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Subcontinental Synthesis

Subcontinental Synthesis

Subcontinental Synthesis

Electronic Music at the National Institute of Design, India 1969–1972

Edited by Paul Purgas

ISBN: 9781913689582

Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

Pub Date: July 25, 2023

The history of India's first electronic music studio founded in 1969 at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad by David Tudor.
Two-Headed Doctor

Two-Headed Doctor

Two-Headed Doctor

Listening For Ghosts in Dr. John's Gris-Gris

by David Toop

ISBN: 9781913689605

Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

Pub Date: July 25, 2023

A forensic investigation into a single LP: Dr. John, the night tripper's Gris-gris.
Parody in the Age of Remix

Parody in the Age of Remix

Parody in the Age of Remix

Mashup Creativity vs. the Takedown

by Ragnhild Brøvig

ISBN: 9780262545396

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: June 27, 2023

The art of mashup music, its roots in parody, and its social and legal implications.
Music from Elsewhere

Music from Elsewhere

Music from Elsewhere

Haunting Tunes from the Afterlife, Alien Worlds and Occult Realms

by Doug Skinner

ISBN: 9781913689216

Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

Pub Date: June 13, 2023

A compendium of other musics, channeled from the spirit world, the fairy kingdom, outer space, secret societies and occult lodges.
Tainted Love

Tainted Love

Tainted Love

From Nina Simone to Kendrick Lamar

by Alex Coles

ISBN: 9783956796586

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Pub Date: June 13, 2023

On the development of the twisted romantic ballad in contemporary popular song, from Serge Gainsbourg to Tyler, the Creator.
The Science-Music Borderlands

The Science-Music Borderlands

The Science-Music Borderlands

Reckoning with the Past and Imagining the Future

Edited by Elizabeth H. Margulis, Psyche Loui and Deirdre Loughridge

ISBN: 9780262047647

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 2, 2023

Interdisciplinary essays on music psychology that integrate scientific, humanistic, and artistic ways of knowing in transformative ways.
Bone Music

Bone Music

Bone Music

Soviet X-Ray Audio

Edited by Stephen Coates

ISBN: 9781913689476

Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

Pub Date: January 10, 2023

Stories of the secret underground Cold War–era Soviet music subculture that distributed forbidden music on used hospital x-rays.
Sound Actions

Sound Actions

Sound Actions

Conceptualizing Musical Instruments

by Alexander Refsum Jensenius

ISBN: 9780262544634

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: December 13, 2022

A techno-cognitive look at how new technologies are shaping the future of musicking.
Harry Smith

Harry Smith, revised and expanded edition

Harry Smith

American Magus

Edited by Paola Igliori

ISBN: 9781635901641

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: November 29, 2022

A privileged look into the life and artistic practice of the experimental filmmaker, music anthologist, and enigmatic polymath Harry Smith.
Sounding Bodies

Sounding Bodies

Sounding Bodies

Music and the Making of Biomedical Science

by Peter Pesic

ISBN: 9780262046350

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 11, 2022

The unfolding influence of music and sound on the fundamental structure of the biomedical sciences, from ancient times to the present.
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