'Boring Formless Nonsense' intervenes in an aesthetics of failure that has largely been delimited by the visual arts and its avant-garde legacies. It...
Starting with the guerrilla media tactics of industrial music in the late 1970s, this book charts an ongoing trend in electronic music, including an increasing...
PublishedNew York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009
'Terry Riley's 'In C'' argues that the work holds its place in the canon because of the very challenges it presents to 'classical' music. Carl examines...
PublishedMiddletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, c2012
Composer and peformer Alvin Lucier brings clarity to the world of experimental music as he takes the reader through more than a hundred groundbreaking...
PublishedBerkeley, Calif.; London: University of California Press, 2010
This work is a seminal source for materials on the heyday of experimental music and arts. The book documents crucial changes in performance practice and...
Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture provides a thorough treatment of the relevant history behind the marriage of technology...
Electronic and Experimental Musicis a second edition of a well-known text on the history of electronic music. Holmes' original book, first published in...
The year was 1963 and from Birmingham to Washington, D.C., from Vietnam to the Kremlin to the Berlin Wall, the world was in the throes of political upheaval...