Infinite music
Subtitle: imagining the next millennium of human music-making
By: Adam Harper
Publisher: Zero Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Winchester, UK; Washington, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781846949241
Subjects: Sound; Technological innovations; Composition (Music); Music; Philosophy and aesthetics; Recording and reproducing
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. All worlds; title: Musical variables. Paths of change; title: 'Building up' and 'breaking down' musical variables; title: Music before sounds; title: Specifying variables within a musical context, or 'Taking variables into account'; title: Music after sounds : non-sonic variables; title: A definition of music; title: Constraining variables: quantisation; title: Constraining variables: limiting ranges; title: Flexible music and concrete music; title: Configurations of musical variables: instruments; title: Configurations of musical variables: styles; title: Configurations of musical variables: works; title: Configurations and the variability of music as a whole; title: Welcome to music space. Cage's 'sound space'; title: Recognising variables; title: Constituting musical objects; title: Subsets, subspaces, concentric musical objects; title: Dimensions in sound space; title: Dimensions in music space; title: Using musical objects; title: The infinite variety of musical objects; title: The progressive specification of music space; title: Degrees of freedom; title: Extrapolating a music space from performance events; title: Music space and new music; title: Aesthetics and music space. Active, interested listening; title: Images of music; title: Images of styles and of music-itself; title: Musical canons; title: Modern music (Music beyond images); title: Music criticism and music-as-music-criticism; title: A definition of new music; title: Critical listening; title: Repetition, difference and images of music; title: The recurring specifics of style; title: Synthesis : between earth and elsewhere; title: Alien styles; title: Alien genres; title: New instruments; title: Epilogue. Into the future; title: Appendix. Alan Lomax's cantometrics system.