Re: [microsound] Sound Ideas

[Stephen Hastings-King <roachboy@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi aden: i teach a course on contemporary practices in experimental
music at the university of pennsylvania and am quite interested in
your book as well....i have been using chanan's little book "repeated
takes" as a primer on these questions but have grown bored with it, so
would be pleased if yours is a text that i could use in its stead.  so
the same question as christopher asked you....
btw when did it come out?

thanks.

stephen


On 7/15/05, chris mcnamara <mcnafong@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Aden,
> 
> that sounds like a great book. I teach digital media at the University
> of Michigan and have developed a couple of courses on sound and image
> integration in contemporary practice. Any chance I could snag a preview
> copy - it might be something that I would make required reading when I
> offer the course again.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Christopher McNamara (Thinkbox)
> Thinkbox
> 
> Program in Film & Video Studies - University of Michigan
> On Jul 15, 2005, at 10:36 AM, Aden Evens wrote:
> 
> > Dear microsounders,
> >
> > Pardon the self-promotion. I've published a book that I believe many
> > of you would be interested to hear about. Sound Ideas: Music,
> > Machines, and Experience (University of Minnesota Press) is a book
> > about the ways in which technologies, especially digital technologies,
> > shape our experiences of sound. It considers the experiences of
> > listener, performer, composer, acoustician, and more, asking how
> > technology (including musical instruments, stereos, computers, etc.)
> > intersects with aesthetics in these experiences.
> >
> > This is an academic book, though it is readable by any thoughtful
> > person. No particular background is necessary. However, the book
> > crosses so many disciplines (philosophy, cultural theory, mathematics,
> > computer science, musicology, psychoacoustics) that every reader will
> > likely find some sections challenging. I suspect that the members of
> > this list-serv are especially qualified to read it (and I hope that
> > some of you will!). In any case, technical concepts are carefully but
> > succinctly explained for the lay person. Musical examples are drawn
> > primarily from twentieth-century musics, including minimalism, drone
> > music, electronica, glitch, and others, with plenty of relevance for
> > the microsound "genre." My main philosophical influence is Gilles
> > Deleuze, but the emphasis in Sound Ideas  is on original thought, and
> > there is very little rehearsal of the theories of others.
> >
> > If you want more information or a sample of the writing, or if you
> > have any questions, please get in touch. I'm here on the list.
> >
> > If you want to read the book, check the usual places, like, uh,
> > libraries and bookstores. Here's an Amazon link:
> > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/081664537X/
> > qid=1121437682/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-7115032-2976126?
> > v=glance&s=books&n=507846.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >        ****  ***  ****
> >             A d e n
> >        ****  ***  ****
> >
> > Assistant Professor of Technical Communication
> > Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies
> > MIT
> > aden@xxxxxxx
> 
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