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Books > Music > Music recording & reproduction
Ableton Live is a specialist music software program designed to
work as a live performance tool, as well as meet a composer /
songwriter's needs for recording, arranging, mixing and mastering.
Because of its origins as a live instrument, it gives the performer
unparalleled beatmatching and crossfading capabilities, with all
the techniques used by a traditional DJ or turnablist, and more.
This new essential guide takes a step-by-step approach to the
program, with projects, tips and examples throughout. Part of Flame
Tree's successful Everyday Guides Made Easy series on a range of
computing and app titles.
‘Sonic intimacy’ is a key concept through which sound, human
and technological relations can be assessed in relation to racial
capitalism. What is sonic intimacy, how is it changing and what is
at stake in its transformation, are questions that should concern
us all. Through an analysis of alternative music cultures of the
Black Atlantic (reggae sound systems, jungle pirate radio and grime
YouTube music videos), Malcolm James critically shows how sonic
intimacy pertains to modernity’s social, psychic, spatial and
temporal movements. This book explores what is urgently at stake in
the development of sonic intimacy for human relations and
alternative black and anti-capitalist public politics.
Sonic Writing explores how contemporary music technologies trace
their ancestry to previous forms of instruments and media. Studying
the domains of instrument design, musical notation, and sound
recording under the rubrics of material, symbolic, and signal
inscriptions of sound, the book describes how these historical
techniques of sonic writing are implemented in new digital music
technologies. With a scope ranging from ancient Greek music theory,
medieval notation, early modern scientific instrumentation to
contemporary multimedia and artificial intelligence, it provides a
theoretical grounding for further study and development of
technologies of musical expression. The book draws a bespoke
affinity and similarity between current musical practices and those
from before the advent of notation and recording, stressing the
importance of instrument design in the study of new music and
projecting how new computational technologies, including machine
learning, will transform our musical practices. Sonic Writing
offers a richly illustrated study of contemporary musical media,
where interactivity, artificial intelligence, and networked devices
disclose new possibilities for musical expression. Thor Magnusson
provides a conceptual framework for the creation and analysis of
this new musical work, arguing that contemporary sonic writing
becomes a new form of material and symbolic design--one that is
bound to be ephemeral, a system of fluid objects where technologies
are continually redesigned in a fast cycle of innovation.
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