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Take This Hammer
Work, Song, and Crisis
ISBN: 9781913380168
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Pub Date: April 30, 2024
A study of contemporary music in light of transformations to work and social life.
Life of the Party
ISBN: 9781635902013
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pub Date: March 19, 2024
An archive and annotation of Black music-performance culture, produced alongside Harmony Holiday's first solo museum exhibition, Black Backstage.
Psychoacoustic Foundations of Major-Minor Tonality
ISBN: 9780262547352
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 13, 2024
A fascinating interdisciplinary approach to how everyday Western music works, and why the tones, melodies, and chords combine as they do.
The Shrine Thief
ISBN: 9781949597295
Publisher: Terra Nova Press
Pub Date: January 9, 2024
A renowned musician in his 85th year explores the nature of wisdom, how we learn to recognize it, and how we pass it forward.
Subcontinental Synthesis
Electronic Music at the National Institute of Design, India 1969–1972
ISBN: 9781913689582
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: January 9, 2024
The history of India's first electronic music studio founded in 1969 at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad by David Tudor.
Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending
An Incredible String Band Compendium
ISBN: 9781913689506
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: December 26, 2023
A wide-ranging collection of interviews, anecdotes, essays, and ephemera concerning one of the most enigmatic bands to emerge from the 1960s hippy scene.
Two-Headed Doctor
Listening For Ghosts in Dr. John's Gris-Gris
ISBN: 9781913689605
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: December 26, 2023
A forensic investigation into a single LP: Dr. John, the night tripper's Gris-gris.
Digital Signatures
The Impact of Digitization on Popular Music Sound
ISBN: 9780262549639
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
How sonically distinctive digital “signatures”—including reverb, glitches, and autotuning—affect the aesthetics of popular music, analyzed in works by Prince, Lady Gaga, and others.
The Sound of Innovation
Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution
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.

Take This Hammer
Work, Song, and Crisis
ISBN: 9781913380168
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Pub Date: April 30, 2024
A study of contemporary music in light of transformations to work and social life.
Life of the Party
ISBN: 9781635902013
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pub Date: March 19, 2024
An archive and annotation of Black music-performance culture, produced alongside Harmony Holiday's first solo museum exhibition, Black Backstage.
Psychoacoustic Foundations of Major-Minor Tonality
ISBN: 9780262547352
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 13, 2024
A fascinating interdisciplinary approach to how everyday Western music works, and why the tones, melodies, and chords combine as they do.
The Shrine Thief
ISBN: 9781949597295
Publisher: Terra Nova Press
Pub Date: January 9, 2024
A renowned musician in his 85th year explores the nature of wisdom, how we learn to recognize it, and how we pass it forward.
Subcontinental Synthesis
Electronic Music at the National Institute of Design, India 1969–1972
ISBN: 9781913689582
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: January 9, 2024
The history of India's first electronic music studio founded in 1969 at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad by David Tudor.
Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending
An Incredible String Band Compendium
ISBN: 9781913689506
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: December 26, 2023
A wide-ranging collection of interviews, anecdotes, essays, and ephemera concerning one of the most enigmatic bands to emerge from the 1960s hippy scene.
Two-Headed Doctor
Listening For Ghosts in Dr. John's Gris-Gris
ISBN: 9781913689605
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: December 26, 2023
A forensic investigation into a single LP: Dr. John, the night tripper's Gris-gris.
Digital Signatures
The Impact of Digitization on Popular Music Sound
ISBN: 9780262549639
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
How sonically distinctive digital “signatures”—including reverb, glitches, and autotuning—affect the aesthetics of popular music, analyzed in works by Prince, Lady Gaga, and others.
The Sound of Innovation
Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution
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.