Music.columbia.edu/cmc/courses/g6610/fall2012/week4/Gendy3.pdf. For the Record: Adorno on Music in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility. Formalized Music Thought and Mathematics in Composition. GENDYN - Computer Music Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Summer, 2000), pp. 31-38. Henry Cowell, Bohemian (Music in American Life): Amazon.co.uk: Michael Hicks: Books. I bought this book as a person fascinated with Cowell's music.
I was quickly surprised to learn that this is a half-biography. How did the author approach the publisher? - "I'd like to publish a biography of a half of the life of Henry Cowell. The interesting half. " How did the publisher ever agree to such a project? In general, it seems that the half-biography is well-done. The weakest part of the book are the international activities of Cowell. The strongest part of the book is the analysis of Cowell's theoretical writing. As far as the morality charge and the rather outrageous sentence of 15 years, the author does a rather good job avoiding any kind of socio-political commentary, not feeling comfortable in any kind of gender studies, or historical sociology of gender, basic psychology of the closet, or even legal issues.
Xenakis in New York. "Waveforms" by Alex Ross The New Yorker, March 1, 2010 Many twentieth-century artists played with images of violence.
The Greek composer Iannis Xenakis, who lived from 1922 to 2001, was one of relatively few who experienced extreme violence at close range. American Experimental Music 1890-1940: Amazon.co.uk: David Nicholls: Books. Machine Songs V: Pierre Schaeffer: From Research into Noises to Experimental Music. Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series : Blixa Bargeld and Einstürzende Neubauten : German Experimental Music : Evading do-re-mi. Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the ... - Georgina Born. 05.1 Ryo Ikeshiro.pdf. Xenakis: His Life in Music - James Harley. Cracked media: the sound of malfunction by caleb kelly.
Music has been made by means of technology for nearly as long, if not exactly as long, as music has been made.
Except for the voice (as well as the effects of clapping, slapping, and snapping), the sounds we agree to designate as musical rely on the use of tools, whether those tools be sticks, synthesizers, banjoes, electric guitars, or flutes carved from the bones of whales. CTheory.net. Understanding Meta-Media Lev Manovich If we want to describe what new media does to old media with a single term, 'mapping' is a good candidate.
Software allows us to remap old media objects into new structures -- turning media into 'meta-media. The Computer Music Tutorial (Technology): Amazon.co.uk: Curtis Roads: Books. eContact! 8.4 - On Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music. Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music. The groundbreaking Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Continuum; September 2004; paperback original) maps the aural and discursive terrain of vanguard music today.
Rather than offering a history of contemporary music, Audio Culture traces the genealogy of current musical practices and theoretical concerns, drawing lines of connection between recent musical production and earlier moments of sonic experimentation. It aims to foreground the various rewirings of musical composition and performance that have taken place in the past few decades and to provide a critical and theoretical language for this new audio culture. Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art - Salome Voegelin. Listening to Noise and Silence engages with the emerging practice of sound art and the concurrent development of a discourse and theory of sound.
In this original and challenging work, Salomé Voegelin immerses the reader in concepts of listening to sound artwork and the everyday acoustic environment, establishing an aesthetics and philosophy of sound and promoting the notion of a sonic sensibility. A multitude of sound works are discussed, by lesser known contemporary artists and composers (for example Curgenven, Gasson and Federer), historical figures in the field (Artaud, Feldman and Cage), and that of contemporary canonic artists such as Janet Cardiff, Bill Fontana, Bernard Parmegiani, and Merzbow. Informed by the ideas of Adorno, Merleau-Ponty and others, the book aims to come to a critique of sound art from its soundings rather than in relation to abstracted themes and pre-existing categories.
Boring Formless Nonsense. Boring Formless Nonsense intervenes in an aesthetics of failure that has largely been delimited by the visual arts and its avant-garde legacies.
It focuses on contemporary experimental composition in which failure rubs shoulders with the categories of chance, noise, and obscurity. In these works we hear failure anew. We hear boredom, formlessness, and nonsense in a way that gives new purchase to aesthetic, philosophical, and ethical questions that falter in their negative capability. Reshaping debates on failure as an aesthetic category, eldritch Priest shows failure to be a highly dubious concept. The Aesthetics of Noise.
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Noise Music: A History: Amazon.co.uk: Paul Hegarty: Books. In Search of Lost Art: Kurt Schwitters’s Merzbau (Influence on Merzbow) Kurt Schwitters.
Picture with Light Center. 1919. Cut-and-pasted colored paper and printed paper, watercolor, oil, and pencil on board. Purchase. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn It was a gray, humid day in Hannover, Germany, and I was on a mission: to experience the Merzbau, a room-sized, living sculptural construction by artist Kurt Schwitters. But how do you experience something that doesn’t exist? Kurt Schwitters was an early 20th-century Dada artist whose elegant collages are a touchstone of MoMA’s collection. Schwitters’ art was more than just the collage object itself. The Hannover Merzbau by Kurt Schwitters. Schwitters worked on the Hanover Merzbau from around 1923 until 1937, when he fled to Norway to escape the threat of Nazi Germany.
One way is through photographs from the time. Noise: The Political Economy of Music - Jacques Attali. The Curves of the Needle - Theodor Adorno.