Jihel
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Post by Jihel on Sept 30, 2020 13:07:19 GMT
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Post by spacedog on Sept 30, 2020 13:08:13 GMT
Here You may find a book about history of electronic music Lots of interesting material there, many thanks... I love the way it just hangs at 1990, which seems like yesterday. |
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Post by rockysmalls on Sept 30, 2020 13:15:30 GMT
the Dan Lander ‘Sound by Artists’ is a particularly fantastic book.. great stuff by Alvin Lucier , Annea Lockwood etc in there .. and one page is an actual Flexidisk record ( by Christian Marclay ) ... one of the nicest books i’ve ever been given... followed closely by Wheldon’s The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film  |
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Post by arti on Sept 30, 2020 13:33:43 GMT
Here You may find a book about history of electronic music Lots of interesting material there, many thanks... I love the way it just hangs at 1990, which seems like yesterday. And wasn't it?  To this day anything from the 90's for me is new, relatively new or at least recent Funny habbit of thinking I've obtained in the 90s itself and I guess it will stay with me untill I'll be in my 90s myself |
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Lugia
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Post by Lugia on Oct 1, 2020 1:51:41 GMT
'The Ambient Century' by Mark Prendergast Some caveats about Prendergast's book...for one thing, it's shot full of errors. A colleague of mine taught a course at the U of Oregon on ambient musical forms and used this book as the text...but ALSO, he had to distribute an extensive addendum with the text which went into all of Prendergast's errors and corrected them. Also, Mark Prendergast really didn't feel as if he needed to be that precise; I confronted him personally (after its release) about all of the stuff in the book that had been poorly researched or misrepresented, and his take was that he didn't really give a flying f**k that this book had as much inaccuracy in it as it does. In fact, he seemed awfully full of himself about his research skills...which I didn't think was warranted at all, because if the book was any indication, he'd be sent back to "Remedial Research Skills 101" in academia for handing in a spottily-accurate mess of that sort. |
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Post by blackhairrolledindriedblood on Oct 1, 2020 21:59:39 GMT
Guess I know what I'll be doing with that one then...  |
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Post by Lugia on Oct 2, 2020 1:25:13 GMT
Source was an essential American anthology of avant-garde music that came out from the mid-1960s into the early 1970s. It's a treasure-trove of info about the tech, ideas, concepts, and aesthetics of that period, much of which is still super-relevant today.
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Post by blackhairrolledindriedblood on Oct 2, 2020 15:48:54 GMT
For some personal reflections by great pioneers and artists in the practice of Field Recording (for those with an interest in supplementing their modular activity) I really enjoyed 'In The Field - The Art of Field Recording' - no practical or technical tips here, but a fascinating insight into the activities of such people as Annea Lockwood, Hildegard Westerkamp, Jana Winderen, Lasse Marc Riek and many more.
'In The Field - The Art of Field Recording' by Cathy Lane & Angus Carlyle
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'Mars By 1980' by David Stubbs because it reminds me of growing up and because every time I meet him and he hasn't got a clue who I am, he is very passionate about music and always great for a chat.
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Post by rockysmalls on Oct 2, 2020 17:00:09 GMT
Source was an essential American anthology of avant-garde music that came out from the mid-1960s into the early 1970s. It's a treasure-trove of info about the tech, ideas, concepts, and aesthetics of that period, much of which is still super-relevant today.
this looks like a great book, though Mr Kahn has a tendency to take a whole 600 page book to make one statement ..I presume he’s just written the intro.. or edited it? and mr Austin did all the leg work way back ,, pretty cheap used on US amazon... until you see the 25 dollar shipping to get it to the UK.. is there a kindle/pdf of this out there somewhere? today is actually my birthday 🎁.. there’s been a lot of cake... and new pyjamas ... but no books!!  |
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Post by Lugia on Oct 3, 2020 1:26:58 GMT
Source was an essential American anthology of avant-garde music that came out from the mid-1960s into the early 1970s. It's a treasure-trove of info about the tech, ideas, concepts, and aesthetics of that period, much of which is still super-relevant today.
this looks like a great book, though Mr Kahn has a tendency to take a whole 600 page book to make one statement ..I presume he’s just written the intro.. or edited it? and mr Austin did all the leg work way back ,, Neither. "Source" was an annual-ish anthology, with writings, scores, and recordings (yep! the original issues all came with 10" vinyl of several pieces discussed in each volume). So what you get there isn't Kahn, but the original articles, and the CD set has the 10" tracks, nicely remastered. Like I noted, it's an amazing time capsule of the period it's from, and an excellent reference volume on the sixties avant-garde movement. |
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Post by arti on Oct 18, 2020 17:02:42 GMT
Here is the book by Daphne Oram "An individual note of music, sound and electronics"
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namke
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Post by namke on Oct 18, 2020 18:37:56 GMT
Here is the book by Daphne Oram "An individual note of music, sound and electronics" I remember reading that as a kid (it was in our local library) and being fascinated by the machines — there was a kickstarter a couple of years or so back to reprint it; of course I had to get it! |
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namke
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Post by namke on Oct 18, 2020 20:09:13 GMT
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Post by spacedog on Oct 18, 2020 20:39:38 GMT
Here is the book by Daphne Oram "An individual note of music, sound and electronics" I should say "thank you" properly - I'm really happy to be reading this book. If you are interested in hearing some of what she did, you can find it here (that's my link, valid for seven days). |
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Post by rockysmalls on Oct 18, 2020 22:46:13 GMT
i threw a good few quid at the kickstarter,, to have me and a friend named in the back ... I felt it was important to have the reprint.. and i wanted to be part of the ‘historic occasion’ though i have to say i was ( ironically and not without some shame ) slightly miffed that they got so much kickstarter cash that it became a big fancy designed hardback... i much preferred the original cover design and thin floppy sleeved item... i thought it was going to be a much more faithful re-issue.. of course the contents are faithfully reproduced .. though they don’t reprint the original cover even inside for some odd reason. Daphne! what a dreamer |
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namke
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Post by namke on Oct 19, 2020 22:04:56 GMT
i threw a good few quid at the kickstarter,, to have me and a friend named in the back ... I felt it was important to have the reprint.. and i wanted to be part of the ‘historic occasion’ though i have to say i was ( ironically and not without some shame ) slightly miffed that they got so much kickstarter cash that it became a big fancy designed hardback... i much preferred the original cover design and thin floppy sleeved item... i thought it was going to be a much more faithful re-issue.. of course the contents are faithfully reproduced .. though they don’t reprint the original cover even inside for some odd reason. Daphne! what a dreamer Ah, I only ever knew the hardback version (just like the PDF linked above — that's what they had in my library way back when!) — didn't realise that there was a softcover version! |
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Post by arti on Oct 20, 2020 8:03:51 GMT
Here is the book by Daphne Oram "An individual note of music, sound and electronics" I should say "thank you" properly - I'm really happy to be reading this book. If you are interested in hearing some of what she did, you can find it here (that's my link, valid for seven days). Ha Now is my turn to thank You! It's great to hear the famous electronic music pioneer with her amazing instrument! I think the simmiliar idea (to paint the sound) was developed in the 30s in Soviet Union. |
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To this day anything from the 90's for me is new, relatively new or at least recent 
