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...

The Real Daft Punk embodies the dynamic practices and principles that launched Daft Punk to superstardom presenting the essence and gift of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. A profound reflection of the tidal ebbs and flows of Dance Music intersected with divergent thinking....

This book takes the reader step-by-step through the process of developing synthesizer modules. Covering everything from theory to practice and using the intuitive VCV Rack and its open source C++ API, even the least experienced reader will learn to master efficient DSP coding to...

Making Synthwave: How an Online Music Community Invented a Genre documents the journey of an online community in their formation of the synthwave genre.Taking an emic perspective that delivers a behind-the-scenes, access-all-areas telling of synthwave's story from the very beginning to the mid 2020s,...

UNLOCK THE MAGIC OF YOUR STYLOPHONE IN JUST DAYS!Author: Louis A. ColleyISBN-13: 9798292034988Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/11/2025Pages: 154Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.33d

Noise has become a model of cultural and theoretical thinking over the last two decades. Following Hegarty's influential 2007 book, Noise/Music, Annihilating Noise discusses in 16 essays how noise offers a way of thinking critical resistance, disruptive creativity and a complex yet enticing way...

Making Synthwave: How an Online Music Community Invented a Genre documents the journey of an online community in their formation of the synthwave genre.Author: Jess Blaise WardISBN-10: 1032732032ISBN-13: 9781032732039Publisher: Focal PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/13/2025Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.62d

K-pop, or Korean pop, is a South Korean genre of music that incorporates influences from a range of musical genres, including rap, R&B, dance, pop, and reggae. Korean artists, also known as idols, have become some of the most popular global superstars, with thousands...

Anonymous, hidden, encrypted, incomprehensible - these are the forces and sounds that tell us the unheard in music. Iconic Frankfurt techno and experimental label -Mille Plateaux- returns with a new anthology of texts written by a collective of voices who assembled around the resurrection...

Everything you need to know about making music in one place! 2024 & Beyond!Not so long ago music production was only available to the rich and famous. However, these days it's now possible to produce professional sounding music from your own home.In fact, you...

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,...

Behind the scenes in techno and electronic music studios in two of the genre's city hotspotsThe studios of DJs and electronic music producers can be found in darkened basements, abandoned factories, garages and backyards, in converted lofts, shared houses or teenage bedrooms. Inside the...

Rave may be the middle word in travel, but when raving reporter Kirk Field created the world's first holiday company catering exclusively to clubbers, the Rave New World threw everything it could at him: 9/11, volcanic ash clouds, suspicious customs officers, avalanches, North Sea...

In this new edition of the classic text on the evolution of electronic music, Peter Manning extends the definitive account of the medium from its birth to include key developments from the dawn of the 21st century to the present day. The scope of...

DISCO! Music, Image, Dance takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring disco's untold stories--sonic, visual, and kinetic--from its popular heyday to its many afterlives. The book attests to disco's irrepressibility in cultural practices from the 1970s to the 2020s, tracing its histories and instantiations as...

DISCO! Music, Image, Dance takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring disco's untold stories--sonic, visual, and kinetic--from its popular heyday to its many afterlives. The book attests to disco's irrepressibility in cultural practices from the 1970s to the 2020s, tracing its histories and instantiations as...

This collection brings together fifteen years of notes, essays, and compositions from a working life in experimental music. Originally intended as academic research, it became a personal project driven by curiosity rather than credentials. The texts explore music-making across tools and formats: from live...

Arab Techno for the People analyses electronic music soundscapes as a field site to explore the lived experiences of cosmopolitan, Arab individuals living in Toronto and Montreal, Canada. This book seeks to move readers-and Canadians more broadly-to a more nuanced understanding of the misinterpellation,...

On September 18, 2016, Keith Robinson, a pioneering figure in the free party scene, tragically lost his life in the River Thames. To say Keith lived an eventful life would be an understatement. Keith Robinson, known affectionately to his friends as 'Keef', was the...

(Berklee Press). Get the most out of Digidesign's Pro Tools software with this comprehensive home studio guide that will show you how to create the highest quality recordings by honing your production skills and engineering techniques. With a complete explanation of the entire production...

This new book reviewed and authorized by Alesis Corporation will help you master the QS Keyboard, 6.1 thru 8.1! It contains information-packed chapters written using a simple "do this, do that" approach that gets you performing and recording with the QS MIDI keyboard quickly....

Susan George explores the computer recognition of music notation, its interpretation & use within various application contexts. This includes research in the field of image processing & pen-based computing, representation languages & web-based applications.Author: Susan Ella GeorgeISBN-10: 1591402980ISBN-13: 9781591402985Publisher: IRM PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2003Pages: 374Format:...

Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music is the definitive history of how a city danced its pain away. In Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music, music journalist Al Shipley draws from 18 years' worth of interviews with dozens of DJs,...

Description: Discover the captivating story behind one of the most influential and groundbreaking music genres of our time in "Rhythms of the Future: The History of Techno Music." Take a deep dive into the pulsating beats, hypnotic rhythms, and electrifying energy that have defined...

What is hardcore? It means many things to many people, and they're all correct. It's best described as a feeling, an attitude, and a way of life. Hardcore is niche, schismatic, and a global phenomenon that refuses to die. Because hardcore will never die....

Stories about new musical instruments are often told as quests for new kinds of sounds. The Composer's Black Box asks, What happens when new musical instruments produce not only new sounds but also new dynamics of musical agency and control? And what consequences do...

A pulsing, personal, and fabulous ride through the music and culture of an iconic nightclub scene. Fascinated by Berlin nightclub Berghain's strange techno and stranger goings-on, Liam Cagney journeys through techno's history, from Detroit to Tokyo, and explores Berlin club culture in all its...

Noise has become a model of cultural and theoretical thinking over the last two decades. Following Hegarty's influential 2007 book, Noise/Music, Annihilating Noise discusses in sixteen essays how noise offers a way of thinking about critical resistance, disruptive creativity and a complex yet enticing...

Whether you're a musician with no previous experience in computer programming, or a computer hobbyist interested in learning about music, Automated Music Composition has something to offer. The book contains BASIC language tutorials for beginning programmers; an overview of computer music applications; a systematic...

Designing Audio Circuits and Systems is a comprehensive guide to audio circuits and systems design. Beginning with analog audio circuit design basics that a novice can understand, this book offers insight all the way through to in-depth design techniques for many different audiophile and...

Stories about new musical instruments are often told as quests for new kinds of sounds. The Composer's Black Box asks, What happens when new musical instruments produce not only new sounds but also new dynamics of musical agency and control? And what consequences do...

Collaboration, Engagement, and Tradition in Contemporary and Electronic Music offers insights into practices at the forefront of modern music making and is built on a rich collection of concerts and talks, representing over a decade of artistic insight and creative practice showcased at the...

What does a one-hour contemporary orchestral piece by Georg Friedrich Haas share with a series of glitch-noise electronic tracks by Pan Sonic? This book proposes that, despite their differences, they share a particular understanding of sound found across several quite distinct genres of contemporary...

It was as if American television audiences discovered the musical in the early 21st century. In 2009 Glee took the Fox Network and American television by storm with the unexpected unification of primetime programming, awkward teens, and powerful voices spontaneously bursting into song. After...

Have you ever heard a tune so great you'd spend your whole life trying to find it again? The legendary follow up to Junglist, Bass Instinct takes us on odyssey across '90s London as a young black man and his extended family of friends,...

A thrilling and tumultuous, behind-the-scenes account of house music in NYC.The Beat, the Scene, the Sound follows DJ Disciple and his behind-the-scenes account of how DJs, promoters, fans, and others transformed house music from a DIY project into an international sensation-dive into the glitzy...

From massive raves sprouting around the London orbital at the turn of the 1990s to events operated under the control of corporate empires, EDM (Electronic Dance Music) festivals have developed into cross-genre, multi-city, transnational mega-events. From free party teknivals proliferating across Europe since the...

Music Composition book for Pianists or instruments utilizing the Grand Staff and voice or instruments using treble clef. This 8.25" x 11" composition book contains 100 manuscript pages, 6 Systems of Treble and Bass for notation and composition. Black ink, printed on 60 pound...

Close The App, Make The Ting is a collection of ideas shared by Elijah that began in July 2021, as the Covid 19 lockdowns were ending in the UK. They started as simple notes questioning what the music and creative scenes would look like...

Let out your inner party animal and rave on with this fun-loving, 3-inch, miniature desktop collectible! Includes Multiple Special Effects: 3" cat figurine on a light-up base that plays music and dances at the push of a button Illustrated Miniature Book: Includes a miniature...

Author: Eliane RadigueISBN-10: 1953691226ISBN-13: 9781953691224Publisher: Blank Forms EditionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2025Pages: 407Format: Paperback

Five years after it was first published, Matt Anniss's critically acclaimed alternative history of UK dance music in the acid house era is returning to stores in updated and expanded form. Boasting even more interviews, sharpened analysis, strengthened arguments, an updated recommended listening list...

Discover the Rhythms of Serenity: Dive Into the Heart of the Lofi MovementIn the bustling rhythm of modern life, there exists a sound, a movement, quietly revolutionizing the way we unwind, study, and connect. The Lofi Revolution: Unwinding to the Sound of Now offers...

Subtle Body Press is proud to bring you the ultimate multi-modal and multisensory experience with Type Rider, the latest trip from the mind of Scott T. Horowitz and his talented atelier of visual and sonic collaborators: a multimedia excursion combining Scott's prose and poetry...

Most guitarists today think of the USA as the land of the guitar. Classical guitars come from Spain but rock, jazz and folk guitars must surely be American? They know the 'great' names - Gibson, Epiphone, Fender, Gretsch, Martin. How many of them know...

They say nothing good happens after midnight, but in the case of creativity, that's just not so. The night fosters a different kind of creativity: something urgent, spontaneous, carved out of necessity. Tracking the past, present and future of this complex, often contradictory dynamic....

A global history of dance music since the 1950s. Transatlantic Drift explores the emergence and evolution of nightclubs and electronic dance music from the 1950s onward, tracing its rhythmic journey across Europe, North America, and the Caribbean. Katie Milestone and Simon A. Morrison show...

This study of Nintendo's five landmark music scores offers new insights into video game music composition and creativity with limited technology. Faced with severe technological constraints on system memory, composers of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) sought ways to disguise repetition in music that...

Featuring a foreword from Annie Mac An inspiring memoir-manifesto from one of the UK's leading DJs. In Welcome to the club, Manchester legend DJ Paulette shares the highs, lows and lessons of her thirty-year music career, with insights from some famous friends. As one...

Mastering Electronic Dance Music is a guide to the sonic considerations of EDM audio. Written by a successful Apple-approved mastering engineer, it introduces readers to all the techniques behind mastering electronic dance music (EDM).Beginning with the essentials of preparation, the book addresses the nature...