Music
An Album in Words
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- 'A dizzying display of imagination' Paul Griffiths, TLS
- 'There is no one better to have written The Music than the king of found sound . . . An entire game-changing performance' DJ Mag
In the last hundred years – between the invention of the microphone and the computer – music has undergone a profound revolution. No longer confined to specifically designed instruments, we can now make music out of anything. Les mer
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In the last hundred years – between the invention of the microphone and the computer – music has undergone a profound revolution. No longer confined to specifically designed instruments, we can now make music out of anything. Why use a guitar when you can use a lawnmower? Why use a lawnmower when you can use an explosion in Libya? The Music evokes a shifting sonic landscape in precise detail: Chinese concrete slowly hardening, overlaid by a splintering cassette tape in the stereo of a car mid-crash. The noise of 73,984 insects hitting number plates followed by that of a drill striking oil deep beneath the earth’s surface. Or just the silence of two unfamiliar people as they look up at the night sky. As well as being a description of an imagined album, this book is a manifesto for sound, challenging how we hear the world itself, while listening to stories about humanity and our place in that world.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Unbound
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781800181540
- Utgivelsesår
- 2022
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
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- 'A dizzying display of imagination' Paul Griffiths, TLS
- 'There is no one better to have written The Music than the king of found sound . . . An entire game-changing performance' DJ Mag