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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Frode Weium; Tim Boon |
ISBN: | 1944466088 9781944466084 9781935623106 1935623109 |
OCLC Number: | 952547071 |
Description: | xvii, 293 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. |
Contents: | Series preface / Martin Collins -- Foreword / Brian Eno -- Introduction -- Bellowphones and blowed strings : the auxeto-instruments of Horace Short and Chales Algernon Parsons / Aleksander Kolkowski and Alison Rabinovici -- Artifacts in performance / Katy Price -- Technology and authenticity : the reception of the Hammond organ in Norway / Frode Weium -- Mimics, menaces, or new musical horizons? Musicians' attitudes toward the first commercial drum machines and samplers / Sarah Angliss -- The magentic tape recorder : recording aesthetics in the new era of schizophonia / Ragnhild Brøvig-Hanssen -- Stockhausen meets King Tubby's : the transformation of the stepped filter into a musical instrument / Sean Williams -- The oramics machine and the origins of British electronic and computer music / Mick Grierson and Tim Boon -- Musical instruments and user interfaces in two centuries / Tellef Kvifte -- Austrian pioneers of electronic musical instruments / Peter Donhauser -- New and rediscovered musical instruments rediscovered / David Toop. |
Series Title: | Artefacts series, v. 8. |
Responsibility: | edited by Frode Weium and Tim Boon. |
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Publisher Synopsis
Material Culture and Electronic Sound explores how material culture has affected music and sound more generally. Technological innovations in music originally created to solve specific problems sometimes resulted in broadly changing the landscape or music more generally. Boon and Weium offer an anthology of 10 scholarly papers that provide case studies of technological innovations and their effects on musical culture. Contributors include composers, performers, musicologists, and scientists, providing diverse insights into the nature of music. The emphasis clearly is more on music than sound generally, although one paper on the magnetic tape recorder reaches a bit farther out. * Communication Booknotes Quarterly * Read more...

