Waubonsee Community College

Sound unbound, sampling digital music and culture, edited by Paul D. Miller

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

phonodiskillustrations

index present

non fiction

Sound unbound

bibliography

165478021

edited by Paul D. Miller

sampling digital music and culture

If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, Sound Unbound is about the remix--how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines between what an artist can do and what a composer can create. In Sound Unbound, Rhythm Science author Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid asks artists to describe their work and compositional strategies in their own words. These are reports from the front lines on the role of sound and digital media in an information-based society. "Press 'play, '" Miller writes, "and this anthology says 'here goes.'" The groundbreaking mix CD that accompanies this book features Nam Jun Paik, the Dada Movement, John Cage, Sonic Youth, and many other examples of avant-garde music. Most of the CD's content comes from the archives of Sub Rosa, a legendary record label that has been the benchmark for archival sounds since the beginnings of electronic music [Publisher description]

An introduction, or my (ambiguous) life with technology / Steve Reich -- In through the out door: sampling and the creative act / Paul D. Miller -- The future of language / Saul Williams -- The ecstasy of influence: a plagiarism mosaic / Jonathan Lethem -- Roots and wires remix: polyrhythmic tricks and the black electronic / Erik Davis -- The life and death of media / Bruce Sterling -- Un-imagining utopia / Dick Hebdige -- Freaking the machine: a discussion about Keith Obadike's sexmachines / Keith & Mendi Obadike -- Freeze frame: audio, aesthetics, sampling, and contemporary multimedia / Ken Jordan and Paul D. Miller -- A theater of ideas: an interview with Steve Reich and Beryl Korot on Three tales / David Allenby -- Quantum improvisation: the cybernetic presence / Pauline Oliveros -- The ghost outside the machine / Scanner aka Robin Rimbaud -- The musician as thief: digital culture and copyright law / Daphne Keller -- Integrated systems: mobile stealth unit / Beth Coleman and Howard Goldkrand -- An interview with Moby / Lucy Walker -- Zing! Went the strings / Joseph Lanza -- Renegade academia / Simon Reynolds -- The world of sound: a division of Raymond Scott Enterprises / Jeff E. Winner -- From hip-hip to flip-flop: black noise in the master-slave circuit / Ron Eglash -- South Africa's rhythms of resistance / Lee Hirsch -- The virtual breeding of sound / Manuel DeLanda -- Zoom: mining acceleration / Liminal Product: Frances Dyson and Douglas Kahn -- An interview with Alex Steinweiss / Carlo McCormick -- Stop, hey, what's that sound? / Ken Jordan -- Permuting connections: software for dancers / Scott deLahunta -- On improvisation, temporality, and embodied experience / Vijay Iyer -- Spin the painting: an interview with Nadine Robinson / Alondra Nelson -- Camera Lucida: three-dimensional sonochemical observatory / Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand -- Fear of a Muslim planet: hip-hop's hidden history / Naeem Mohaiemen -- Three pieces / Chuck D -- Bells and their history / Brian Eno -- What one must do: comments and asides on musical philosophy / Daniel Bernard Roumain -- An interview with Pierre Boulez / Hans Ulrich Obrist and Philippe Parreno -- Adh'an: the sounds of an islamized orthodoxy / Ibrahim Quraishi -- Theatre of the spirits: Joseph Cornell and silence / Catherine Corman -- Where did the music go? / Jaron LanierCompact disc contents. Cool Noises / RadioMentale and Matthew Herbert -- Once Loved/A Footnote to 'Howl' (DJ Spooky Remix) / Martyn Bates, Allen Ginsberg -- Le buste (DJ Spooky Remix) / Jean Cocteau -- Imagination / Sun Ra -- Untitled in CoF Minor/A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson (DJ Spooky Remix) / Mikhail, Gertrude Stein -- Scratch Battle / DJ Spooky vs. Rob Swift -- The Creative Act/Interview with George Heard Hamilton/Boujeloud (Solo Drums)/I Could Never Make That Music Again / Marcel Duchamp, The Master Musicians of Joujouka/RadioMentale -- The Paperwork Explosion / Raymond Scott -- Perpetual Next/Pop Titles 'You' / Alter Echo, Pamela Z -- Sarah (Los Angeles Soundtrack)/I Could Never Make That Music Again / Liam Gillick, RadioMentale and Aphex Twin -- Eolian Episode/Gnossiene (DJ Spooky Dub Version) / James Joyce, Erik Satie -- Reed Phase / Steve Reich -- Cika-Laka/Cool Noises/Bbb / Shukar, RadioMentale, Raoul Hausmann -- Dias Dias Dias (Spoken by Caetano Veloso)/Above the Earth/Contacte / Augustos de Campos, Bill Laswell, To Rococo Rot -- Rozart Mix / John Cage -- Pour Finir avec le Jugement de Dieu (To Have Done with God's Judgment) (DJ Spooky Remix) / Antonin Artaud -- One Laptop Theme / DJ Spooky -- The Spilled Cup (DJ Spooky Remix) / Susan Deyhim -- General Motors : Futurama (Interstitial) / Raymond Scott -- Erratum Musical (Score for Three Voices)/Voyage for Three / Marcel Duchamp, George Lewis and Aki Takase -- Ghost Dub/Le Surréalisme et les Questions / Bill Laswell, René Magritte -- The First Set- Area 4 (Solo)/A Little Noise in the System (Moog System) / Anthony Braxton and Evan Parker, Pauline Oliveros -- // (DJ Spooky Remix) / Bora Yoon -- Cinqétudes de bruits : Étude violette / Pierre Schaeffer -- The Need to Be / Daniel Bernard Roumain and Ryuichi Sakamoto -- Music in Fifths / Phillip Glass -- Poème électronique / Edgard Varèse -- Concret PH / Iannis Xenakis -- One Minute / Ryoji Ikeda -- Audience (DJ Spooky Remix) / Sonic Youth -- Aftermath of Creations Dub (in Three Parts)/Dong Lim / Alter Echo, Ge-te Do-pe -- Dorian Reeds/Aftermath of Creations Dub (in Three Parts) / Terry Riley, Alter Echo -- Corale/FTP> Bundle/Conduit 23 / Luigi Russolo, DJ Spooky -- Rumba Lu Georgel/I Know the Power of Words / Fanfare Savale, Vladimir Mayakovsky -- Pilgrim's Song (Trala Shepa)/Kala / Droma, Trilok Gurtu and Bill Laswell -- Hommage à John Cage / Nam Jun Paik -- Mandolin/Acid Bassline / Morton Subotnick, DJ Spooky -- Mali Mal Hal M'Halmaz/Boujeloud (Solo Drums)/Dada-Sprüche / The Master Musicians of Joujouka, Hans Arp -- Koli Stance/Anna Blume / Sub Swara, Kurt Schwitters -- Week End/Ache Lhamo / Walter Ruttmann, Troupe from Taschingang -- Bendix 1 : The Tomorrow People / Raymond Scott -- I Can't Look for You/The Palaces of Gesar's Family (DJ Spooky Remix) / Martyn Bates, Trinlem -- Incantation for Tape / Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky -- Time ... Dot(3) / Carsten Nicolai -- The Western Land / William S. Burroughs and Iggy Pop with Techno Animal

Sampling digital music and culture