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The Sound of Innovation

Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution

by Andrew J. Nelson

ISBN: 9780262548946

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 15, 2023

How a team of musicians, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists developed computer music as an academic field and ushered in the era of digital music.

Hawkwind: Days of the Underground

Radical Escapism in the Age of Paranoia

by Joe Banks

ISBN: 9781907222849

Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

Pub Date: October 13, 2020

An account of the English rock band Hawkwind shows them to be one of the most innovative and culturally significant bands of the 1970s.

Michael Rakowitz

I'm good at love, I'm good at hate, it's in between I freeze

Edited by Anthony Downey

ISBN: 9783956794766

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Pub Date: March 17, 2020

An artist charts the historical context and aftermath of a concert—by Leonard Cohen at the Ramallah Cultural Palace in Palestine—that never happened.

Ways of Hearing

by Damon Krukowski

Foreword by Emily Thompson

ISBN: 9780262039642

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 9, 2019

A writer-musician examines how the switch from analog to digital audio is changing our perceptions of time, space, love, money, and power.

The Evolving Animal Orchestra

In Search of What Makes Us Musical

by Henkjan Honing

Translated by Sherry MacDonald

ISBN: 9780262039321

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 5, 2019

A music researcher's quest to discover other musical species.

The New Analog

Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World

by Damon Krukowski

ISBN: 9780262037914

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 3, 2017

A meditation on what was lost—and on what is worth preserving—in the movement away from analog music and culture.

England's Hidden Reverse

A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground

by David Keenan

ISBN: 9781907222177

Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

Pub Date: June 30, 2017

Obsessively researched biographies of the three seminal music groups Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound that also illuminates the history of the English underground scene.