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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913231125Author Ian HelliwellFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Velocity PressPublisher Velocity Press

Understanding Video Game Music develops a musicology of video game music by providing methods and concepts for understanding music in this medium. From the practicalities of investigating the video game as a musical source to the critical perspectives on...

From the acclaimed author of Art Sex Music comes a vital meditation on womanhood, creativity and self-expression, and a revelatory exploration into the lives of three visionary artists.'A fascinating tale of the interlinking lives of three legendary...

In Generation Ecstasy, Simon Reynolds takes the reader on a guided tour of this end-of-the-millenium phenomenon, telling the story of rave culture and techno music as an insider who has dosed up and blissed out. A celebration of rave's quest for the...

A creative genius and prolific inventor, Leon Theremin almost single-handedly launched the field of electronic music in 1920. The theremin--the only musical instrument that is played without being touched--created a sensation worldwide and paved the way...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857367853Author Trinity College London PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London Press

The arrival of a new style of music and a new type of drug in 1988 ignited a revolution. To coincide with the 25th anniversary of the second summer of love, this is the definitive story of the seismic movements in music and youth culture that changed the...

Born in Moscow, Wladimir Kaminer emigrated to Berlin in the early '90s when he was 22. Russian Disco is a series of short and comic autobiographical vignettes about life among the emigres in the explosive and extraordinary multi-cultural atmosphere of...

This Companion is the first academic introduction to the 1960s/70s 'Krautrock' movement of German experimental music that has long attracted the attention of the music press and fans in Britain and abroad. It offers a structured approach to this...

Pierre Schaeffer's "In Search of a Concrete Music" ("A la recherche d'une musique concrete") has long been considered a classic text in electroacoustic music and sound recording. Now Schaeffer's pioneering work - at once a journal of his experiments in...

In the space of just five years, Twice have taken the K-Pop world by storm. With hundreds of millions of views on YouTube, a sell-out world tour and record-breaking album sales under their belts, Twice have well and truly earned their place in...

We live in an electronic world. Electronic sounds and electronic music have long permeated our sonic landscape. What began as the otherworldly sounds of the film score for the 1956 film Forbidden Planet and the rarefied, new timbres of Stockhausen's...

Special Sound traces the fascinating creation and legacy of the BBC's electronic music studio, the Radiophonic Workshop, in the context of other studios in Europe and America. The BBC built a studio to provide its own avant-garde dramatic productions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913689582Author Paul PurgasFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647423070Author Samantha DurbinFormat PaperbackImprint She Writes PressPublisher She Writes PressWeight(grams) 140g

A landmark history of early radio in Germany and the quest for broadcast fidelityWhen we turn on a radio or stream a playlist, we can usually recognize the instrument we hear, whether it's a cello, a guitar, or an operatic voice. Such fidelity was not...

Over the last century, developments in electronic music and art have enabled new possibilities for creating audio and audio-visual artworks. With this new potential has come the possibility for representing subjective internal conscious states, such as...

Performing Electronic Music Live lays out conceptual approaches, tools, and techniques for electronic music performance, from DJing, DAWs, MIDI controllers, traditional instruments, live sound design, hardware setups, custom software and hardware, to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739996550Author Ashley HewittFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Stereo Output LimitedPublisher Stereo Output LimitedWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

Though ubiquitous today, available as a single microchip and found in any electronic device requiring sound, the synthesizer when it first appeared was truly revolutionary. Something radically new--an extraordinary rarity in musical culture--it was an...

Modular Synthesis: Patching Machines and People brings together scholars, artists, composers, and musical instrument designers in an exploration of modular synthesis, an unusually multifaceted musical instrument that opens up many avenues for exploration...

Originally published in 2000 by Editions Allia in France, The Song of the Machine is a richly detailed graphic novel based on the history of electronic music. From the disco of the 1970's to the rave culture of the 1990's, The Song of the Machine ...

David Tudor is remembered today in two guises: as an extraordinary pianist of post-war avant-garde music who worked closely with composers like John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen and as a founding figure of live-electronic music. His early realization...

Making its first huge impact in the 1960s through the inventions of Bob Moog, the analog synthesizer sound, riding a wave of later developments in digital and software synthesis, has now become more popular than ever.Analog Synthesizers charts the...

From the pages of EKeyboardE magazine EKeyboard Presents Synth GodsE spotlights artists who did much more than just play synthesizers: they changed the course of music history and inspired generations. Featuring in-depth profiles of leading synthesists...

So much, popular and scholarly, has been written about the synthesizer, Bob Moog and his brand-name instrument, and even Wendy Carlos, the musician who made this instrument famous. No one, however, has examined the importance of spy technology, the Cold...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913231033Author Junior TomlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Velocity PressPublisher Velocity Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915316219Author Mark GoodallFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress

Contemporary electronic music has splintered into a dizzying assortment of genres and subgenres, communities and subcultures. Given the ideological differences among academic, popular and avant-garde electronic musicians, is it possible to derive an...

'A grade, A list oral history' The Sunday Times'Eminently, moreishly readable' The New Statesmen'A rollicking read' Mail on Sunday'Entertaining' Observer The nineties was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of...

Big Beat was once one of the biggest, but ironically, perhaps most misunderstood musical movements of the Mid-Late 1990's, lead by some of the biggest artists the Electronic Dance Music scene has ever seen, such as Fatboy Slim (AKA Norman Cook), The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905792511Author F.C. JuddFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Foruli ClassicsPublisher Foruli LimitedWeight(grams) 161gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913231330Author Sarah GinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Velocity PressPublisher Velocity Press

Inside Computer Music is an investigation of how new technological developments have influenced the creative possibilities of composers of computer music in the last 50 years. This book combines detailed research into the development of computer music...

Pink Noises brings together twenty-four interviews with women in electronic music and sound cultures, including club and radio DJs, remixers, composers, improvisers, instrument builders, and installation and performance artists. The collection is an...

Korngold in America offers new ways of listening to the film scores and post-Hollywood concert works of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897--1957), a Viennese-raised Austro-Hungarian composer who left Europe for Hollywood in the mid-1930s to write for Warner...

SuperCollider, an open-source, cross-platform software program for real-time sound synthesis and algorithmic composition, was created by James McCartney in 1996 and has evolved to become a powerful tool for music composition and research. Written by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913231958Author Kirk FieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Velocity PressPublisher Velocity Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399962889Author Jim ButlerFormat HardbackPage Count 242Imprint Disco Pogo LtdPublisher Disco Pogo Ltd

Four Ways of Hearing Video Game Music offers a novel account of the ways in which video games invite us to hear and listen to their music. By taking a phenomenological approach to characterize music in video games, author Michiel Kamp asks what it is we...