Books!

irad · Joined: Sep 22, 2003 Posts: 1

i'm looking for good books dealing with sound art, electroacoustic composition. also looking for books discussing the history of electronic music. i'll thank anyone who can recommand on something.

elektro80 · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 10:25 pm Post subject:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1931140170/102-2346483-7350501?v=glance

Electronic Music Pioneers
by Ben Kettlewell

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Vintage Synthesizers: Groundbreaking Instruments and Pioneering Designers of Electronic Music Synthesizers
by Mark Vail
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0879302755/qid=1069650803/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/102-2346483-7350501?v=glance&s=books

Modulations: A History of Electronic Music: Throbbing Words on Sound
by Iara Lee
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/189102406X/qid=1069650803/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/102-2346483-7350501?v=glance&s=books

Electronic and Experimental Music
by Thom Holm
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0415936446/qid=1069650803/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/102-2346483-7350501?v=glance&s=books

The Ambient Century : From Mahler to Moby-The Evolution of Sound in the Electronic Age
by Mark Prendergast
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1582343233/ref=pd_sim_books_3/102-2346483-7350501?v=glance&s=books

Site of Sound: of Architecture and the Ear by Brandon Lebelle (Editor), et al

The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction by Jonathan Sterne

Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Voice, Sound, and Aurality in the Arts by Douglas Kahn (Author)

Noise: The Political Economy of Music (Theory and History ),

The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933 by Emily Thompson (Author)

Electric Sound: The Past and Promise of Electronic Music
by Joel Chadabe (Author) (Paperback)

The Computer Music Tutorial
by Curtis Roads (Author) (Paperback)

Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance
by Charles Dodge, Thomas A. Jerse (Paperback)

Experimental Music : Cage and Beyond
by Michael Nyman (Author) (Paperback - October 1999)

To Boulez and Beyond: Music in Europe Since the Rite of Spring
by Joan Peyser, Joan (Hardcover - December 1999)

Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde
by Douglas Kahn (Editor), et al (Paperback)

Genesis of a Music: An Account of a Creative Work, Its Roots and Its Fulfillments
by Harry Partch (Paperback - September 1979)

Music, Physics and Engineering
by Harry F. Olson (Author) (Paperback - June 1967)

The New Music: The Avant-Garde Since 1945
by Reginald Smith Brindle (Paperback - October 1987

American Minimal Music: LA Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass
by Wim Mertens, J. Hautekeit (Translator

Rationalizing Culture: Ircam, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde
by Georgina Born (Paperback - May 1995)

Techniques of the Contemporary Composer
by David Cope (Paperback)

20/20: 20 New Sounds of the 20th Century
by William Duckworth

seraph · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 1:15 am Post subject:

gee...Stein
you are a walking work that contains information on all branches of knowledge or treats comprehensively a particular branch of knowledge usually in articles arranged alphabetically often by subject (aka encyclopedia Exclamation

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Do not tell me that you own all of them because I will not believe you Very Happy

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 1:27 am Post subject:

Nope.. I do not own all of these... but I know these titles fairly well. i have a lot... a huge lot.. of books on music. A lot of these are scandinavian titles .. and rare xerox copies etc etc.. You remember the Solomon papers?? Very Happy

I suggest our friend IRAD checks out the various threads here and collect some of the more obscure links there.

I suggest IRAD also checks out the first book by Peter Michael Hamel.

And... I have another booklist somewhere... which is kinda pretty deep and dense... but where is it??

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 1:35 am Post subject:

Hmm..

Gee Carlo, you are right. Perhaps I collect too much info?

seraph · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 1:37 am Post subject:

you missed only a book I consider a great one:
synthesizer performance and real-time techniques
by the late Jeff Pressing (check the threads with the "search" option to learn more about him).
I do not know if it is out of print, though.

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

I love how some of these threads leave me feeling like some rogue dirty homeless unversed kid in the streets of Music City.

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 1:42 am Post subject:

There are so many great books on modern music. i suggest Irad tells us a bit about where to start... It is much easier to follow on on certain subjects and take it from there. BTW: Most decent university bookstores has great sections on music. Perhaps Howard, Jeff Harrington of jack Tamul can suggest some interesting titles too?

I once saw three xerox copies of some extremely interesting papers on the keyboard technique of Joe Zawinul. I have tried to find those for years. Any suggestions? In my opinion, that Zawinul dude is pretty good. I have heard him live many times. I do not always agree with the band.. but Zawinul always delivers. I know... Zawinul plays kinda fusion jazz and this is supposed to be dead and buried.. but I think he is good anyway. And his keynoard skills are awesome. Hmm... thus thread is supposed to be about "new" music.. sorry.. no more Zawinul... I promise..

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 1:47 am Post subject:

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 1:50 am Post subject:

I haven´t seen that many forums out there which take threads like this one in .. well.. this direction. This is a great place to hang out. Cool

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

I am familliar with csound, so I suppose that puts shoes on my feet.

Cyx

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 1:54 am Post subject:

Shoes are cool! Very Happy

This field is huge. The only thing you can hope to do well is to pursue your own vision.

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

Huge yes, probably several orders of magnatude beyond most others simply due to accessability and the age we are in right now, and it really hasn't even happened yet, if you know what I mean,

Cyx

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 2:06 am Post subject:

You propose the idea that theoretical frameworks that handle what we do now, is a thing of the future? And that the major bulk of literature, both practical and acedemic, is yet unpublished? Yeah, you might be right. That idea has some interesting implications.

seraph · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 2:07 am Post subject:

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 2:13 am Post subject:

Same guy-- Joe

seraph · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 2:20 am Post subject:

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 2:24 am Post subject:

This site has some gems hidden in the old threads.

seraph · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 2:32 am Post subject:

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

The Encyclopedia Electronica

...Galactica was already taken.

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 2:47 am Post subject:

Hmm.. you are right. I agree.

seraph · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 3:59 am Post subject:

Cyx
what's that bottle-shaped synth I see on your new avatar? I do not recognize it Exclamation

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 4:08 am Post subject:

That must be the new Korg "Analog Intruder Deluxe"?

seraph · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 4:10 am Post subject:

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 4:14 am Post subject:

It is a Korg product... so I guess you are pretty much correct about the inner workings of the product. I saw Turnkey has announced shipments of the "family pack" in time for XMAS.