Thom Holmes

Electronic and Experimental Music (eBook, PDF)

Technology, Music, and Culture

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture, Sixth Edition, presents an extensive history of electronic music-from its historical beginnings in the late nineteenth century to its everchanging present-recounting the musical ideas that arose in parallel with technological progress.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429758447
• Artikelnr.: 58782647

Autorenporträt

Thom Holmes is a music historian and composer. He studied composition with Paul Epstein in Philadelphia, published the magazine Recordings of Experimental Music (1979-85), and worked with John Cage. He has recently been a member of Composers Inside Electronics, an electronic music performing ensemble dedicated to the realization of works by David Tudor. Holmes produces a personal blog, Noise and Notations, writes the blog Moog: A History in Recordings for the Bob Moog Foundation, and originated and maintains the Holmes Archive of Electronic Music, a curated collection of vintage electronic music recordings spanning the years 1930-85.

Inhaltsangabe

PART 1: ELECTRONIC MUSIC FUNDAMENTALS
1 What Is Electronic Music?
2 Listening to Electronic Music
3 How Electronic Music is Composed
4 Electronic Music Composition by Process
5 The Physics of Musical Sound
6 Analog and Digital Synthesis Basics
7 Computer Music Basics
8 Tape Composition and Sound Editing
9 MIDI, Noise Reduction, and Audio Compression Technologies
PART 2: HISTORY OF ELECTRONIC AND COMPUTER MUSIC
10 Earliest Experiments in Electronic Music (Pre-1920)
11 Electronic Music Performance Instruments (1920-1940)
12 The History of Audio Recording Technology
13 Edgard Varèse and The Listener's Experiment
14 Musique Concrète In France
15 Elektronische Musik in Germany
16 Other European Electronic Music Studios
17 John Cage in the United States
18 The Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, New York
19 The Cooperative Studio for Electronic Music, Ann Arbor
20 The Experimental Music Studio, University of Illinois
21 The San Francisco Tape Music Center
22 Electronic Music in Canada
23 Radiophonic Music in the United Kingdom
24 Electronic Music in Latin America
25 Electronic Music in Asia and Australia
26 Early Computer Music (1950-1969)
27 Computer Music (1970-1985)
PART 3: MAKERS OF VINTAGE ANALOG AND DIGITAL SYNTHESIZERS
28 Moog Analog Synthesizers
29 Buchla Analog Synthesizers
30 EMS Analog Synthesizers
31 ARP Analog Synthesizers
32 Other Analog Synthesizers
33 Digital Synthesizers and Samplers
PART 4: LIVE ELECTRONIC MUSIC AND CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES
34 Live Electronic Music - Foundations
35 Live Electronic Music - Historical Practices
36 Modern Turntablism
37 Contemporary Software and Synthesis
38 Eurorack
Appendix: Historic Studios of Electronic Music by World Region 1948-70