John Corbett - A Listener’s Guide to Free Improvisation
Improvisation rattles some listeners. Maybe they’re even suspicious of it. John Coltrane’s saxophonic flights of fancy, Jimi Hendrix’s feedback drenched g..(read more)
Publisher: University of Chicago Press / ISBN: 9780226353807
Author: John Corbett
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Free Jazz, Improvisation, Music Theory.
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.
Dick Raaijmakers - Cahier “M”
SORRY – no longer available in english language. The dutch-language version is still available from the publisher here.
Publisher: Leuven University Press / ISBN: 9789058670762
Author: Dick Raaijmakers
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Composers, Music Theory, Sonology, Sound Studies.
Tacet - #04 – Sounds of Utopia
Tacet (subtitled Sound in the Arts) is a bilingual and annual publication documenting and researching sound arts and experimental music. A critical compendium (..(read more)
Publisher: Les presses du réel / ISBN : 978-2-84066-777-3
Author: Tacet
Medium: Magazine
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Magazines, Music Theory, Science Fiction, Sonology, Sound Art.
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.
Karmen Franinovic and Stefania Serafin - Sonic Interaction Design
Sonic Interaction Design gathers contributions from scholars, artists, and designers working at the intersections of fields ranging from electronic music to cog..(read more)
Publisher: MIT Press / ISBN: 9780262018685
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Design, Interactive Technology, Music Theory, Sonology.
Bjoern Gottstein - Musik als Ars Scientia. Die Edgard-Varese-Gastprofessoren des DAAD an der TU Berlin 2000-2006.
Bilingual edition (German / English). The musicologist Bjoern Gottstein takes a look at the work and research focus of the first ten Edgard Varese guest profess..(read more)
Publisher: PFAU Press / ISBN: 3-89727-313-6
Author: Bjoern Gottstein
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Music Theory, Sonic Experiments, Sonology.
Veit Erlmann - Reason and Resonance
Hearing has traditionally been understood as the second sense — less rational and modern than seeing, the master of all senses, the first sense. Reason an..(read more)
Publisher: Zone Books / 9781935408055
Author: Veit Erlmann
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: History, Music Theory.
Thom Holmes - Electronic and Experimental Music
Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive history of electronic music, covering key composers, ..(read more)
Publisher: Routledge / ISBN 9781138792739
Author: Thom Holmes
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Composers, Electronic Music, History, Music Theory.
