Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music

Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music attempts to map the sonic and discursive terrain of the new culture of sound that has emerged over the past half-century--and, particularly, in the last decade. This new audio culture largely ignores the conventional hierarchy that distinguishes "art music" from "popular music" and the segregation of music into genres such as "classical music," "jazz," "rock," and "dance music." Instead, it builds networks and alliances across these boundaries and reveals that cutting-edge music and sound art today is happening in an experimental zone where all these musics meet and cross-fertilize. 
The tests included in this volume are drawn from a heterogenous array of sources. Statements by composers, improvisers, and producers appear alongside essays by theorists and critics who provide lines of connection and historical contexts. The book explores musical practices such as open form composition, improvised music, DJ Culture, experimental music and electronica, offering a snapshot and geneaology of today's most vital and radical music. 
The book includes writings by: Jacques Attali, John Cage, Simon Reynolds, Brian Eno, Glenn Gould, Umberto Eco, Michael Nyman, Ornette Coleman, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and many others.

Arts & Photography

Daniel Warner

Christoph Cox

Music

Continuum Intl Pub Group

Copublished with Bard College s Center for Curatorial Studies, Realism Materialism Art (RMA) introduces a diverse selection of new realist and materialist philosophies and examines their ramifications on the arts. Thirty-five essays cutting across thematic interests and modes of investigation offer a snapshot of an emerging and rapidly changing set of ideas and practices in art, philosophy, culture, theory and science, among other fields. RMA serves as a primer on speculative realism, neo-materialist theories, object-oriented ontologies and neo-rationalist philosophies. Despite their differences, these philosophical positions propose that thought can and does think outside itself, that reality can be known without its being shaped by and for human comprehension. They explicitly challenge dominant assumptions of cultural practice and theoretical inquiry and open up new domains of research and artistic inquiry. Also included is a collection of images curated by Jenny Jaskey and Alicia Ritson.

Realism Materialism Art

Suhail Malik

Sternberg Press

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