Written by a composer long immersed in new and experimental music, this book provides a tour of the music, technologies and people that have transformed how we make, hear and think about sound over the past fifty years.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. The Hidden Switch
2. I am Sitting in a Classroom
3. Worlds of Music
4. Four Ridiculously Large Speakers
5. Playing with Chips
6. The Infinite Amplification of Silence
7. Old Guard Avant Garde
8. Newcastle to Narvik
9. The Eden Before Apple
10. A Bright Red Electric Guitar
11. Devil's Music
12. Planes, Train and Step-Down Transformers
13. A Computer Walks into a Bar
14. We Were All Seated Around the Campfire
15. Still Lives
16. STEIM: IRCAM with a Human Face
17. Whistling in the Woods
18. Strange Heaven
19. Art School
20. Hardware Hacking
21. Salvage
22. The Missing Switch
23. Surprise Me