Live wires : a history of electronic music

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Label

Live wires : a history of electronic music

Title remainder

a history of electronic music

Statement of responsibility

Daniel Warner

Creator

• Warner, Daniel, 1954-

Author

• Warner, Daniel, 1954-

Subject

• Electronic music -- History and criticism
• Music and technology

Language

eng

Summary

"We live in an electronic world. Electronic sounds and electronic music have long permeated our sonic landscape. What began as the otherworldly sounds of the film score for the 1956 film Forbidden Planet and the rarefied, new timbres of Stockhausen's Kontakte a few years later, is now a common soundscape in technology, media and an array of musical genres and subgenres. More people than ever before can produce and listen to electronic music, from isolated experimenters, classical and jazz musicians, to rock musicians, sound recordists and the newer generations of electronic musicians making hip-hop, house, techno and ambient music. Increasingly we are listening to electronic sounds, finding new meanings in them, experimenting with them and rehearing them as listeners and makers. Live Wires explores how the five key electronic technologies - the tape recorder, circuit, computer, microphone and turntable - revolutionized musical thought. Featuring the work of major figures from Schaeffer, Varese, Xenakis, Babbitt and Oliveros to Eno, Keith Emerson, Grandmaster Flash, Juan Atkins and Holly Herndon, Live Wires presents many of the powerful musical ideas that are being recycled, rethought and remixed by some of the most electrifying composers and musicians today."--Dust jacket

Cataloging source

ERASA

Dewey number

786.709

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

ML1380

LC item number

.W37 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography