Digital and Experimental Music: Know-how, Music, and Tradition

Digital and Experimental Music: Know-how, Music, and Tradition, Sixth Version, presents an intensive historical past of digital music―from its historic beginnings within the late nineteenth century to its everchanging current―recounting the musical concepts that arose in parallel with technological progress. In 4 elements, the writer particulars the basics of digital music, its historical past, the foremost synthesizer innovators, and modern practices. This examination of the music’s experimental roots covers the important thing composers, genres, and strategies utilized in analog and digital synthesis, together with each artwork and well-liked music, Western and non-Western.

New to this version:

• A reorganized and revised chapter construction locations technological advances inside a historic framework.
• Shorter chapters provide better modularity and adaptability for instructors.
• Discussions on the weather of sound, listening to digital music, digital music within the mainstream, Eurorack, and extra.
• An appendix of traditionally essential digital music studios across the globe.

Listening Guides all through the guide present step-by-step annotations of key musical works, focusing the event of pupil listening expertise. That includes in depth revisions and expanded protection, this sixth version of Digital and Experimental Music represents an complete accounting of the know-how, musical types, and figures related to digital music, highlighting the music’s deep cultural influence.