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Books > Music > Music recording & reproduction
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.
A Rough Trade Book of the Year After the success of his memoir,
Telling Stories, Tim set himself a quest. He got in touch with
people he admires, and asked them to suggest an album for him to
track down on his travels, giving an insight into what makes them
tick, while also giving Tim a chance to see how record shops around
the world were faring in the digital age. Sending out texts, phone
calls, emails and handwritten notes to the likes of Iggy Pop,
Johnny Marr, David Lynch and Cosey Fanni Tutti, here is the tender,
funny and surprising story of what came back.
This book provides a broad overview of spaciousness in music
theory, from mixing and performance practice, to room acoustics,
psychoacoustics and audio engineering, and presents the derivation,
implementation and experimental validation of a novel type of
spatial audio system. Discussing the physics of musical instruments
and the nature of auditory perception, the book enables readers to
precisely localize synthesized musical instruments while
experiencing their timbral variance and spatial breadth. Offering
interdisciplinary insights for novice music enthusiasts and experts
in the field of spatial audio, this book is suitable for anyone
interested in the study of music and musicology and the application
of spatial audio mixing, or those seeking an overview of the state
of the art in applied psychoacoustics for spatial audio.
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