Music-Genres & Styles-Electronic

Sound coming from outside the field of vision, from somewhere beyond, holds a privileged place in the Western imagination. When separated from their source, sounds seem to manifest transcendent realms, divine powers, or supernatural forces. According to legend, the philosopher Pythagoras lectured to his...

With this manual, written "by hand" rather than with artificial intelligence, you'll learn how to produce professional music with Logic Pro 12, covering all the production phases in independent chapters, from the initial draft to the final mastering and publishing of your song. Hundreds...

Author: Ryan StachISBN-13: 9798195877323Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2026Pages: 206Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

Author: Clearview DerekISBN-13: 9798195735463Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/05/2026Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.30d

The untold story of Canadian electronic music from post-war labs to global pop.For decades, the history of Canadian electronic music has existed in fragments--footnotes, anecdotes, and half-remembered stories preserved by enthusiasts and archivists. A Nation of Tinkerers gathers these scattered pieces into the first...

Take your music production skills from basic ideas to fully arranged, professional-quality tracks with this complete, AI-enhanced guide to beat creation and arrangement.This book is more than just a manual, it's a step-by-step system designed to help you think, create, and produce like a...

'Glitch' is a stylistic mannerism within electro-acoustic composition that emerged in the late 1990s. Glitch, or 'microsound', as it is known in the academic context, observes the conventions of music concrète, drawing on material sampled from the real world, and fashioning this into sonic...

LEARN ABLETON LIVE 12, SOLVE COMMON PROBLEMS, AND BUILD YOUR FIRST TRACK-FASTAbleton Live 12 can feel overwhelming until you learn it in the right order. Ableton Live 12 for Beginners is a practical, step by step guide built for people who want to make...

The lead singer on Supercell's eponymous first album is Hatsune Miku-a Vocaloid character created by Crypton Future Media with voice synthesizers. A virtual superstar, over 100,000 songs, uploaded mostly by fans, are attributed to her. Supercell is a Japanese creator music group with the...

The Process That Is the World grapples with John Cage not just as a composer, but as a philosopher advocating for an ontology of difference in keeping with the kind posited by Gilles Deleuze. Cage's philosophy is not simply a novel method for composition,...

This comprehensive book lays out the conceptual approaches, tools and techniques for performing electronic music, from DJing, DAWs, MIDI controllers, traditional instruments, live sound design, hardware setups, custom software and hardware to live visuals, venue acoustics and live show promotion. Author: Kirsten HermesISBN-10: 0367340747ISBN-13:...

Ableton Live 12 can feel overwhelming when you're just getting started-but it doesn't have to be.This beginner-friendly guide is designed to help you move confidently from opening the software for the first time to creating complete, polished tracks. Every concept is explained clearly, without...

Queer communities have long transformed parties into something powerful: spaces where care flourishes, injustice gets challenged, and new worlds are danced into being. But today, DJs command huge fees while behind-the-scenes workers earn below minimum wage. Corporations profit from our culture while communities that...

This Handbook explores and critiques a new sonic reality - one which unearths new narratives that chart embryonic practices from the early twentieth century that have developed in parallel with accepted narratives of electronic music.Today's musical and artistic practices within technology-based music represent radical...

Rave Alone! A Coming of Age Story: The Original Screenplay includes the movie synopsis, full script, and details about the production process from inception to now. The motion picture is set in Miami in 2001. It is about a 15-year-old boy who blackmails his...

The Music of Sounds and the Music of Things is a book about sonic sampling and DIY (or DIT, that is, do it yourself or do it together) instrument making as two highly innovative yet inclusive forms of 21st century music making and is...

In this book, David Temperley addresses a fundamental question about music cognition: how do we extract basic kinds of musical information, such as meter, phrase structure, counterpoint, pitch spelling, harmony, and key from music as we hear it? Taking a computational approach, Temperley develops...

Do you want to make professional-sounding music but feel overwhelmed every time you open Logic Pro?Getting Started With Logic Pro is a clear, beginner-friendly guide designed to take you from no experience to confidently creating, recording, mixing, and exporting your own music-step by step.Written...

Put your paws up for this show-stopping little book of inspiring quotes, incredible trivia and iconic facts about the one and only Lady Gaga Ever since her noughties debut, it's been clear a star was born! Pioneering, profound and outrageous in equal measure, Lady...

Musicians begin formal training by acquiring a body of musical concepts commonly known as musicianship. These concepts underlie the musical skills of listening, performance, and composition. Like humans, computer music programs can benefit from a systematic foundation of musical knowledge. This book explores the...

Ready to turn your ideas into professional-sounding music even if you're just starting out!Whether you're an aspiring music producer, songwriter, content creator, or hobbyist, learning a powerful digital audio workstation can feel overwhelming at first. Logic Pro 12 is packed with incredible tools, but...

A comprehensive presentation of the techniques and aesthetics of composition with sound particles.Author: Curtis RoadsISBN-10: 0262681544ISBN-13: 9780262681544Publisher: MIT PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/20/2004Pages: 409Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.72lbsSize: 8.98h x 7.98w x 0.80d

Spatial sound has long been a topic of interest in electro-acoustic music. With continual technical advancements of methods to achieve spatialisation of sound, an increase in the realisation of spatial sound ideas can be achieved, while concurrently giving birth to new concepts in this...

Author: Jane Dominguez,Lido PublishingISBN-13: 9798245845258Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/06/2026Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.25d

Cubase 15 Pro doesn't slow creativity - confusion does.This book is written to remove that friction completely.If you've ever opened Cubase and felt overwhelmed by its depth, this guide meets you exactly where the problem starts: turning a powerful DAW into a fast, reliable...

Author: Robert MargouleffISBN-10: 1916829287ISBN-13: 9781916829282Publisher: Jawbone PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/19/2026Pages: 264Format: Paperback

Marking the fortieth anniversary of the duo's first release--"West End Girls"--Pet Shop Boys Volume presents the group's entire visual output to date in a contemporary literary format.Author: Chris Heath,Philip HoareISBN-10: 0500027471ISBN-13: 9780500027479Publisher: Thames & HudsonLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/07/2026Pages: 592Format: Hardcover

ILLEGAL: Rave Flyers of the 90s is a 500-page, encyclopedic collection of rave & party promotional flyers from the birth of EDM in America.DB Burkeman, formerly known as DJ DB, went back to the rave promoters from his 90s gigs to collect material for...

In 1980, a quirky Japanese drum machine hit the scene-and the world hasn't stopped thumping since.Imagine a box of circuits, dismissed as a flop, that birthed the seismic boom of hip-hop's golden age, the hypnotic haze of acid house raves, and the trap anthems...

Synthesizers are experiencing a massive resurgence, and for good reason! Many musicians are now seeking a more manual, hands-on approach to creating electronic sounds, moving away from purely digital interfaces. This growing interest has spurred instrument makers to release an incredible variety of new...

Rusty Egan, pioneering DJ and musician, helped shape the New Romantic movement by introducing electronic music to Britain's club scene.Rusty Egan is one of the most iconic and influential figures in the electronic music industry. His career began in the music industry as a...

Audio Paper offers a conceptual and practice-based approach for researchers across a wide range of disciplines to integrate auditory culture into their published work in the form of the audio paper. The audio paper is an academic text presented as an audio production. Introducing...

Electro swing is a relatively recent musical style and scene which combines the music of the swing era with that of the age of electronic dance music. Chris Inglis considers key questions about electro swing's place in contemporary society, including what it may mean...

The Roland x0x Series: A History of Early Roland Synthesizers and Drum Machines from SH-101 to TR-909 offers an authoritative but accessible investigation of how the design of these most influential musical instruments is shaped by technological factors, institutional contexts, market forces and imagined...

Author: B.ISBN-13: 9798242598690Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/05/2026Pages: 150Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32d

Unlock the full potential of Ableton Live 12 with this comprehensive, beginner-friendly guide. Whether you're a complete newcomer or an intermediate user looking to level up your music production skills, this book covers everything you need to create professional-quality tracks.Inside, you'll learn how to:...

A cultural history of global electronic dance music countercultures, Technomad explores the pleasurable and activist trajectories of post-rave. The book documents an emerging network of techno-tribes, exploring their pleasure principles and cultural politics. Attending to sound system culture, electro-humanitarianism, secret sonic societies, teknivals and...

Enter the world of computer-aided composition. It is easy with Phil Winsor's Computer Composer's Toolbox. Discover the enormous creative and time-saving potential of computerized music composition. Whether you are a musician hoping to see what the computer can do for you or a computer...

It is clear that the digital age has fully embraced music production, distribution, and transcendence for a vivid audience that demands more music both in quantity and versatility. However, the evolving world of digital music production faces a calamity of tremendous proportions: the asymmetrically...

Critical of technologically determinist assumptions underpinning current educational policy, Victoria Armstrong argues that this growing technicism has grave implications for the music classroom where composition is often synonymous with the music technology suite. The use of computers and associated compositional software in music education...

Pink Noises brings together twenty-four interviews with women in electronic music and sound cultures, including club and radio DJs, remixers, composers, improvisers, instrument builders, and installation and performance artists. The collection is an extension of Pinknoises.com, the critically-acclaimed website founded by musician and scholar...

In recent decades, experimental music has flourished outside of European and American concert halls. The principles of indeterminacy, improvisation, nonmusical sound, and noise, pioneered in concert and on paper by the likes of Henry Cowell, John Cage, and Ornette Coleman, can now be found...

Crafting a dynamic relationship between feminism and music-making, this book offers a queerly original analysis of Oliveros's work as a musical form of feminist activism and argues for the productive role of experimental music in lesbian feminist theory.Author: Martha MockusISBN-10: 0415973759ISBN-13: 9780415973755Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

This is the ultimate guide to the new digital world of music. Cutting through myths, it offers a step-by-step introduction to what's possible for performers, composers, and listeners-addressing legal and ethical issues as well as the nuts and bolts of what equipment to buy...

The Art of Digital Orchestration explores how to replicate traditional orchestration techniques using computer technology, with a focus on respecting the music and understanding when using real performers is still the best choice.Using real-world examples including industry-leading software and actual sounds and scores from...

Long considered one of the key books on the well-informed audio engineer's shelf, Sound System Engineering provides an accurate, complete, and concise tool for all those involved in designing, implementing, and testing sound reinforcement systems. This new fourth edition includes eight new chapters leading...

UK Rave Flyers 1988-1989 is a deluxe book showcasing original flyers from the breakthrough years of UK acid house. Sourced from the phatmedia archive and beyond, it captures the raw energy of a scene that exploded from underground parties into a nationwide movement. Featuring...

The story of STEIM and the first sensor instruments in digital music. The STEIM foundation in Amsterdam was a music studio radically dedicated to the live, physical performance of electronic sound. From 1969 to 2021, the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music supported artists in building...

Step into the Beat: A Journey to Becoming a Master DJ Imagine mastering the art of captivating audiences, where every beat you drop sends waves of excitement through a crowd, and every mix you produce becomes the soundtrack to unforgettable nights. This book is...

At the end of his life, Pierre Schaeffer commented that his musical and sound experiments had attempted to go beyond 'do-re-mi'. This had a direct bearing on EinstÃ1/4rzende Neubauten's musical philosophy and work, with the musicians always striving to extend the boundaries of music...