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        Sound Strategies

        Sound Strategies

        Sound Strategies

        Music As Ideological Apparatus

        by Pil and Galia Kollectiv

        Foreword by Juliet Jacques

        ISBN: 9781917319010

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: October 7, 2025

        A vital new theory of popular music considered as political strategy, from Industrial to Britpop.
        Fierce Dancing

        Fierce Dancing

        Fierce Dancing

        Adventures In The Underground

        by C. J. Stone

        ISBN: 9781917674089

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: October 7, 2025

        Body Music

        Body Music

        Body Music

        Phenomenologies of Sonic Gesture

        by Atau Tanaka

        ISBN: 9781913380410

        Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

        Pub Date: August 5, 2025

        On the visceral engagement of the body in musical performance, and how technological mediation can foster, or break, forms of audience empathy.
        Life of the Party

        Life of the Party

        Life of the Party

        by Harmony Holiday

        ISBN: 9781635902013

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: May 27, 2025

        An archive and annotation of Black music-performance culture, produced alongside Harmony Holiday's first solo museum exhibition, Black Backstage.
        Bat Girls and Acid Boys

        Bat Girls and Acid Boys

        Bat Girls and Acid Boys

        The Spontaneous Drawings of Leigh Bowery & Friends

        Edited by Richard Torry

        Foreword by Jonny Trunk

        ISBN: 9781917319003

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: May 27, 2025

        120 vivid "exquisite corpse" drawings made by the outrageous artist, performer, and designer Leigh Bowery with friends and collaborators during the 1980s and 1990s.
        Sex Is No Emergency

        Sex Is No Emergency

        Sex Is No Emergency

        Adventures in a Post Punk Wonderland

        by Dorothy Max Prior

        ISBN: 9781913689810

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: May 20, 2025

        Further adventures in psychedelic rock, ball room dancing, performance art, and parenting in 1980s Britain.
        Erik Satie Three Piece Suite

        Erik Satie Three Piece Suite

        Erik Satie Three Piece Suite

        by Ian Penman

        ISBN: 9781635902532

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: May 6, 2025

        A masterful study of the elusive French composer, on the centenary of his death.
        The SuperCollider Book

        The SuperCollider Book, second edition

        The SuperCollider Book

        Edited by Scott Wilson, David Cottle and Nick Collins

        Foreword by James McCartney

        ISBN: 9780262049702

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 29, 2025

        A comprehensive update of the essential reference to SuperCollider, with new material on machine learning, musical notation and score making, SC Tweets, alternative editors, parasite languages, non-standard synthesis, and the cross-platform GUI library.
        Desiderata

        Desiderata

        Desiderata

        by Lizzy Mercier Descloux

        Foreword by Patti Smith

        Translated by Emma Ramadan

        ISBN: 9781965874080

        Publisher: Inpatient Press

        Pub Date: March 11, 2025

        Musician Lizzy Mercier Descloux's kaleidoscopic foray into collage and poetry, translated and reprinted for the first time in 50 years.
        Building a Voice

        Building a Voice

        Building a Voice

        Sound, Surface, Skin

        by Zeynep Bulut

        ISBN: 9781913380885

        Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

        Pub Date: February 25, 2025

        On the emergence, embodiment, and mediation of voice as skin.
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