Wired For Music

Author : Philip Ball
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199780072

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The Music Instinct by Philip Ball Pdf

From Bach fugues to Indonesian gamelan, from nursery rhymes to rock, music has cast its light into every corner of human culture. But why music excites such deep passions, and how we make sense of musical sound at all, are questions that have until recently remained unanswered. Now in The Music Instinct, award-winning writer Philip Ball provides the first comprehensive, accessible survey of what is known--and still unknown--about how music works its magic, and why, as much as eating and sleeping, it seems indispensable to humanity. Deftly weaving together the latest findings in brain science with history, mathematics, and philosophy, The Music Instinct not only deepens our appreciation of the music we love, but shows that we would not be ourselves without it. The Sunday Times hailed it as "a wonderful account of why music matters," with Ball's "passion for music evident on every page."

Author : Adriana Barton
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781771645553

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Wired for Music by Adriana Barton Pdf

“Beautifully written... a riveting account of how melodies and rhythms connect us, and help us deal with alienation and anxiety.”—Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score In this captivating blend of science and memoir, a health journalist and former cellist explores music as a source of health, resilience, connection, and joy. Music isn’t just background noise or a series of torturous exercises we remember from piano lessons. In the right doses, it can double as a mild antidepressant, painkiller, sleeping pill, memory aid—and enhance athletic performance while supporting healthy aging. Though music has been used as a healing strategy since ancient times, neuroscientists have only recently discovered how melody and rhythm stimulate core memory, motor, and emotion centers in the brain. But here’s the catch: We can tune into music every day and still miss out on some of its potent effects. Adriana Barton learned the hard way. Starting at age five, she studied the cello for nearly two decades, a pursuit that left her with physical injuries and emotional scars. In Wired for Music, she sets out to discover what music is really for, combing through medical studies, discoveries by pioneering neuroscientists, and research from biology and anthropology. Traveling from state-of-the-art science labs to a remote village in Zimbabwe, her investigation gets to the heart of music’s profound effects on the human body and brain. Blending science and story, Wired for Music shows how our species’ age-old connection to melody and rhythm is wired inside us.

Author : Greg Kot
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781416547310

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Ripped by Greg Kot Pdf

Tells the story of how the laptop generation created a new grassroots music industry, with the fans and bands rather than the corporations in charge.

Author : Paul D. Greene,Thomas Porcello
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780819570628

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Wired for Sound by Paul D. Greene,Thomas Porcello Pdf

Winner of the Society for Ethnmusicology's Klaus Wachsmann Award (2006) Wired for Sound is the first anthology to address the role of sound engineering technologies in the shaping of contemporary global music. Wired sound is at the basis of digital audio editing, multi-track recording, and other studio practices that have powerfully impacted the world's music. Distinctions between musicians and engineers increasingly blur, making it possible for people around the globe to imagine new sounds and construct new musical aesthetics. This collection of 11 essays employs primarily ethnographical, but also historical and psychological, approaches to examine a range of new, technology-intensive musics and musical practices such as: fusions of Indian film-song rhythms, heavy metal, and gamelan in Jakarta; urban Nepali pop which juxtaposes heavy metal, Tibetan Buddhist ritual chant, rap, and Himalayan folksongs; collaborations between Australian aboriginals and sound engineers; the production of "heaviness" in heavy metal music; and the production of the "Austin sound." This anthology is must reading for anyone interested in the global character of contemporary music technology. CONTRIBUTORS: Harris M. Berger, Beverley Diamond, Cornelia Fales, Ingemar Grandin, Louise Meintjes, Frederick J. Moehn, Karl Neunfeldt, Timothy D. Taylor, Jeremy Wallach.

Author : William Duckworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136087387

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Virtual Music by William Duckworth Pdf

Virtual Music: How the Web Got Wired for Sound is a personal story of how one composer has created new music on the web, a history of interactive music, and a guide for aspiring musicians who want to harness the new creative opportunities offered by web composing. Also includes a 4-page color insert.

Author : Simon Reynolds
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571252299

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Totally Wired by Simon Reynolds Pdf

From the author of the bestselling postpunk history Rip It Up and Start Again comes Totally Wired, a companion book of conversations with the brilliant minds who made the late seventies and early eighties such a creative era for radical music and alternative culture. Totally Wired features thirty-two interviews with postpunk's most innovative musicians and colourful personalities - Ari Up, Jah Wobble, David Byrne, Green Gartside, Lydia Lunch, Edwyn Collins - as well as other movers and shakers of the period: label bosses and managers like Anthony H. Wilson and Bill Drummond, record producers such as Trevor Horn and Martin Rushent, and influential DJs and journalists like John Peel and Paul Morley. Crackling with argument and anecdote, the conversations in Totally Wired bring a rich human dimension to the postpunk story chronicled in the critically acclaimed Rip It Up. We get to follow these exceptional (and often eccentric) characters from their earliest days through the glory and sometimes disaster of their musical adventures to what they went on to do after postpunk. We gain a vivid sense of individuals struggling against the odds to make their world as interesting as possible, in the process leaving a legacy of artistic ambition and provocation that reverberates to this day. Along with the interviews, Totally Wired also includes a bonus 'overviews' section: further reflections by Simon Reynolds on postpunk's key icons and crucial scenes, including John Lydon and Public Image Ltd, Ian Curtis and Joy Division, art school conceptualists and proto-postpunkers Brian Eno and Malcolm McLaren, and the lineage of glam grotesquerie running from Siouxsie & The Banshees to the New Romantics to Leigh Bowery. Buzzing with ideas and insights, Totally Wired is an absolute mind rush.

Author : Tom Bromley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857203236

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Wired for Sound by Tom Bromley Pdf

The eighties was a golden era for British pop: Radio One served as the soundtrack of the nation; the chart run-down on Sunday evenings was compulsory listening - ditto watching Top of the Popsand reading Smash Hits. It also saw the launch of the Now That's What I Call Music series. In the States, the arrival of MTV helped usher in what became known as the 'Second British Invasion', echoing the success of the Beatles twenty years earlier. Wired For Soundtells the remarkable story of the great eighties British bands (and Kajagoogoo) and how their music captured the nation's imagination: the more radical beginnings in the early eighties (the new romanticisms of Duran and Spandau, the 'protest pop' of early Wham!); the full pomp of their mid-eighties success (the worldwide tours, the glamorous video shoots, the ubiquitous 'Choose Life' and 'Relax' T-shirts); and their fall from the top of pop's pedestal (the splitting up of Wham!, Boy George's drug problems). Wired for Soundwill describe the subsequent descent to Band Aid II (Bros, Wet Wet Wet, Stock, Aitken and Waterman), which bookended the low point of the pop music that followed. Wired For Sound will be the affectionate celebration of both a musical youth and the era when young guns went for it. This is a book for anyone who grew up reading Smash Hits, soundtracked their teenage years on C90 cassettes and remembers a time when it really mattered who was number one.

Author : Nancy K. Baym
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781479803033

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Playing to the Crowd by Nancy K. Baym Pdf

Explains what happened to music—for both artists and fans—when music went online. Playing to the Crowd explores and explains how the rise of digital communication platforms has transformed artist-fan relationships into something closer to friendship or family. Through in-depth interviews with musicians such as Billy Bragg and Richie Hawtin, as well as members of the Cure, UB40, and Throwing Muses, Baym reveals how new media has facilitated these connections through the active, and often required, participation of the artists and their devoted, digital fan base. Before the rise of social sharing and user-generated content, fans were mostly seen as an undifferentiated and unidentifiable mass, often mediated through record labels and the press. However, in today’s networked era, musicians and fans have built more active relationships through social media, fan sites, and artist sites, giving fans a new sense of intimacy and offering artists unparalleled information about their audiences. However, this comes at a price. For audiences, meeting their heroes can kill the mystique. And for artists, maintaining active relationships with so many people can be both personally and financially draining, as well as extremely labor intensive. Drawing on her own rich history as an active and deeply connected music fan, Baym offers an entirely new approach to media culture, arguing that the work musicians put in to create and maintain these intimate relationships reflect the demands of the gig economy, one which requires resources and strategies that we must all come to recognize and appreciate.

Author : Grant Gillanders,Robyn Welsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11
Category : Popular music
ISBN : 1988538114

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Wired for Sound by Grant Gillanders,Robyn Welsh Pdf

For the first time ever, discover the story behind the Stebbing recording legacy. From pioneering violins and 78 records, to the singers, songwriters, engineers and producers who have graced Stebbing's famous three recording studios. Come inside the mid-1960s Galaxie nightclub, the evolution of the Zodiac record label and the Stebbing family's fearless response to industry politics, changing technologies and financial risk. This is the untold Stebbing story of resilience, enterprise and an ancestral restless spirit has underpinned the Stebbing family's generational legacy, from the pioneering days of recording in New Zealand to the digital age. Against a backdrop of New Zealand's vibrant social history, this 75-year-long story is about the bands, the artists, the singers, the songwriters, the engineers and the technical know-how that is uniquely Stebbings. Richly-told and lavishly illustrated, this warts-and-all nostalgic read is told through the artists, the musicians, the bands, the songwriters, the engineers and the wider Stebbing family itself.

Author : Megan Perry
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 0879307943

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Wired by Megan Perry Pdf

(Book). Advances in recording technology have changed the rules of the road, putting musicians in the driver's seat. Wired peers into the personalities of artists/producers with profiles, photo essays and comprehensive descriptions of their home studios. Stark conceptual photography will reflect the personas of artists such as No Doubt, Sonic Youth, Snoop Dogg, Korn, and more as they are connected to their home studios and surroundings. By bringing profiles, images, and technical data together in one package, both fans and mainstream producers will find themselves interested in a visually stunning and educational book.

Author : Ben Chasny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1937112179

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The Hexadic System by Ben Chasny Pdf

Introducing a new approach to playing and composing music. It doesn¿t require the use of a computer or an internet hookup; all that the interested player will need is a guitar, a copy of The Hexadic System book ¿ and a regular deck of playing cards.

Author : William Duckworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 0415966752

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Virtual Music by William Duckworth Pdf

"With the explosive growth of the World Wide Web has come a new world of cyber music, and with it, seemingly unlimited artistic possibilities. [The book] chronicles the development of interactive sound and music, from its beginnings in the early twentieth century to cell phones and iTunes. This history includes composer and musician William Duckworth's own story - the creation of "Cathedral", one of the first interactive works of music and art on the Web. From file sharing and nanotechnology to Brian Eno and Moby, Duckworth examines the complex, and at times controversial, new musical world presently developing online." -Back cover.

Author : PAUL D. GREENE.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:741453117

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Wired for Sound by PAUL D. GREENE. Pdf

Ethnographically-grounded studies of technology in global music.

Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Radio
ISBN : MSU:31293012268722

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Federal Communications Commission Reports by United States. Federal Communications Commission Pdf

Author : Robert Barry
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781910924877

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The Music of the Future by Robert Barry Pdf

The Music of the Future is not a book of predictions or speculations about how to save the music business or the bleeding edge of technologies. Rather, it's a history of failures, mapping 200 years of attempts by composers, performers and critics to imagine a future for music. Encompassing utopian dream cities, temporal dislocations and projects for the emancipation of all sounds, The Music of the Future is in the end a call to arms for everyone engaged in music: "to fail again, fail better."