Music-Genres & Styles-Electronic

Designed for introductory courses in electronic music and multimedia, Digital Audio and Acoustics for the Creative Arts presents the fundamental concepts of musical acoustics, psychoacoustics, electronics, digital audio, audio recording, and communication among devices via the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) and Open Sound...

Bringing together a diverse group of world-leading professionals across post-production film sound and electroacoustic music, Art of Sound explores the creative principles that underpin how sonic practitioners act to compose, tell stories, make us feel and communicate via sound.Author: Andrew Knight-Hill, Emma MargetsonISBN-10: 0367755882ISBN-13:...

Featuring a foreword from Annie Mac In Welcome to the club, Manchester legend DJ Paulette shares the highs, lows and lessons of a thirty-year music career, with help from some famous friends. One of the Ha輅enda's first female DJs, Paulette has scaled the heights...

From the cacophonous surrounds of London to the sea stacks of Orkney, via the abandoned military facilities of the Suffolk coast and the watery expanses of the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, from the quarries and neolithic sites of Snowdonia and the wide open skies...

Depeche Mode's 101 is, at first glance, a curious thing: a live double-album by a synth band. A recording of its "Concert for the Masses," 101 marks the moment when doomy, cultish, electronic Depeche Mode, despite low American album sales and a lack of...

Experiencing Organised Sounds investigates a wide horizon of sound-based works using a template consistently across its 16 studies. It aims to address means of increasing appreciation and understanding related to the experience of sonic creativity (music involving any sounds, not just musical notes).Author: Leigh...

A collection of writing by Simon Reynolds, centered on music that seemed, in its moment, to prefigure the Future Simon Reynolds's first book in eight years is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow. Sounds that prefigure pop music's future--the...

DO NOT BUY THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS Seriously, just don't do it. This book is full of poor grammar, highly irregular spelling, and pointless descriptions of terrible music on an outdated medium. If you DO know what this is then OMG...

Explore the captivating journey of synthwave through "The History of Synthwave" by Herkimer Throckmorton. From its roots in '80s electronic music to the global spread of this retro-futuristic genre, this comprehensive guide delves into subgenres like Outrun, Dark Synthwave, and Dreamwave. Uncover the influence...

For the first time, in The Sound of the Machine, Bartos speaks candidly and with wit and humour about his life in Kraftwerk, a band widely acknowledged as being one of the most important in modern music.Some of the most beautiful, era-defining music has...

Effective music production can be a challenge.This is where The Music Producer's Guide comes in. Each book is designed to demystify a music production concept, bringing professional results to your tracks.Within The Music Producer's Guide to EQ, you will embark on a transformative journey,...

Author: Martin RoachISBN-10: 1906191174ISBN-13: 9781906191177Publisher: Music Press BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/24/2010Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.48d

Electronic Music from Scratch is a complete crash course in the joys of musical circuitry. Taking inspiration from famous instruments in electronic music history, this guide shows readers how to create dozens of whimsical, unexpected, and incredibly usable musical instruments. Create oscillators that compose...

Author: MomusISBN-10: 1665197889ISBN-13: 9781665197885Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/08/2020Format: CDWeight: 0.50lbs

Just like Memphis and Rock'n'Roll, Dusseldorf is regarded as the Mecca for electronic music. The capital of North Rhine-Westphalia became the centre of an analog electronic movement from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. This is the oral account of the city's most influential...

Though ubiquitous today, available as a single microchip and found in any electronic device requiring sound, the synthesizer when it first appeared was truly revolutionary. Something radically new--an extraordinary rarity in musical culture--it was an instrument that used a genuinely new source of sound:...

Author: Illenium, Frank MarraffinoISBN-10: 8886560311ISBN-13: 9798886560312Publisher: Z2 ComicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2023Pages: 80Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 10.31h x 6.77w x 0.47d

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...

Unsayable Music presents theoretical, critical and analytical reflections on key topics of contemporary music--including acoustic, electroacoustic, and digital music--and audiovisual and multimedia composition. Six essays by Paulo C. Chagas approach music from different perspectives such as philosophy, sociology, cybernetics, musical semiotics, media, and critical...

For some people, at some times, in some places, on some drugs, dance music can be a gateway to transformative, even transcendent experiences. With the help of skilled DJs, dancers can reach euphoric states, discard their egos, and feel social barriers dissolve. Dance floors...

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...

Paused in Cosmic Reflection is the definitive story of The Chemical Brothers. Told in the voices of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, with contributions from friends and collaborators, it is fully illustrated with 30 years of mind-bending visuals.Author: The Chemical BrothersISBN-10: 1399600079ISBN-13: 9781399600071Publisher: MobiusLanguage:...

Electronic music since 1980 has splintered into a dizzying assortment of genres and subgenres, communities and subcultures. Given the ideological differences among academic, popular, and avant-garde electronic musicians, is it possible to derive an aesthetic theory that accounts for this variety? And is there...

Thousands of shows have opened on Broadway. Why do we remember some and not others? The musical theatre repertory is not composed of titles popular in the theatre but by those with successful cast recordings, movie versions, or even illegal bootlegs on YouTube. The...

EDM DJ & Producer MasterclassGrab your chance to own this two book bundle by Tommy Swindali. Covering Everything you need to know about Electronic Dance Music Production, Mixing and DJing. Including: Electronic Dance Music Production: The Advanced Guide on How to Produce Music for...

Everything You Need To Know About Making Music In One Place!Included in this 2 Book Collection are: Music Production For Beginners 2022+ Edition. Music Production, Songwriting & Audio Engineering, 2022+ Edition: The Professional Guide. If you're serious about taking your Music Skills to a...

This book illuminates the development of electronic and computer music in East Asia, presented by authors from these countries and territories (China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan).The scholars bring forward the cultural complexities and conflicts involved in their diverse encounters with new music technology and...

When the Canadian Electronic Ensemble (CEE) began as a group of students at the University of Toronto in 1972, they performed with cumbersome, finicky analog instruments and DIY logistics, never sure if everything would work as intended. Today's CEE sound comes from a sophisticated...

From the acclaimed author of ArtSex Music comes a vital meditation on womanhood, creativity andself-expression, and a revelatory exploration into the lives of three visionaryartists. "A fascinating tale of theinterlinking lives of three legendary trailblazers."SALENA GODDEN"Re-sisters emanates anenthralling power."JUDE ROGERS, MOJO"Cosey Fanni Tutti has...

In this issue's cover story, we go inside how an FX team built a working R/C prop of the famous disembodied hand "Thing" from Netflix's Wednesday, and how you can bring your own props and robots to life with channel mixing, telemetry, and on-the-fly...

An ABC book celebrating the golden era of UK Garage spanning 1997-2001 from Ayia Napa to So Solid Crew and many more.A blend of fun and nostalgia for any UK Garage head, playing on the traditional ABC book. Taking a trip down alphabet street...

Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry explores the subculture's emergence as a deviant subculture. This text analyzes how industry professionals, fans, and public officials helped usher in a new age of EDM, arguing that while the defining features of the subculture...

First Floor started small. At first it was just a newsletter, an outlet where veteran electronic music journalist Shawn Reynaldo could write and share his ideas without having to contend with outside editors or cater to social media algorithms. It was a blank canvas,...

Winner of the 2015 PMIG Outstanding Publication Award from the Society of Music Theory The DJs and laptop performers of electronic dance music use preexistent elements such as vinyl records and digital samples to create fluid, dynamic performances. These performances are also largely improvised,...

The history of India's first electronic music studio founded in 1969 at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad by David Tudor. Subcontinental Synthesis explores the history of India's first electronic music studio, founded in 1969 at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad...

The Creative Electronic Music Producer examines the creative processes of electronic music production, from idea discovery and perception to the power of improvising, editing, effects processing, and sound design. Featuring case studies from across the globe on musical systems and workflows used in the...

The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music establishes EDM's place on the map of popular music. The book accounts for various ambiguities, variations, transformations, and manifestations of EDM, pertaining to its generic fragmentation, large geographical spread, modes of consumption and, changes in technology. It focuses...

For some people, at some times, in some places, on some drugs, dance music can be a gateway to transformative, even transcendent experiences. With the help of skilled DJs, dancers can reach euphoric states, discard their egos, and feel social barriers dissolve. Dance floors...

In Acoustic Profiles, author Randolph Jordan proposes a new model for image-sound analysis that incorporates the vocabulary and methods of environmental studies, specifically exploring the potential of a model based on acoustic ecology. Jordan uses close readings of films to connect the diverse fields...

Welcome to The Music Producer's Guide, your comprehensive guide to creating incredible music that stands out in a crowded industry. This series of books is your ultimate resource for developing your music production skills and taking your music to the next level. Each book...

Become a Competent Music Producer in 365 Days is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to the fundamentals of music production. Over the course of a year, this book takes the reader through ten chapters covering mixing, equalization, compression, reverb, delay and modulation, automation, vocals, synthesis,...

Are you dreaming of playing the guitar like a pro? Are you a beginner looking for simple and effective methods to learn the basics of guitar chords and notes?Look no further!This comprehensive guide is designed to help aspiring guitarists embark on their musical journey...

Gary Numan was one of the first pop artists to place equal emphasis on image and sound, a true Warholian artist who advanced on Andy's light and sound experiments with The Velvet Underground, by bringing a real grandeur to live performances, and by changing...

This book is about the relationship between media, communication and globalization, explored through the unique empirical study of electronic music practitioners' use of the global social media: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. To understand the significance of the emerging nexus between social media and...

This book is dedicated to the topic of performance practice of electroacoustic music, focusing mainly on the production of RAI's Studio di Fonologia in Milan between the 1950s and 1970s. It is the result of an in-depth dialogue between musicology and musical practice, presenting...

This is the first book to develop both the theory and the practice of synthesizing musical sounds using computers. Each chapter starts with a theoretical description of one technique or problem area and ends with a series of working examples (over 100 in all),...

This oral autobiography of the underground experimentalist also serves as a history of the 1980s tape and electronic music scene in the USSince 1980, Jeph Jerman (born 1959)--sound artist, field recordist, percussionist and visual artist--has released over 200 sound works, under his own name,...

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...

The writer, musician and curator Tot Taylor once observed that the word 'ritual' is already present in the word 'spiritual'. That combination of material practice and the transcendent can be found within the strange combination of records discussed in this publication. With music, one...

The electronic medium allows any audible sound to be contextualized as music. This creates unique structural possibilities as spectrum, dynamics, space, and time become continuous dimensions of musical articulation. What we hear in electronic music ventures beyond what we traditionally characterize as musical sound...