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Sound Play - Video Games and the Musical Imagination (Hardcover): William Cheng Sound Play - Video Games and the Musical Imagination (Hardcover)
William Cheng
R4,082 Discovery Miles 40 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Video games open portals into fantastical worlds where imaginative play prevails. The virtual medium seemingly provides us with ample opportunities to behave and act out with relative safety and impunity. Or does it? Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of our engagements with gaming's audio phenomena-from sonic violence to synthesized operas, from democratic music-making to vocal sexual harassment. Author William Cheng shows how the simulated environments of games empower designers, composers, players, and scholars to test and tinker with music, noise, speech, and silence in ways that might not be prudent or possible in the real world. In negotiating utopian and alarmist stereotypes of video games, Sound Play synthesizes insights from across musicology, sociology, anthropology, communications, literary theory, and philosophy. With case studies that span Final Fantasy VI, Silent Hill, Fallout 3, The Lord of the Rings Online, and Team Fortress 2, this book insists that what we do in there-in the safe, sound spaces of games-can ultimately teach us a great deal about who we are and what we value (musically, culturally, humanly) out here.

The Synthesizer - A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding, Programming, Playing, and Recording the Ultimate Electronic Music... The Synthesizer - A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding, Programming, Playing, and Recording the Ultimate Electronic Music Instrument (Hardcover, New)
Mark Vail
R4,037 Discovery Miles 40 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Electronic music instruments weren't called synthesizers until the 1950s, but their lineage began in 1919 with Russian inventor Lev Sergeyevich Termen's development of the Etherphone, now known as the Theremin. From that point, synthesizers have undergone a remarkable evolution from prohibitively large mid-century models confined to university laboratories to the development of musical synthesis software that runs on tablet computers and portable media devices.
Throughout its history, the synthesizer has always been at the forefront of technology for the arts. In The Synthesizer: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding, Programming, Playing, and Recording the Ultimate Electronic Music Instrument, veteran music technology journalist, educator, and performer Mark Vail tells the complete story of the synthesizer: the origins of the many forms the instrument takes; crucial advancements in sound generation, musical control, and composition made with instruments that may have become best sellers or gone entirely unnoticed; and the basics and intricacies of acoustics and synthesized sound. Vail also describes how to successfully select, program, and play a synthesizer; what alternative controllers exist for creating electronic music; and how to stay focused and productive when faced with a room full of instruments. This one-stop reference guide on all things synthesizer also offers tips on encouraging creativity, layering sounds, performance, composing and recording for film and television, and much more.

The Art of Music Production - The Theory and Practice (Hardcover, 4th Revised edition): Richard James Burgess The Art of Music Production - The Theory and Practice (Hardcover, 4th Revised edition)
Richard James Burgess
R4,085 Discovery Miles 40 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Now in its fourth edition, The Art of Music Production has established itself as the definitive guide to the art and business of music production and a primary teaching tool for college programs. It is the first book to comprehensively analyze and describe the non-technical role of the music producer. Author Richard James Burgess lays out the complex field of music production by defining the several distinct roles that fall under the rubric of music producer. In this completely updated and revised fourth edition of a book already lauded as "the most comprehensive guide to record production ever published," Burgess has expanded and refined the types of producers, bringing them fully up to date. The first part of the book outlines the underlying theory of the art of music production. The second part focuses on the practical aspects of the job including training, getting into the business, day-to-day responsibilities, potential earnings, managers, lawyers, and - most importantly - the musical, financial, and interpersonal relationships producers have with artists and their labels. The book is packed with insights from the most successful music producers ranging from today's chart-toppers to the beginnings of recorded sound, including mainstream and many niche genres. The book also features many revealing anecdotes about the business, including the stars and the challenges (from daily to career-related) a producer faces. Burgess addresses the changes in the nature of music production that have been brought about by technology and, in particular, the paradigmatic millennial shift that has occurred with digital recording and distribution. Burgess's lifelong experience in the recording industry as a studio musician, artist, producer, manager, and marketer combined with his extensive academic research in the field brings a unique breadth and depth of understanding to the topic.

Sampling Media (Hardcover): David Laderman, Laurel Westrup Sampling Media (Hardcover)
David Laderman, Laurel Westrup
R4,085 Discovery Miles 40 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book puts sampling studies on the academic map by focusing on sampling as a logic of exchange between audio-visual media. While some recent scholarship has addressed sampling primarily in relation to copyright, this book is a first: a critical study of sampling and remixing across audio-visual media. Of special interest here are works that bring together both audio and visual sampling: music that samples film and television; underground dance and multimedia scenes that rely on sampling; Internet "memes" that repurpose music videos, trailers and news broadcasts; films and videos that incorporate a wide range of sampling aesthetics; and other provocative variations. Comprised of four sections titled "roots," "scenes," "cinema" and "web" this collection digs deep into and across sampling practices that intervene in popular culture from unconventional or subversive perspectives. To this end, Sampling Media extends the conceptual boundaries of sampling by emphasizing its inter-medial dimensions, exploring the politics of sampling practice beyond copyright law, and examining its more marginal applications. It likewise puts into conversation compelling instances of sampling from a wide variety of historical and contemporary, global and local contexts.

Computational Thinking in Sound - Teaching the Art and Science of Music and Technology (Hardcover): Gena R Greher, Jesse M.... Computational Thinking in Sound - Teaching the Art and Science of Music and Technology (Hardcover)
Gena R Greher, Jesse M. Heines
R4,082 Discovery Miles 40 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

With Computational Thinking in Sound, veteran educators Gena R. Greher and Jesse M. Heines provide the first book ever written for music fundamentals educators which is devoted specifically to music, sound, and technology. The authors demonstrate how the range of mental tools in computer science - for example, analytical thought, system design, and problem design and solution - can be fruitfully applied to music education, including examples of successful student work. While technology instruction in music education has traditionally focused on teaching how computers and software work to produce music, Greher and Heines offer context: a clear understanding of how music technology can be structured around a set of learning challenges and tasks of the type common in computer science classrooms. Using a learner-centered approach that emphasizes project-based experiences, the book provides music educators with multiple strategies to explore, create, and solve problems with music and technology in equal parts. It also provides examples of hands-on activities which encourage students, alone and in interdisciplinary groups, to explore the basic principles that underlie today's music technology and which expose them to current multimedia development tools.

Wild Track - Sound, Text and the Idea of Birdsong (Hardcover): Seán Street Wild Track - Sound, Text and the Idea of Birdsong (Hardcover)
Seán Street
R3,198 Discovery Miles 31 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Wild Track is an exploration of birdsong and the ways in which that sound was conveyed, described and responded to through text, prior to the advent of recording and broadcast technologies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Street links sound aesthetics, radio, natural history, and literature to explore how the brain and imagination translate sonic codes as well as the nature of the silent sound we "hear" when we read a text. This creates an awareness of sound through the tuned attention of the senses, learning from sound texts of the natural world that sought – and seek – to convey the intensity of the sonic moment and fleeting experience. To absorb these lessons is to enable a more highly interactive relationship with sound and listening, and to interpret the subtleties of audio as a means of expression and translation of the living world.

Pro Tools 101 - An Introduction to Pro Tools 10 (Paperback, New): Frank Cook Pro Tools 101 - An Introduction to Pro Tools 10 (Paperback, New)
Frank Cook 1
R1,311 Discovery Miles 13 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

PRO TOOLS 101: AN INTRODUCTION TO PRO TOOLS 10 takes a comprehensive approach to learning the fundamentals of Pro Tools systems. Now updated for Pro Tools 10 software, this new edition from the definitive authority on Pro Tools covers everything you need to know to complete a Pro Tools project. Learn to build sessions that include multitrack recordings of live instruments, MIDI sequences, and virtual instruments. Through hands-on tutorials, develop essential techniques for recording, editing, and mixing. The included DVD-ROM offers tutorial files and videos, additional documentation, and Pro Tools sessions to accompany the projects in the text.

Owning the Masters - A History of Sound Recording Copyright (Hardcover): Richard Osborne Owning the Masters - A History of Sound Recording Copyright (Hardcover)
Richard Osborne
R2,634 Discovery Miles 26 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Owning the Masters provides the first in-depth history of sound recording copyright. It is this form of intellectual property that underpins the workings of the recording industry. Rather than being focused on the manufacture of goods, this industry is centred on the creation, exploitation and protection of rights. The development and control of these rights has not been straightforward. This book explores the lobbying activities of record companies: the principal creators, owners and defenders of sound recording copyright. It addresses the counter-activity of recording artists, in particular those who have fought against the legislative and contractual practices of record companies to claim these master rights for themselves. In addition, this book looks at the activities of the listening public, large numbers of whom have been labelled 'pirates' for trespassing on these rights. The public has played its own part in shaping copyright legislation. This is an essential subject for an understanding of the economic, artistic and political value of recorded sound.

Haunted Soundtracks - Audiovisual Cultures of Memory, Landscape, and Sound (Hardcover): Kevin J. Donnelly, Aimee Mollaghan Haunted Soundtracks - Audiovisual Cultures of Memory, Landscape, and Sound (Hardcover)
Kevin J. Donnelly, Aimee Mollaghan
R3,198 Discovery Miles 31 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The turn of the millennium has heralded an outgrowth of culture that demonstrates an awareness of the ephemeral nature of history and the complexity underpinning the relationship between location and the past. This has been especially apparent in the shifting relationship between landscape, memory and sound in film, television and other media. The result is growing interest in soundtracks, as part of audiovisual culture, as well as an interest in the spectral aspects of culture more generally. This collection of essays focuses on audiovisual forms that foreground landscape, sound and memory. The scope of inquiry emphasises the ghostly qualities of a certain body of soundtracks, extending beyond merely the idea of 'scary films' or 'haunted houses.' Rather, the notion of sonic haunting is tied to ideas of trauma, anxiety or nostalgia associated with spatial and temporal dislocation in contemporary society. Touchstones for the approach are the concepts of psychogeography and hauntology, pervasive and established critical strategies that are interrogated and refined in relation to the reification of the spectral within the soundtracks under consideration here.

Basic Musical Library, P Series, 1-1000 (Hardcover, New): Larry Kiner, Harry Mackenzie Basic Musical Library, P Series, 1-1000 (Hardcover, New)
Larry Kiner, Harry Mackenzie
R2,608 Discovery Miles 26 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In 1943 the Armed Forces Radio Service began transmitting programs that linked the thousands of American military personnel and civilians stationed overseas to the United States. This definitive study provides discographical data for the first 1,000 recordings of the AFRS Basic Musical Library, P (Popular) Series. This series of recordings of popular, jazz, and classical music constituted a permanent music library at every military radio station and allowed AFRS personnel at the numerous broadcast facilities around the world to act as disc jockeys, playing the most popular and requested songs and artists for their audiences--principally American GIs. Some of the many orchestras and singers represented in the collection include Bing Crosby, Harry James, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, the Andrews Sisters, Frank Sinatra, and Peggy Lee. The sources of the recordings were variable and included commercial recordings (occasionally alternate takes) principally from Columbia, Decca, and Victor; radio broadcasts (often from dress rehearsals); concerts; and AFRS's own recording sessions. Larry F. Kiner and Harry Mackenzie have meticulously and comprehensively researched the AFRS files to produce this first complete listing of these recordings and their compilation is also the first to identify the many commercial record issues that have been derived from the series. Following the introduction that advises readers how to use the book and also explains its format and abbreviations, the 1,000-entry discography begins. Each entry lists the AFRS Basic Musical Library P Series catalog number; the matrix number; take number as shown on the ARFS label; song title; artist identification; running time in minutes; source of the take, including exact date and geographical location, when known; and size, speed and issue data. Two appendixes center on the most popular artists and most popular songs of the collection and two separate indexes list articles and songs to facilitate ease of location. Of special interest are the over three dozen label illustrations. This important source of information on American popular songs, artists, and recordings of the 1943 to 1947 period will be welcomed by musical scholars of the World War II era and by those with a penchant for American popular music.

Acoustics - The Art of Sound (Paperback): Steve Marshall Acoustics - The Art of Sound (Paperback)
Steve Marshall
R207 Discovery Miles 2 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What is the difference between an echo and a reverberation? How do you calculate the best note to whistle in a toilet?Where do you best place microphones for that perfect recording? In this fascinating little book, musician Steve Marshall explores the subject of acoustics. From decibels to dolphins, stereo to surround, this book will appeal to singers, musicians, architects, biologists, and anyone who ever wanted to know more about the wonderful world of sound.

How to Become a Live Audio Mixer - 7 Secrets of a Hollywood Live Audio Mixer Who Does LIVE EVENTS Every Month! (Hardcover):... How to Become a Live Audio Mixer - 7 Secrets of a Hollywood Live Audio Mixer Who Does LIVE EVENTS Every Month! (Hardcover)
Howexpert, Mike Napoli
R771 Discovery Miles 7 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Personification of Entelechy (Hardcover): Stacy E Schlagel Personification of Entelechy (Hardcover)
Stacy E Schlagel
R483 Discovery Miles 4 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Blueprints to Building Your Own Voice-Over Studio (Hardcover): Ian J M King Blueprints to Building Your Own Voice-Over Studio (Hardcover)
Ian J M King
R624 R562 Discovery Miles 5 620 Save R62 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Music Production, 2020 Edition - The Advanced Guide On How to Produce for Music Producers (Hardcover): Tommy Swindali Music Production, 2020 Edition - The Advanced Guide On How to Produce for Music Producers (Hardcover)
Tommy Swindali
R725 R642 Discovery Miles 6 420 Save R83 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Music Production 2020 - Everything You Need To Know About Producing Music, Studio Recording, Mixing, Mastering and Songwriting... Music Production 2020 - Everything You Need To Know About Producing Music, Studio Recording, Mixing, Mastering and Songwriting in 2020 (2 Book Bundle) (Hardcover)
Tommy Swindali
R764 R680 Discovery Miles 6 800 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Music Production For Beginners 2020 Edition - How to Produce Music, The Easy to Read Guide for Music Producers (Hardcover):... Music Production For Beginners 2020 Edition - How to Produce Music, The Easy to Read Guide for Music Producers (Hardcover)
Tommy Swindali
R727 R643 Discovery Miles 6 430 Save R84 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Remediating Sound - Repeatable Culture, YouTube and Music (Hardcover): Holly Rogers, Joana Freitas, João Francisco Porfírio Remediating Sound - Repeatable Culture, YouTube and Music (Hardcover)
Holly Rogers, Joana Freitas, João Francisco Porfírio
R2,177 Discovery Miles 21 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Remediating Sound studies the phenomena of remixing, mashup and recomposition: forms of reuse and sampling that have come to characterise much of YouTube's audiovisual content. Through collaborative composition, collage and cover songs to reaction videos and political activism , users from diverse backgrounds have embraced the democratised space of YouTube to open up new and innovative forms of sonic creativity and push the boundaries of audiovisual possibilities. Observing the reciprocal flow of influence that runs between various online platforms, 12 chapters position YouTube as a central hub for the exploration of digital sound, music and the moving image. With special focus on aspects of networked creativity that remain overlooked in contemporary scholarship, including library music, memetic media, artificial intelligence, the sonic arts and music fandom, this volume offers interdisciplinary insight into contemporary audiovisual culture.

Sonic Intimacy - Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime YouTube Music Videos (Hardcover): Malcolm James Sonic Intimacy - Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime YouTube Music Videos (Hardcover)
Malcolm James
R2,508 Discovery Miles 25 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

‘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 - Technologies of Material, Symbolic, and Signal Inscriptions (Hardcover): Thor Magnusson Sonic Writing - Technologies of Material, Symbolic, and Signal Inscriptions (Hardcover)
Thor Magnusson
R4,243 Discovery Miles 42 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

The Beatles and Humour - Mockers, Funny Papers, and Other Play (Hardcover): Katie Kapurch, Richard Mills, Matthias Heyman The Beatles and Humour - Mockers, Funny Papers, and Other Play (Hardcover)
Katie Kapurch, Richard Mills, Matthias Heyman
R3,202 Discovery Miles 32 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Beatles are known for cheeky punchlines, but understanding their humor goes beyond laughing at John Lennon’s memorable “rattle your jewelry” dig at the Royal Variety Performance in 1963. From the beginning, the Beatles’ music was full of wordplay and winks, guided by comedic influences ranging from rhythm and blues, British radio, and the Liverpool pub scene. Gifted with timing and deadpan wit, the band habitually relied on irony, sarcasm, and nonsense. Early jokes revealed an aptitude for improvisation and self-awareness, techniques honed throughout the 1960s and into solo careers. Experts in the art of play, including musical experimentation, the Beatles’ shared sense of humor is a key ingredient to their appeal during the 1960s— and to their endurance. The Beatles and Humour offers innovative takes on the serious art of Beatle fun, an instrument of social, political, and economic critique. Chapters also situate the band alongside British and non-British predecessors and collaborators, such as Billy Preston and Yoko Ono, uncovering diverse components and unexpected effects of the Beatles’ output.

CineWorlding - Scenes of Cinematic Research-Creation (Hardcover): Michael B MacDonald CineWorlding - Scenes of Cinematic Research-Creation (Hardcover)
Michael B MacDonald
R3,206 Discovery Miles 32 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Using cine-ethnomusicology as a focus, Cineworlding introduces readers to ways of thinking eco-cinematically. Screens are omnipresent, we carry digital cinema production equipment in our pockets, but this screen-based technological revolution has barely impacted social science scholarship. Mixing existential phenomenological fiction about social science digital cinema research practice followed by theoretical reflection and discussion of methods, this book has emerged from a decade-long inquiry into cineworlding and a desire to help others produce digital media to engage creatively with the digital networks that surround us.

Muscle Shoals Sound Studio - How the Swampers Changed American Music (Paperback): Carla Jean Whitley Muscle Shoals Sound Studio - How the Swampers Changed American Music (Paperback)
Carla Jean Whitley
R596 R545 Discovery Miles 5 450 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Explore the fascinating history of the Muscle Shoals Sound.

Structuring Music through Markup Language - Designs and Architectures (Hardcover): Jacques Steyn Structuring Music through Markup Language - Designs and Architectures (Hardcover)
Jacques Steyn
R5,192 Discovery Miles 51 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Although there have been two main perspectives on the nature of music through systematic and cultural musicology, music informatics has emerged as an interdisciplinary research area which provides a different idea on the nature of music through computer technologies. Structuring Music through Markup Language: Designs and Architectures offers a different approach to music by focusing on the information organization and the development of XML-based language. This book aims to offer a new set of tools on for practical implementations and a new investigation into the theory of music.

Sweet 16s - Songwriting Journal Hardcover Rap Notebook Journal For Rappers, Lyrics and Writers - 112 pages and 7x10 Journal For... Sweet 16s - Songwriting Journal Hardcover Rap Notebook Journal For Rappers, Lyrics and Writers - 112 pages and 7x10 Journal For Writing - Dark Leather Pattern (Hardcover)
Sweet 16s Media
R599 Discovery Miles 5 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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