[microsound] fwd: Leonardo Announces: LMJ13 Now Available!

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Groove, Pit and Wave: Recording, Transmission and Music
Leonardo Music Journal Volume 13
edited by Nicolas Collins

Despite Thomas Edison's assumption that the gramophone was nothing 
more than a sonic autograph album---suitable only for playing back 
the speeches of famous people---over the last 100 years recording has 
radically transformed the composition, dissemination and consumption 
of music. Similarly, the businesslike dots & dashes of Morse and 
Marconi have evolved into a music-laden web of radio masts, dishes, 
satellites, cables and servers. Sound is encoded in grooves on vinyl, 
particles on tape and pits in plastic; it travels as acoustic 
pressure, electromagnetic waves and pulses of light.

The rise of the DJ in the last two decades has signaled the arrival 
of the medium as the instrument---the crowning achievement of a 
generation for whom tapping the remote control is as instinctive as 
tapping two sticks together. Turntables, CD players, radios, tape 
recorders (and their digital emulations) are played, not merely 
heard; scratching, groove noise, CD glitches, tape hiss and radio 
interference are the sound of music, not sound effects. John Cage's 
1960 Cartridge Music has yet to enter the charts, but its sounds are 
growing more familiar.

Leonardo Music Journal Volume 13 (LMJ13) and this accompanying 
special issue of LEA focuses on the role of recording and/or 
transmission in the creation, performance and distribution of music: 
contributing their thoughts on these topics here in LEA are 
Christopher Burns and Matthew Burtner, Michael Bussière, Marlena 
Corcoran, Trace Reddell and Tobias C. van Veen. In the print issue, 
these topics are discussed by Peter Manning, Yasunao Tone, Douglas 
Kahn with Christian Marclay, Nick Collins, David First, Matthew 
Burtner, Guy-Marc Hinant, Caleb Stuart, Álvaro Barosa, Holger 
Schulze, Sérgio Freire and Philip Sherburne.

LMJ13 includes Splitting Bits, Closing Loops: Sound on Sound, an 
audio CD curated by Philip Sherburne. The CD features pieces from an 
eclectic mix of composers/performers: AGF, M. Behrens, Alejandra & 
Aeron, DAT Politics, Stephan Mathieu, Francisco López, Institut fuer 
Feinmotorik, Janek Schaefer, Steve Roden, Scanner, and Stephen 
Vitiello.

LEONARDO MUSIC JOURNAL
The LMJ series is devoted to the aesthetic and technical issues in 
contemporary music and sonic arts. Currently under the editorship of 
Nicolas Collins, each thematic issue features artists/writers from 
around the world, representing a wide range of stylistic viewpoints, 
and includes an audio CD or CD-ROM. LMJ is available by subscription 
from the MIT Press.

See http://lmj.mit.edu for more information and subscription links.

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