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Silence: lectures and writings
Hardback. English.
Published
Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2011
50th anniversary ed
Special edition of the book that revolutionized our understanding of how we make and experience art
The Ashgate research companion to experimental music
Hardback. English.
Published
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009
The recent resurgence of experimental music has given rise to a more divergent range of practices than has previously been the case. This book reflects...
The Oxford handbook of computer music
Hardback. English.
Published
New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009
This handbook provides a cross-section of the most field-defining topics and debates in the field of computer music today. From music cognition to pedagogy...
Electronic and experimental music
Paperback. English.
Published
New York; London: Routledge, 2008
3rd ed
The third edition of this history of technology and music incorporates a contemporary pedagogical design, offering a variety of learning aids to help...
No such thing as silence: John Cage's 4'33"
Hardback. English.
Published
New Haven, [Conn.]; London: Yale University Press, c2010
First performed at the midpoint of the 20th century, John Cage's '4'33"', a composition conceived of without a single note, is among the most celebrated...
Notations 21
Hardback. English.
Published
New York: Mark Batty; London: Thames & Hudson [distributor], c2009
Drawing inspiration from John Cage's 'Notations', this volume features illustrated musical scores from more than 100 composers from every continent, all...
Electronic and experimental music: pioneers in technology and composition
Paperback. English.
Published
New York; London: Routledge, 2002
2nd ed
The second edition of a classic text on the history of electronic music, this book has been thoroughly updated to present material on home computers and...
Xenakis: his life in music
Hardback. English.
Published
New York; London: Routledge, 2004
Xenakis: His Life in Musicis a full-length study of the influential contemporary composer Iannis Xenakis. Following the trajectory of Xenakis's compositional...
Experimental music: Cage and beyond
Paperback. English.
Published
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999
2nd ed
This account of experimental music from 1950 to 1970 traces the revolutionary attitudes that were developed towards concepts of time, space, sound, and...
Boring formless nonsense: experimental music and the aesthetics of failure
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Continuum, 2013
'Boring Formless Nonsense' intervenes in an aesthetics of failure that has largely been delimited by the visual arts and its avant-garde legacies. It...
