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Birthday wishlist #4:

Contents (280 pages):

“Recording Angels: The esoteric origins of the phonograph” by Erik Davis
“On The Mic: How amplification altered the voice for good” by Ian Penman
“The Jerrybuilt Future: The Sonic Arts Union, ONCE Group and MEV’s live electronics” by Christoph Cox
“Worship The Glitch: Digital music, electronic disturbance” by Rob Young
“The Eternal Drone: Good vibrations, ancient to future” by Marcus Boon
“Slapping Pythagoras: The battle for the music of the spheres” by Rob Young
“The Ragged Trousered Anthologist: Harry Smith and his worlds” by Peter Shapiro & Philip Smith
“The Solar Myth Approach: Sun Ra, Stockhausen, P-Funk, Hawkwind: the live space ritual” by Ken Hollings
“Humans, Are They Really Necessary?: Sound art, automata, musical sculpture” by David Toop
“Automating The Beat: The robotics of rhythm” by Peter Shapiro
“The Autobahn Goes On Forever: On the road with Kraftwerk, Neu!, Wim Wenders” by Biba Kopf
“Rock Concrète: Counterculture plugs into the academy” by Edwin Pouncey
“Deck Wreckers: The turntable as instrument” by Peter Shapiro
“Destroy All Music: The Futurists’ Art of Noises” by Mark Sinker
“The Limits Of Language: Sound poetry and Lettrism’s textual assault” by Julian Cowley
“The Music Of Chance: Cage, Kagel, Zorn: Chance operators, musical dice men” by Andy Hamilton
“Smiling Faces Sometimes: Soul music’s grinners and backstabbers” by Peter Shapiro
“Frames Of Freedom: Improvisation, otherness and the limits of spontaneity” by David Toop
“Generation Ecstasy: New York’s free jazz continuum” by Tom Roe

(via The Wire: Adventures in Modern Music: Shop)