Re: [microsound] Electronic Music Reading

[Bill Ashline <ashline@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 17:50:27 +0100, Info Intervall-audio
<info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> maybe this is a bit off-topic, but could anyone recommend stuff to read
> (print and web) on electronic music? 

There's a new book edited by Christoph Cox called Audio Culture.  You
may also want to check out the writings of Xenakis as well as Curtis
Roads' book on Microsound, which occasionally gets discussed here. 
The Sub Rosa a-historical compilations are quite informative in the
accompanying booklets.  AMM percussionist Eddie Prevost has a
provocative book out in the field called Minute Particulars, written
very much in an Adornoesque vein.  You should also check out the books
of David Toop, Kodwo Eshun, and Simon Reynolds.  Other than that,
check out the published work of many of the list members, including
Kim Cascone, Glenn Bach, Trace Reddell, Tobias van Veen, Ian Andrews
and many others.  Do some google searching and you'll find plenty of
work by these folks and it's all quite good.  Electronic music is a
broad category.  What you want to read depends a lot on whether you're
interested in more beat-oriented electronica or in the more
experimental electronic and electroacoustic music.  If you like any of
the electronic Japanese improv, the three magazines on the Improvised
Music from Japan label are pretty essential.  Another interesting and
provocative young writer goes by the name of Mattin.  Hope that helps.

-- 
It is part of the mechanism of domination to forbid recognition of the
suffering it produces, and there is a straight line of development
between the gospel of happiness and the construction of camps of
extermination so far off in Poland that each of our own countrymen can
convince himself that he cannot hear the screams of pain--Theodor
Adorno

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