Material culture and electronic sound / edited by Frode Weium and Tim Boon.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2016.
  • ©2016
Description
xvii, 293 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

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    Series
    • Artefacts series ; v. 8. [More in this series]
    • Artefacts : studies in the history of science and technology ; volume 8
    Summary note
    "This eighth volume of the Artefacts series explores how material culture has affected music and sound. Presented are a collection of essays exploring technological innovations and their effects on musical culture. Contributors include composers, performers, musicologists, and scientists, providing diverse insights into the nature of music. With a foreword by British producer Brian Eno, Material Culture and Electronic Sound examines what has happened as a result of technology and music crossing paths."--Page 4 of cover.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-274) and index.
    Contents
    • Bellowphones and blowed strings : the auxeto-instruments of Horace Short and Chales Algernon Parsons / Aleksander Kolkowski and Alison Rabinovici
    • Artifacts in performance / Katy Price
    • Technology and authenticity : the reception of the Hammond organ in Norway / Frode Weium
    • Mimics, menaces, or new musical horizons? Musicians' attitudes toward the first commercial drum machines and samplers / Sarah Angliss
    • The magentic tape recorder : recording aesthetics in the new era of schizophonia / Ragnhild Brøvig-Hanssen
    • Stockhausen meets King Tubby's : the transformation of the stepped filter into a musical instrument / Sean Williams
    • The oramics machine and the origins of British electronic and computer music / Mick Grierson and Tim Boon
    • Musical instruments and user interfaces in two centuries / Tellef Kvifte
    • Austrian pioneers of electronic musical instruments / Peter Donhauser
    • New and rediscovered musical instruments rediscovered / David Toop.
    ISBN
    • 1944466088 ((paperback))
    • 9781944466084 ((paperback))
    • 9781935623106 ((cloth))
    • 1935623109 ((cloth))
    LCCN
    2016561269
    OCLC
    952547071
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