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.
David Stubbs - Fear Of Music – Why People Get Rothko But Don’t Get Stockhausen
Second edition. Examines parallel histories of modern art and modern music and why one is embraced and the other ignored, derided or regarded with bewilderment,..(read more)
Publisher: Zero Books / ISBN: 9781803417608
Author: David Stubbs
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Abstract, Avant-Garde, Composers, Criticism, Music Theory.
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.
