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During the Cold War era, the songs that Soviet citizens could listen to were ruthlessly controlled by the state. But a secret underground subculture of music lovers and bootleggers defied the censors, building recording machines and making their own records of forbidden jazz, rock 'n' roll, and Russian music, cut onto used hospital x-ray film. Foregrounding interviews(...)
Bone music: Soviet X-Ray audio
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During the Cold War era, the songs that Soviet citizens could listen to were ruthlessly controlled by the state. But a secret underground subculture of music lovers and bootleggers defied the censors, building recording machines and making their own records of forbidden jazz, rock 'n' roll, and Russian music, cut onto used hospital x-ray film. Foregrounding interviews and oral testimonies gathered over five years, this volume presents the stories of the original bone bootleggers, their customers, musicians, record collectors, and commentators, evoking a spirited resistance to a repressive culture of prohibition and punishment. Richly illustrated with dozens of new images of Soviet x-ray discs and sound letters, the book details how the bootleggers worked, outlining the technical precedents of their techniques, situating their discs in a revised history of recorded media, and bringing a wealth of compelling new detail.
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The nomadic listener
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Based on the author’s artistic research on migration, contemporary urban experience, and sonic alienation, ''The nomadic listener'' is composed of a series of texts stemming from psychogeographic explorations of contemporary cities, including Copenhagen, Berlin, Kolkata, Vienna, Delhi, Hong Kong, Mumbai and New York, among others. Each text is an act of listening, where(...)
The nomadic listener
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Based on the author’s artistic research on migration, contemporary urban experience, and sonic alienation, ''The nomadic listener'' is composed of a series of texts stemming from psychogeographic explorations of contemporary cities, including Copenhagen, Berlin, Kolkata, Vienna, Delhi, Hong Kong, Mumbai and New York, among others. Each text is an act of listening, where the author records his surrounding environment and attunes to the sonic fluctuations of movement and the passing of events. What surfaces is a collection of meditations on the occurrences of life movingly interwoven with memories, associations, desires and reflections. As readers we are brought into a tender map of contemporary urban experience, and the often lonely, surprising and random interactions found in traveling.''The nomadic listener'' includes parallel drawings based on the original audio recordings, and appear as ghostly renderings of the corresponding experiences. The recordings are published by the German label Gruenrekorder and accessed through a QR code included in the book.
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A rare document of the 1960s Black Arts Movement, “The Cricket” fostered critical and political dialogue for Black musicians and writers. Edited by poets and writers Amiri Baraka, A.B. Spellman, and Larry Neal between 1968 and 1969 and published by Baraka’s New Jersey–based Jihad productions shortly after the time of the Newark Riots, this experimental music magazine ran(...)
The Cricket: Black music in evolution, 1968-69
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A rare document of the 1960s Black Arts Movement, “The Cricket” fostered critical and political dialogue for Black musicians and writers. Edited by poets and writers Amiri Baraka, A.B. Spellman, and Larry Neal between 1968 and 1969 and published by Baraka’s New Jersey–based Jihad productions shortly after the time of the Newark Riots, this experimental music magazine ran poetry, position papers, and gossip alongside concert and record reviews and essays on music and politics. Over four mimeographed issues, “The Cricket” laid out an anticommercial ideology and took aim at the conservative jazz press, providing a space for critics, poets, and journalists, and a range of musicians to devise new styles of music writing. This publication gathers all issues of the magazine.
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In this publication, Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration. Focusing on the work of three contemporary musicians—Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Pran Nath, Swedish drone composer and philosopher Catherine Christer Hennix, and Houston-based hip-hop musician DJ Screw—Boon outlines how music constructs a vibrational space of individual and(...)
The politics of vibration: Music as cosmopolitical practice
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In this publication, Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration. Focusing on the work of three contemporary musicians—Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Pran Nath, Swedish drone composer and philosopher Catherine Christer Hennix, and Houston-based hip-hop musician DJ Screw—Boon outlines how music constructs a vibrational space of individual and collective transformation. Contributing to a new interdisciplinary field of vibration studies, he understands vibration as a mathematical and a physical concept, as a religious or ontological force, and as a psychological determinant of subjectivity. Boon contends that music, as a shaping of vibration, needs to be recognized as a cosmopolitical practice—in the sense introduced by Isabelle Stengers—in which what music is within a society depends on what kinds of access to vibration are permitted, and to whom. This politics of vibration constitutes the hidden ontology of contemporary music because the organization of vibration shapes individual music scenes as well as the ethical choices that participants in these scenes make about how they want to live in the world.
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Dire le 'sonore' a été une des gageures de l’écriture esthétique et, au XXe siècle, on aura plus largement insisté sur la structure et la forme, au détriment de la sensation, en affirmant la toute-puissance du discours. Mais il suffit de porter l’oreille à une conque marine pour que le son de la mer qu’on y entend, ébranle les édifices, mette à bas les échafaudages(...)
Les mots et les sons : Un archipel sonore
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Dire le 'sonore' a été une des gageures de l’écriture esthétique et, au XXe siècle, on aura plus largement insisté sur la structure et la forme, au détriment de la sensation, en affirmant la toute-puissance du discours. Mais il suffit de porter l’oreille à une conque marine pour que le son de la mer qu’on y entend, ébranle les édifices, mette à bas les échafaudages rhétoriques de « ce qu’entendre veut dire ». Dans ce livre, François J. Bonnet explore les voix fantômes, l’inframince du son, le sampling, la phonographie et les résonances dont notre univers est peuplé et qui échappent aujourd’hui à la forme traditionnelle de l’écoute. Il ouvre sur des archipels sonores inouïs, éphémères et précaires comme les TAZs (Zones autonomes temporaires), mais riches de nouvelles expériences d’écoute, propres à éduquer nos oreilles à mieux entendre l’imperceptible.
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The Sound Studies Reader
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The Sound Studies Reader is a groundbreaking anthology blending recent work that self-consciously describes itself as 'sound studies' with earlier and lesser known scholarship on sound. The collection begins with an introduction to welcome novice readers to the field and acquaint them with key themes and concepts in sound studies. Individual section introductions give(...)
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The Sound Studies Reader is a groundbreaking anthology blending recent work that self-consciously describes itself as 'sound studies' with earlier and lesser known scholarship on sound. The collection begins with an introduction to welcome novice readers to the field and acquaint them with key themes and concepts in sound studies. Individual section introductions give readers further background on the essays and an extensive up to date bibliography for further reading in 'sound studies' make this an original and accessible guide to the field.
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Cette musique déroule le temps lentement, se déplie et se déploie, mais ne se feuillette pas à la légère. Et elle est essentiellement un exercice de solitaire, ou en tout cas une musique que l’on écoute à la maison le plus souvent seul et lorsque l’on voudrait voir la nuit tomber très vite. Impossible de la faire tenir dans un ipod, impossible non plus d’en parler dans(...)
La Monte Young : une biographie suivie d'une discographie sélective sur le minimalisme
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Cette musique déroule le temps lentement, se déplie et se déploie, mais ne se feuillette pas à la légère. Et elle est essentiellement un exercice de solitaire, ou en tout cas une musique que l’on écoute à la maison le plus souvent seul et lorsque l’on voudrait voir la nuit tomber très vite. Impossible de la faire tenir dans un ipod, impossible non plus d’en parler dans les dîners mondains. Essayez d’expliquer à votre voisin de table ou de bureau que vous écoutez un disque de La Monte Young, il commencera par ne pas vous comprendre, vous demander de répéter ce nom étrange, pour finir par se dire que vous n’êtes sans doute pas tout à fait normal. Ce qu’il ignore, c’est qu’au-delà de La Monte Young, existe un univers foisonnant de musiciens anxieux et avides de créer une musique suspendue, tenue longtemps, lentement, qui prend son temps.
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Des futuristes des années 1910 aux réductionnistes à l’amorce des années 2000, l’histoire de la musique du vingtième siècle (et du vingt-et-unième naissant) aura été marquée par l’idée d’expérimentation. Celle-ci, et pas seulement dans l’avant-garde, paraît s’être exprimée dans tous les domaines apparus alors, qu’il s’agisse entre autres de la musique électroacoustique,(...)
Musiques expérimentales : une anthologie transversale d'enregistrements emblématiques
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Des futuristes des années 1910 aux réductionnistes à l’amorce des années 2000, l’histoire de la musique du vingtième siècle (et du vingt-et-unième naissant) aura été marquée par l’idée d’expérimentation. Celle-ci, et pas seulement dans l’avant-garde, paraît s’être exprimée dans tous les domaines apparus alors, qu’il s’agisse entre autres de la musique électroacoustique, du jazz (quand celui-ci s’est dit « free » par exemple) ou du rock (qu’il ait été « kraut » dans les années 1970 en Allemagne, « en opposition » au milieu des mêmes années en Europe, ou encore « bruitiste » au Japon dans les années 1990). Comme si la musique, quand elle souhaite échapper à l’intimidation dominante, devait perpétuellement s’inventer afin de continuer à être. Voilà l’histoire que raconte cette anthologie, au travers d’indomptables réfractaires à toute forme d’académisme.
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In Sonic Somatic, the sound artist and theorist Christof Migone looks at sound art's overlap with other disciplines through its particular uses of articulation. Articulation is explored here in all of its guises: its negation as silence, its interruption in stuttering and its somatic ramifications in the human body. Migone looks at French playwright and poet Antonin(...)
Sonic somatic: performances of the unsound body
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In Sonic Somatic, the sound artist and theorist Christof Migone looks at sound art's overlap with other disciplines through its particular uses of articulation. Articulation is explored here in all of its guises: its negation as silence, its interruption in stuttering and its somatic ramifications in the human body. Migone looks at French playwright and poet Antonin Artaud's writings, with their implications of strangled speech and glossolalia; American composer Alvin Lucier's groundbreaking 1969 recording “I Am Sitting in a Room”; Erik Satie's looped composition “Vexations”; Marina Abramovic's confrontational performance “Rhythm 0”; Adrian Piper's “Untitled Performance for Max's Kansas City”; Herman Melville's short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener”; Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson's documentary film First Contact; and of course the work that most looms over this topic: John Cage's paradigm-shifting 1952 composition “4'33” .”
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The relationship between architecture and music has a long and difficult history. The subject is usually examined from the perspective of one particular discipline or the other. Music, Space and Architecture offers a multidisciplinary approach. Contributors raise the question of how does sound (and music) influence the atmosphere of a building and visa versa. What makes(...)
Music, space and architecture
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The relationship between architecture and music has a long and difficult history. The subject is usually examined from the perspective of one particular discipline or the other. Music, Space and Architecture offers a multidisciplinary approach. Contributors raise the question of how does sound (and music) influence the atmosphere of a building and visa versa. What makes the perfect music hall?
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