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MU51063A Electronic Music Composition View Online and History (Academic Year 2019-20)
97 items
Recommended Reading (15 items)
Audio culture: readings in modern music - 2017 Book | Recommended
The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s counterculture and the avant-garde - David W. Bernstein, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, 2008 Book | Further reading
More brilliant than the sun: adventures in sonic fiction - Kodwo Eshun, 1998 Book | Further reading
Electronic and experimental music: technology, music, and culture - Thom Holmes, 2016 Book | Recommended
Cracked media: the sound of malfunction - Caleb Kelly, c2009 Book | Further reading
Software for People Collected Writings 1963-80 - Pauline Oliveros, June 1984 Book | Further reading
Energy flash: a journey through rave music and dance culture - Simon Reynolds, 1998 Book | Further reading
Pink noises: women on electronic music and sound - Tara Rodgers, 2010 Book | Recommended
Stockhausen on music: lectures and interviews - Karlheinz Stockhausen, Robin Maconie, 1989 Book | Further reading
Fear of music: why people get Rothko but don't get Stockhausen - David Stubbs, 2009 Book | Further reading
Ocean of sound: aether talk, ambient sound and imaginary worlds - David Toop, 1995 Book | Recommended
Dub: soundscapes and shattered songs in Jamaican reggae - Michael E. Veal, c2007 Book | Further reading
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Re Search 6 7 Industrial Culture Handbook Webpage | Recommended
120 Years of Electronic Music: The history of electronic musical instruments from 1800 to 2019 - Simon Crabb Website | Recommended
Modulations: a cinema for the ear - Iara Lee, 1998-08 Audio-visual document | Recommended | Good Documentary encompassing many kinds of electronic music.
Week 2: Early Instruments, Early Studios, Musique Concrète (8 items)
The Three Listening Modes Chapter | Essential
The Art of Noises (futurist manifesto) - Luigi Russolo, 1913 Article | Recommended
An Interview with Pierre Schaeffer - Tim Hodgkinson Article | Further reading
What the GRM brought to music: from musique concrète to acousmatic music - Marc Battier, 2007-12 Article | Further reading
The Art of Sounds - Éric Darmon, Franck Franck Mallet, 2007 Audio-visual document | Further reading | Documentary on Pierre Henry
What Was the First Sound Ever Recorded by a Machine? - Merrill Fabry, 2018-05-01 Webpage | Further reading
A brief history of the turntable and vinyl records - Becky Roberts, 2019-05-23 Webpage | Further reading
https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/grm-past-present-and-future-experimental-music/ - 2019-12-17 Webpage | Recommended
Week 3: Early Studios (continued), Elektronische Musik, and Krautrock (12 items)
A Brief History of The Studio As An Instrument: Part 1 - Early Reflections - 2016-10-25 Webpage | Essential
Stockhausen vs the Technocrats - Witts Richard Article | Essential
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Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany - 2009 Audio-visual document | Recommended
Stockhausen on Electronic Music (1952-1960), WDR Electronic Music Studio Tour - Ed Chang, 2015 Article | Recommended
The Self-Destructing Modules Behind Revolutionary 1956 Soundtrack of Forbidden Planet - Ted Greenwald Article | Recommended
A guide to Karheinz Stockhausen - Tom Service, 2013-05-07 Webpage | Further reading
The cosmic messenger: How Karlheinz Stockhausen shaped contemporary electronic music - Jack Needham, 2017-11-16 Article | Further reading
How Stockhausen made pop weird - Fintan O'Toole, 2007-12-07 Webpage | Further reading
West German Underground – A Brief History of Krautrock - Dave Fox, 2019-05-21 Webpage | Further reading
Music Masters: Stockhausen - 2001-01-11 Audio-visual document | Further reading
This is the Early History of the Synthesizer - Sammy Lee, 2018-07-03 Article | Further reading
The 20 best - Gareth Goddard, 2013-09-15 Article | Further reading
Week 4: Radiophonics and Bell Labs (14 items)
A Brief History of The Studio As An Instrument: Part 2 - Tomorrow Never Knows - 2016-10-28 Webpage | Essential
The Story of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Steve Marshall, April 2008 Article | Recommended
Delia Derbyshire: Electronic Music Pioneer - 2017-05-05 Website | Recommended
History of the BBC: Delia Derbyshire - David Butler Article | Further reading
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The Delian Mode (Delia Derbyshire Documentary) - Kara Blake, 2009 Audio-visual document | Further reading
Research& Development: Radiophonics in the BBC - F.C. Brookner, January 1963 Article | Further reading
Brief History of Computer Music - Eric Stephen Kuehnl, 2020 Article | Recommended
A Chronology / History of Electronic and Computer Music and Related Events 1860 - 2017 - Paul Doornbusch, 2008-2015 Article | Recommended
Radiophonic Workshop: the shadowy pioneers of electronic sound - Joe Muggs, 2013-10-23 Article | Further reading
The Music of Bell Labs - Geeta Dayal, 2016-05-30 Article | Essential
The Woman who Could 'Draw' Music - Holly Williams, 2017-05-03 Article | Recommended
Daphne Oram : We have also had sound. (Documentary) Audio-visual document | Further reading
Electronic and Computer Music - April 2011 Article | Further reading
Daphne Oram Website | Further reading
Week 5: Dub and the Studio as Instrument (12 items)
A Brief History of The Studio As An Instrument: Part 3 - Echoes From The Future - 2016-11-06 Webpage | Recommended
51. Replicant: On Dub - David Toop Chapter | Recommended
Scientist on Dub - 2011-02-11 Audio-visual document | Recommended
Dub Echoes - Bruno Natal, 2009 Audio-visual document | Recommended
BASS WORSHIP: The Story of DUB and SOUND SYSTEM Culture (2020 Documentary) - Turismo, 2020
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Audio-visual document | Essential
The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry - Ethan Higbee, Adam Bhala Lough Audio-visual document | Recommended
24 Track Loop: The sound art of This Heat - Jeff Terich, 2016-01-25 Article | Further reading
Tubby's dub style: The live art of record production Chapter | Further reading
Dubbing Is A Must: A Beginner’s Guide To Jamaica’s Most Influential Genre - David Katz, 2014-04-16 Article | Recommended
Dub Mixing: What Dub Mixing Is & How To Do It - Andrea Terrano, July 2007 Article | Recommended
The Studio as Compositional Tool - Brian Eno, 1983 Chapter | Recommended
A History Of The U.K.'s Earthshakingly Bass-Heavy Sound System Culture In 10 Tracks - Sam Davies, 2019-10-04 Article | Further reading
Week 6: Reading Week
Week 7: Sampling and Looping (8 items)
Variations: An overview of appropriative collage in music - Jon Leidecker Audio document | Recommended | Please note: There are 7 episodes of this podcast on Sampling. You can listen to them OR download the transcripts to read. The podcasts are each around an hour long and are VERY good.
Grandmaster Flash Talks "The Theory" Of Being A HipHop DJ & The Beginnings Of Hip-Hop Audio-visual document | Essential
The Evolution of Hip Hop (Part 1) Audio-visual document | Recommended
DJ Shadow On Sampling As A 'Collage Of Mistakes' (Interview) - Guy Raz, DJ Shadow, 2012-11-17 Webpage | Recommended
Video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop Audio-visual document | Recommended
From John Cage to Kool Herc: A Brief History of Turntablism - Sophy Smith, 2016-02-02
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Webpage | Essential
Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative - John Oswald Article | Recommended
Throbbing Gristle Chapter | Recommended | This reading will also appear under the heading of Week 10: Noise.
Week 8: Drone, Ambient, Minimalism (14 items)
1. memory Chapter | Recommended
Minimilism, Eno, and the New Simplicity Chapter | Recommended | Please note: There are specific useful exerpts based on your interest.
Focus on La Monte Young 95-100 Focus on Terry Riley 100-106 Focus on Steve Reich 107-115 Focus on Brian Eno 115-132 Focus on Phillip Glass 132-141 Focus on New Age Music 144-149
and many many more....
The 50 Best Ambient Albums of all Time - Keith Fullerton Whitman, 2016-09-26 Webpage | Further reading
Music as a gradual process. - Reich Steve Chapter | Essential | This will come up again in Music Computing 2.
A Conversation with Brian Eno about Ambient Music - Philip Sherburne, 2017-02-16 Article | Recommended
Album Liner Notes - Brian Eno Webpage | Essential | Please read the liner notes to Music for Airports and On Land.
A Short History of Ambient and Downtempo Music - Mike Watson, 2009 Article | Recommended
Just Intonation Explained - Kyle Gann Webpage | Further reading
Ubuweb Historical: La Monte Young, USA | b. 1935 Webpage | Further reading | Significant Writings by La Monte Young are linked as pdfs. You may wish to look at: La Monte Young Marian Zazeela "Selected Writings" (1959-1969).
What Is Hauntology? - Mark Fisher, 2012-09
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Article | Further reading
A Slight Delay: Agency and Improvisation in the Ambient Sound World - Daniel Siepmann Article | Further reading
The Voice of the Universe – A Brief History of Drone - Florian Sievers, 2018-12-05 Article | Essential
Stephen O'Malley (Interview) - C. Spencer Yeh, 2017-05-17 Article | Further reading
Flying Saucer Attack (Interview) - David Keenan, 2015-09-15 Article | Further reading
Week 9: Dance Music: Disco, Techno, House, IDM (4 items)
Modulations: a cinema for the ear - Iara Lee, 1998-08 Audio-visual document | Recommended | Good Documentary encompassing many kinds of electronic music.
Pump up the volume: A History of House music - 2001 Audio-visual document | Recommended
A Tale of Three Cities: Detroit Techno, Chicago House, and New York Garage Chapter | Further reading
Human Bodies, Computer Music - Bob Ostertag, 2002-12 Article | Recommended
Week 10: Noise and Feedback (9 items)
A beginner's guide to noise music - Peter Woods, 2019-07-03 Webpage | Recommended
Throbbing Gristle Chapter | Recommended | This reading also appears under Week 7: Sampling and Looping.
Chapter 4: Genre Noise Chapter | Recommended
Friend or Foe: A feedback Primer - Ken Pearsall Webpage | Further reading
Noise is for Loners: Merzbow, Metal Machine Music, and noise music as a tool for shutting out the world. - Mark Richardson, 2001-07-23 Website | Recommended
When does noise become music? - Tom Service
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Article | Essential
10 Merzbow Chapter | Recommended
Squarepusher: Come on, feel the noise - Squarepusher, 2008-11-11 Article | Recommended
It’s All Noise: How loudness conquered everything. - Hua Hsu, 2015-07-20 Article | Further reading
Week 11: Glitch and Microsound, Circuit Bending (1 items)
The Aesthetics of Failure - Kim Cascone Article | Recommended
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