Benjamin Piekut - Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde And its Limits
The New York Philharmonic’s disastrous performance of John Cage’s Atlas Eclipticalis; Henry Flynt’s demonstrations against the downtown avant-garde; Charl..(read more)
Publisher: University of California Press / ISBN: 9780520268517
Author: Benjamin Piekut
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: '60s, Avant-Garde, Experimental, Fluxus, USA.
Pierre Schaeffer - Treatise on Musical Objects
Regarded as Pierre Schaeffer’s most important work on music and its relationship with technology, finally available in English! Subtitled “An Essay Acro..(read more)
Publisher: University of California Press / ISBN: 9780520294301
Author: Pierre Schaeffer
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Music Theory, Musique Concrète, Pioneers, Sonology, Sound Studies.
Jack Halberstam - Trans* – A Quick And Quirky Account Of Gender Variability
If Trans* were simply a compressed, learned primer about gender variability for audiences of all kinds, it would be important enough. But Jack Halberstam here o..(read more)
Publisher: University of California Press / ISBN: 9780520292697
Author: Jack Halberstam
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Gender Theory, Queer Culture, Trans.
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.
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.
Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka - Media Archaeology – Approaches, Applications, and Implications
This book introduces an archaeological approach to the study of media – one that sifts through the evidence to learn how media were written about, used, d..(read more)
Publisher: University of California Press / ISBN: 9780520262744
Author: Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: History, Media Theory, Technology.
Julia Bryan-Wilson - Art Workers
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, in response to the political turbulence generated by the Vietnam War, an important group of American artists and critics ..(read more)
Publisher: University of California Press / ISBN: 978-0520269750
Author: Julia Bryan-Wilson
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Activism, History, Protest.
Larry Austin & Douglas Kahn (Ed.) - Source. Music of the Avant-garde, 1966-1970
This journal “Source: Music of the Avant-garde” was and remains a seminal source for materials on the heyday of experimental music and arts.
Publisher: University of California Press / ISBN: 9780520267459
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Composers, Contemporary, Performance Art, Sound Art.
David W. Bernstein - The San Francisco Tape Music Center
This book tells the story of the influential group of creative artists–Pauline Oliveros, Morton Subotnick, Ramon Sender, William Maginnis, and Tony Martin..(read more)
Publisher: University of California Press / ISBN: 9780520256170
Author: David W. Bernstein
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Early Electronic.
