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At a music school in Cambridge, MA, while I waited for my daughter's lesson to finish, I happened across a VERY old book called New Directions In Music. It's roughly JFK-era, if memory serves, so it covers the great early electronic musicians from a fascinating perspective...e.g., back then, tube oscillators were nowsville, daddy-o! (LOL) I'm gonna look for a copy. Yours in Sound, Tim Mungenast www.mungenast.com > [Original Message] > From: <Aptrev@aol.com> > To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> > Date: 10/11/2004 10:56:40 PM > Subject: book review > > > I recently came across a book at my local alt. bookstore, bought it and have > been enjoying it so I thought it worth a mention. > > The book is: > > Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music > edited by Cox & Warner > ISBN 0-8264-1615-2 > paperback 454 pgs. > > It is an anthology of short writings by a variety of contributors: John Cage, > Brian Eno, Pauline Oliveros, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Glenn Gould, Chris Cutler > and many more. > > Organized into 2 main parts, Theory and Practice, the subsections >include: > > Music and Its Others: Noise, Sound, Silence > Modes of Listening > Experimental Musics > Improvised Musics > Minimalisms > DJ Culture > Electronica > > Short bursts of ideas, concepts, opinions and perspectives that permit abrupt > jumping around of topic, provoking thoughts and possibilities. > > Starting points and stepping stones, I am fond of these sorts of > compilations, great for picking up and putting down at random moments. > > BobC > > > www.cdbaby.com/rpcollier > http://trundlebox.iuma.com > http://tinyurl.com/yuru7