In Search of a Concrete Music - Couverture souple

Schaeffer, Pierre

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520265742 ISBN 13 : 9780520265745

Editeur : University of California Press, 2012

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Pierre Schaeffer's "In Search of a Concrete Music" ("A la recherche d'une musique concrete") has long been considered a classic text in electroacoustic music and sound recording. Now Schaeffer's pioneering work - at once a journal of his experiments in sound composition and a treatise on the raison d'etre of "concrete music" - is available for the first time in English translation. Schaeffer's theories have had a profound influence on composers working with technology. However, they extend beyond the confines of the studio and are applicable to many areas of contemporary musical thought, such as defining an 'instrument' and classifying sounds. Schaeffer has also become increasingly relevant to DJs and hip-hop producers as well as sound-based media artists. This unique book is essential for anyone interested in contemporary musicology or media history.

Revue de presse :

"One of the most important and prophetic [books] written on music since World War II... Significant and readable."--Frieze "Completely changed how I hear the world and, after more than 30 years, I am still living with the consequences." --The Wire

"..the now unfrozen words of "In Search of a Concrete Music" can be finally shelved alongside McLuhan's "Understanding Media" (1964), Cage's "Silence" (1961) and John Berger's "Ways of Seeing" (1972) as one of the postwar period's most significant (and readable) grapplings with new artistic paradigms" --Rob Young, Frieze

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0520265742
• ISBN 13: 9780520265745
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 244