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Future sounds : the story of electronic music from Stockhausen to Skrillex / David Stubbs.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Faber & Faber, 2018Description: xvii, 429 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780571346974
  • 0571346979
Subject(s):
Contents:
Electronics: a prehistory -- Futurism and the birth of noise -- Poème électronique: the long wait of Edgard Varèse -- Un homme seul: Pierre Schaeffer and the art of scissors -- Stockhausen: beyond the cosmos -- 4' 33" of everything: John Cage and other concrète solutions -- Distant galaxies, deep oceans: Sun Ra and Miles Davis -- Deux femmes seules: Derbyshire and Oram -- Stevie Wonder and the electrification of soul -- From Suicide to the Pet Shop Boys: the art of the duo -- They were the robots: Kraftwerk and pop automata -- Substance: from Joy Division to New Order, the Human League to the Human League, Depeche Mode to Depeche Mode -- Brian Eno, the Aphex Twin and ambient's late arrival -- Cutting up the world: from Cabaret Voltaire to J Dilla -- Reverberation and decay -- Legitimacy: from Castlemorton to Skrillex -- Conclusion -- Nineteenth- and twentieth-century musical technology: a timeline -- A Future sounds playlist.
Summary: A comprehensive history of electronic music from the earliest experimental instruments to the modern EDM scene.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 786.7 S932 Available 33111009306941
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Electronic music is now ubiquitous, from mainstream pop hits to the furthest reaches of the avant garde. But how did we get here? In Mars by 1980 , David Stubbs charts the evolution of synthesised tones, from the earliest mechanical experiments in the late nineteenth century, through the musique concrete of the Futurists and radical composers such as Pierre Schaeffer and Karl Stockhausen, to the gradual absorption of electronic instrumentation into the mainstream, be it through the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, grandiose prog rock or the DIY approach of electronica, house and techno.

Stubbs tells a tale of mavericks and future dreamers, malfunctioning devices and sonic mayhem. But above all, he describes an essential story of authenticity: is this music? Mars by 1980 is the definitive account that answers this question.

Includes index.

A comprehensive history of electronic music from the earliest experimental instruments to the modern EDM scene.

Electronics: a prehistory -- Futurism and the birth of noise -- Poème électronique: the long wait of Edgard Varèse -- Un homme seul: Pierre Schaeffer and the art of scissors -- Stockhausen: beyond the cosmos -- 4' 33" of everything: John Cage and other concrète solutions -- Distant galaxies, deep oceans: Sun Ra and Miles Davis -- Deux femmes seules: Derbyshire and Oram -- Stevie Wonder and the electrification of soul -- From Suicide to the Pet Shop Boys: the art of the duo -- They were the robots: Kraftwerk and pop automata -- Substance: from Joy Division to New Order, the Human League to the Human League, Depeche Mode to Depeche Mode -- Brian Eno, the Aphex Twin and ambient's late arrival -- Cutting up the world: from Cabaret Voltaire to J Dilla -- Reverberation and decay -- Legitimacy: from Castlemorton to Skrillex -- Conclusion -- Nineteenth- and twentieth-century musical technology: a timeline -- A Future sounds playlist.

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