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In Audio Culture, editors Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner bring to readers an educated, timely and much needed critical perspective of our contemporary musical experience through the writings of some of the most important musical thinkers, including Jacques Attali, John Cage, Umberto Eco, Brian Eno, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Edgar Varese, just to name a few. Audio Culture offers a collection of essays that filter a range of experimental musical practices in an unusually refreshing way. Maybe not since Gregory Whitehead s reader Wireless Imagination (1994) which recorded the silent history of audio, has literature on this subject sufficiently captured the attention of both the sound enthusiasts and academics at the same time. The result is an elegant anthology that compiles the manifestos of old masters such as Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo and statements by Edgard Varese and John Cage while also spotlighting an interview on integration of technology into artistic production by Christian Marclay It is to the credit of the book that it keeps up with the most interesting key texts and ideas in the field and does not make a huge demand on our Windows-culture-inflicted patience. The book is ambitious enough to cater to a broader audience and manages to respond to the numerous demands made upon it. makes the writings very accessible to readers who are not familiar with the author or topic under discussion. Texts and ideas come from a variety of sources Audio Culture succinctly captures the last fifty years that has been the most fascinating times for avant-garde experimentation, performances and sonic landscapes, By treating the existing rhizomic dots and lines between myriads of practices in a progressive fashion, it gives the last decade its attention and maybe its future vocabulary. Rhizome.org, 1/28/05
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Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music attempts to map the aural and discursive terrain of vanguard musical culture today. Over the past few decades, a new audio culture has emerged, a culture of making and thinking about music and sound that disregards conventional categories and oppositions still operative in the academy and the mainstream music industry alike. Via writings by key philosophers, cultural theorists and composers, this book explores the interconnections among such forms as Minimalism, Indeterminacy, musique concrete, Improvised Music, the Classical Avant Garde, Experimental Music, Avant-Rock, Dub Reggae, Ambient Music, Hip Hop, and Techno. They demonstrate the way these musics constantly cross-pollinate each other, transgressing generic boundaries, and how contemporary composers, producers, and musicians now work within complex networks of association and influence: New York art rockers Sonic Youth release a CD of works by John Cage and other avant-garde experimentalists; Bjork interviews Karlheinz Stockhausen for a music magazine and Derek Bailey, the septuagenarian founder of Free Improvisation, collaborates with Drum 'n' Bass producers. Each chapter opens with an introduction that situates and interconnects the writings to follow and concludes with an extensive bibliography and discography. The book also includes a comprehensive glossary of terms and phrases such as 'Ambient,' 'Dub,' 'just intonation,' and 'modal improvisation.'
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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I wish I'd read this one when doing an essay for an MA module called 'Creative Music, Media and the Arts'. It has really put alot of things into perspective for me and I now feel like I'm beginning to gain a solid understanding of the wider issues surrounding the advent of recording
technology. The best thing about this book is that the collection of writings are presented in such a way as to allow the reader to make their own judgements. Quite often each successive piece contains contradicting judgments on relating and same issues giving a very convenient opportunity for objectivity. It helps the reader to gain an understanding of the world of sound on its own terms and not in terms of individual stylistic values emminating from supposedly disperate cultures.
technology. The best thing about this book is that the collection of writings are presented in such a way as to allow the reader to make their own judgements. Quite often each successive piece contains contradicting judgments on relating and same issues giving a very convenient opportunity for objectivity. It helps the reader to gain an understanding of the world of sound on its own terms and not in terms of individual stylistic values emminating from supposedly disperate cultures.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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It's quite simple really - this book is an ideal and essential place for anyone wanting to learn more about the background of interesting sound and music and art since the age of electricity [roughly]. Great for dipping into and finding out fascinating ideas, facts and histories from some of the most important people to have written about the wide ranging and specific subject matter.... Doesn't matter if you are a beginner or a professor - everyone will learn from this book if their minds are open and their ears alert... Great great great......essential text book number one [ along side not may others in the field of soundart - very welcome arrival]
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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this book is jam packed full of information and is split neatly (maybe more so than i was expecting) into sections such as 'The Open Work' and 'Noise, Sound, Silence'.
At the beginning of each essay the editors have given a brief account of the author (who in most cases practice(d) work with sound, i.e. Derek Bailey, John Cage, Luigi Russolo, Brian Eno, Steve Reich, Tony Conrad, John Zorn etc etc etc, the list goes on and on!)
The book has 57 essays (admitidly i haven't read everone just yet) which gives a wide scope of different perspectives on the subject.
The title says it all really 'Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music' if this title interests you then the book will! It does exactly what it says on the tin! But don't get confused, this book describes 'modern music' (correctly) as changes that are of interest in audio culture that have appeared through the avant garde, jazz, noise and electronic age. Do not think that 'modern music' refers to Usher or Britney Spears cause you will be disappioted.
Yeah, well worth reading, comprehensive book for anyone interested in the subjects.
At the beginning of each essay the editors have given a brief account of the author (who in most cases practice(d) work with sound, i.e. Derek Bailey, John Cage, Luigi Russolo, Brian Eno, Steve Reich, Tony Conrad, John Zorn etc etc etc, the list goes on and on!)
The book has 57 essays (admitidly i haven't read everone just yet) which gives a wide scope of different perspectives on the subject.
The title says it all really 'Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music' if this title interests you then the book will! It does exactly what it says on the tin! But don't get confused, this book describes 'modern music' (correctly) as changes that are of interest in audio culture that have appeared through the avant garde, jazz, noise and electronic age. Do not think that 'modern music' refers to Usher or Britney Spears cause you will be disappioted.
Yeah, well worth reading, comprehensive book for anyone interested in the subjects.
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