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Infinite Music
Adam Harper
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Description for Infinite Music
Paperback. A new system for imagining music, built on the infinite possibilities of twenty-first century technology. Num Pages: 234 pages. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 16. Weight in Grams: 234.
In the last few decades, new technologies have brought composers and listeners to the brink of an era of limitless musical possibility. They stand before a vast ocean of creative potential, in which any sounds imaginable can be synthesised and pieced together into radical new styles and forms of music-making. But are musicians taking advantage of this potential? How could we go about creating and listening to new music, and why should we? Bringing the ideas of twentieth-century avant-garde composers Arnold Schoenberg and John Cage to their ultimate conclusion, Infinite Music proposes a system for imagining music based on ... Read more
In the last few decades, new technologies have brought composers and listeners to the brink of an era of limitless musical possibility. They stand before a vast ocean of creative potential, in which any sounds imaginable can be synthesised and pieced together into radical new styles and forms of music-making. But are musicians taking advantage of this potential? How could we go about creating and listening to new music, and why should we? Bringing the ideas of twentieth-century avant-garde composers Arnold Schoenberg and John Cage to their ultimate conclusion, Infinite Music proposes a system for imagining music based on ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
234
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
Ropley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846949241
SKU
V9781846949241
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About Adam Harper
Adam Harper discusses aesthetics and criticism in music, art and life on his blog Rouge's Foam. He studies musicology, composes music and has written for Wire magazine.
Reviews for Infinite Music
Infinite Music is a super clear, open-ended philosophy of sound and music for the post-rave generation. Essential reading for sonic modernists everywhere. (Cristian Vogel) A timely analysis of musical evolution at a moment when many practitioners have become fixated on the past and thinkers have found themselves unable to locate possible futures. (Steve Goodman, author of Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, ... Read more