'Sound Unseen' explores acousmatic sound - a sound that one hears without seeing its cause. Pierre Schaeffer, the inventor of musique concrète, in his Traité des objets musicaux, first popularized the term 'acousmatic'. After an introduction, the first chapter provides a thoroug…
by Wilson, Scott, Collins, Nick, (Nicholas), Schedel, Margaret
fromCambridge introductions to music
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 these recent developments by providing an overview of current thinking and presenting detailed case studies that document the w…
"In the 1960s, a team of Stanford musicians, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists used computing in an entirely novel way: to produce and manipulate sound and create the sonic basis of new musical compositions. This group of interdisciplinary researchers at the nasc…
Featuring analytical discussions or descriptions of about 150 different pieces of electroacoustic music by women composers in the United States, this book attempts to discuss the achievements of women as composers of experimental and avant-garde music from the 1930s. It has a bi…
"David Tudor is remembered today 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 of indeterminate graphic scores and his …
SuperCollider is the most important domain-specific audio programming language of the past decade, with potential applications that include real-time interaction, installations, electroacoustic pieces, generative music & audiovisuals.
