Experimental Music Since 1970 by Jennie Gottschalk (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Experimental Music Since 1970 by Jennie Gottschalk What is experimental music today? This book offers an up to date survey of this field for anyone with an interest, from seasoned practitioners to curious readers. This book takes the stance that experimental music is not a limited historical event, but is a proliferation of approaches to sound that reveals much about present-day experience. An experimental work is not identifiable by its sound alone, but by the nature of the questions it poses and its openness to the sounding event.Experimentation is a way of working. It pushes past that which is known to discover what lies beyond it, finding new knowledge, forms, and relationships, or accepting a state of uncertainty. For each of these composers and sound artists, craft is developed and transformed in response to the questions they bring to their work. Scientific, perceptual, or social phenomena become catalysts in the operation of the work.These practices are not presented according to a chronology, a set of techniques, or social groupings. Instead, they are organized according to the content areas that are their subjects, including resonance, harmony, objects, shapes, perception, language, interaction, sites, and histories. Musical materials may be subject, among other treatments, to systemization, observation, examination, magnification, fragmentation, translation, or destabilization. These restless and exploratory modes of engagement have continued to develop over recent decades, expanding the scope of both musical practice and listening. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Jennie Gottschalk is a composer and independent scholar based in Boston. Since receiving a doctorate in composition from Northwestern University in 2008, she has traveled extensively to gather first-hand information about experimental music practices. For additional resources related to this book, please visit the authors website at soundexpanse.com. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Defining Features of Experimental Music1.1. Introduction1.2. Indeterminacy1.3. SilenceChapter 2: Scientific Approaches2.1. Acts of Discovery2.2. Harmonic Relations2.3. Playing with Numbers2.4. Learning by Making2.5. Finding Hidden SoundsChapter 3: Physicalities3.1. The Physicality of Performance3.2. Resonant Spaces3.3. Objects as Instruments3.4. From Shape to SoundChapter 4: Perception4.1. The Position of the Listener4.2. The Perception of TimeChapter 5: Information, Language, and Interaction5.1. Treatments of Sonic Information5.2. The Sounds of Living Beings5.3. Language5.4. InteractionChapter 6: Place and Time6.1. Mappings6.2. Site-Specific Works6.3. HistoriesChapter 7: AdvocatesAppendixIndex Review Experimental Music Since 1970 is destined to become a standard reference work. It is comprehensive and well organised, and it gives a good picture of the scope of the subject. ... Gottschalks book is somewhat like a brilliant encyclopedia with informative summary passages on various makers and elements of experimental music. ... I will certainly be putting [it] on my booklists for undergraduates. * The Wire *[Full of] lucid and engaging discussion of so much music new to me, which has had me scurrying to Youtube, download sites and the library to find examples. Gottschalks book is enthusiastic, highly readable and does not attempt to be too definitive in its explorations. * International Times *Readers hungry for a broader view of the field will be enticed here by the buffet of younger and lesser-known artists [in the Table of Contents] from all corners of the globe, as well as Anglo-American veterans and icons. * Journal of Sonic Studies *We have needed a reformulation of what experimental music now means, i.e., what has become since Michael Nyman took stock of it in 1974—and this book beautifully fulfills that requirement. Jennie Gottschalk takes a fresh and independent look at experimental music of the last forty years, finding both points of continuation from the previous era and many novel and heartening developments. It is also an adventure story with surprising twists and a panoramic cast of characters, like a novel in which works and ideas are the central figures, seemingly with a collective life of their own. * Michael Pisaro, Composer and Faculty Member, Composition and Experimental Sound Practices, California Institute of the Arts, USA *Reading Experimental Music Since 1970 it is impossible not to be dazzled first by the range and imagination of experimental music and sound art that is being made today, and second by the way in which Jennie Gottschalk has described and catalogued so much of it, so lucidly. Impeccably and authoritatively researched, by a writer who is both a practitioner and an astute observer, it deserves to be the go-to reference for years to come. * Tim Rutherford-Johnson, author of Music After The Fall: Modern Composition and Culture Since 1989, UK *This book is a unique achievement. Without catering to current fashions or well-worn academic assumptions, it transcends the limits of both journalism and traditional musicology to be both comprehensive and insightful. Reading it has helped me to ask new questions about a history that I thought I knew quite well. * David Dunn, Assistant Professor of Music, University of California Santa Cruz, USA * Promotional An international survey of experimental music since 1970. Review Quote We have needed a reformulation of what experimental music now means, i.e., what is has become since Michael Nyman took stock of it in 1974-and this book beautifully fulfills that requirement. Jennie Gottschalk takes a fresh and independent look at experimental music of the last forty years, finding both points of continuation from the previous era and many novel and heartening developments. It is also an adventure story with surprising twists and a panoramic cast of characters, like a novel in which works and ideas are the central figures, seemingly with a collective life of their own. Promotional "Headline" An international survey of experimental music since 1970. Feature First international survey to cover experimental music since the 1970s. Details ISBN1628922486 Year 2016 ISBN-10 1628922486 ISBN-13 9781628922486 Format Hardcover Short Title EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC SINCE 1970 Language English Media Book Author Jennie Gottschalk Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USA Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 780.904 Illustrations 40 b/w images Publication Date 2016-08-11 Pages 304 Affiliation Winchester College, UK UK Release Date 2016-08-11 NZ Release Date 2016-08-11 US Release Date 2016-08-11 Edited by Claire Webster Birth 1933 Position Classics Teacher Qualifications R.N., B.S.N., Ocn Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2016-07-26 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:98977022;

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