- First textbook to cover sound art in a single volume that can be used as the primary text in a college course - Offers balanced overview of the field, including coverage of both practical and theoretical aspects, and perspectives from both art and music disciplines - Thematically structured chapters include both explanation of key ideas in sound art, and examinations of specific works, helping students understand both theory and practice

Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture, Sixth Edition, presents an extensive history of electronic music-from its historical beginnings in the late nineteenth century to its everchanging present-recounting the musical ideas that arose in parallel with technological progress. In four parts, the author details the fundamentals of electronic music, its history, the major synthesizer innovators, and contemporary practices. This examination of the music's experimental roots covers the key composers, genres, and techniques used in analog and digital synthesis, including both art and popular music, Western and non-Western. New to this edition: A reorganized and revised chapter structure places technological advances within a historical framework. Shorter chapters offer greater modularity and flexibility for instructors. Discussions on the elements of sound, listening to electronic music, electronic music in the mainstream, Eurorack, and more. An appendix of historically important electronic music studios around the globe. Listening Guides throughout the book provide step-by-step annotations of key musical works, focusing the development of student listening skills. Featuring extensive revisions and expanded coverage, this sixth edition of Electronic and Experimental Music represents an comprehensive accounting of the technology, musical styles, and figures associated with electronic music, highlighting the music's deep cultural impact.

"The Routledge Guide to Music Technology" is an A to Z trade reference aimed at music students, technophiles, and audio-video-computer users. It offers brief definitions of key concepts, biographies of key figures, and discussion of the historical development of the audio world over the 20th century.
The world of music technology has exploded over the last decades, thanks to introductions of new formats (MP3, RealAudio), hardware (Apple's iPod, DVD, CD-ROM), and software (computer file sharing). Now, musicians can create their own audio files and share them with listeners all over the world. Music students (and the average music consumer) need a quick guide to this technological universe.

- First textbook to cover sound art in a single volume that can be used as the primary text in a college course - Offers balanced overview of the field, including coverage of both practical and theoretical aspects, and perspectives from both art and music disciplines - Thematically structured chapters include both explanation of key ideas in sound art, and examinations of specific works, helping students understand both theory and practice

"The Routledge Guide to Music Technology" is an A to Z trade reference aimed at music students, technophiles, and audio-video-computer users. It offers brief definitions of key concepts, biographies of key figures, and discussion of the historical development of the audio world over the 20th century.
The world of music technology has exploded over the last decades, thanks to introductions of new formats (MP3, RealAudio), hardware (Apple's iPod, DVD, CD-ROM), and software (computer file sharing). Now, musicians can create their own audio files and share them with listeners all over the world. Music students (and the average music consumer) need a quick guide to this technological universe.

Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture, Sixth Edition, presents an extensive history of electronic music—from its historical beginnings in the late nineteenth century to its everchanging present—recounting the musical ideas that arose in parallel with technological progress. In four parts, the author details the fundamentals of electronic music, its history, the major synthesizer innovators, and contemporary practices. This examination of the music’s experimental roots covers the key composers, genres, and techniques used in analog and digital synthesis, including both art and popular music, Western and non-Western.

New to this edition:

A reorganized and revised chapter structure places technological advances within a historical framework.

Shorter chapters offer greater modularity and flexibility for instructors.

Discussions on the elements of sound, listening to electronic music, electronic music in the mainstream, Eurorack, and more.

An appendix of historically important electronic music studios around the globe.

Listening Guides throughout the book provide step-by-step annotations of key musical works, focusing the development of student listening skills. Featuring extensive revisions and expanded coverage, this sixth edition of Electronic and Experimental Music represents an comprehensive accounting of the technology, musical styles, and figures associated with electronic music, highlighting the music’s deep cultural impact.

Table of Contents

PART 1: ELECTRONIC MUSIC FUNDAMENTALS

1 What Is Electronic Music?

2 Listening to Electronic Music

3 How Electronic Music is Composed

4 Electronic Music Composition by Process

5 The Physics of Musical Sound

6 Analog and Digital Synthesis Basics

7 Computer Music Basics

8 Tape Composition and Sound Editing

9 MIDI, Noise Reduction, and Audio Compression Technologies

PART 2: HISTORY OF ELECTRONIC AND COMPUTER MUSIC

10 Earliest Experiments in Electronic Music (Pre-1920)

11 Electronic Music Performance Instruments (1920-1940)

12 The History of Audio Recording Technology

13 Edgard Varèse and The Listener’s Experiment

14 Musique Concrète In France

15 Elektronische Musik in Germany

16 Other European Electronic Music Studios

17 John Cage in the United States

18 The Columbia–Princeton Electronic Music Center, New York

19 The Cooperative Studio for Electronic Music, Ann Arbor

20 The Experimental Music Studio, University of Illinois

21 The San Francisco Tape Music Center

22 Electronic Music in Canada

23 Radiophonic Music in the United Kingdom

24 Electronic Music in Latin America

25 Electronic Music in Asia and Australia

26 Early Computer Music (1950-1969)

27 Computer Music (1970-1985)

PART 3: MAKERS OF VINTAGE ANALOG AND DIGITAL SYNTHESIZERS

28 Moog Analog Synthesizers

29 Buchla Analog Synthesizers

30 EMS Analog Synthesizers

31 ARP Analog Synthesizers

32 Other Analog Synthesizers

33 Digital Synthesizers and Samplers

PART 4: LIVE ELECTRONIC MUSIC AND CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES /34 Live Electronic Music — Foundations

35 Live Electronic Music — Historical Practices

36 Modern Turntablism

37 Contemporary Software and Synthesis

38 Eurorack

Appendix: Historic Studios of Electronic Music by World Region 1948-70

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