons by another v..(read more)
Label: Moog Music / B004F9F49O
Artist: William Olsen
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Documentary, Electronic Music, History.
Thomas Patteson - Instruments For New Music
Centered in Germany during the 1920s/1930s, the movement to create new instruments was full of experiments, from the exploration of microtonal tunings and exoti..(read more)
Publisher: University of California Press / ISBN: 9780520288027
Author: Thomas Patteson
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: History, Instrument Builders, Mechanical Music, Music Theory, Sonology.
