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A study of the history of "serial thinking" in modern music (and architecture) from about 1950 to 2000, as a way of liberating the creative mind from the romantic compulsions of the past. With black and white, and a few color, illustrations. Out of print and scarce.
Condition: Very Good.
Item #832
The complete run (7 issues) of Electronic Music Review, a quarterly periodical established to provide a source of information and mode of discourse on all aspects regarding the developing field of electronic music. Contributors included some of the leading avant-garde composers, educators, writers, and engineers of the period including Bode, Stockhausen, Berio, LeCaine, Carlos, Mumma, Davies, Cary, Dolby, and Moog. Notably, these were composer Douglas Leedy's copies and he has signed his name to the front cover or inside cover of all issues. Leedy was involved with the West Coast.....
Item #668
An impressive deep dive into the legacy of the Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis' innovations in music notation for contemporary composers. Trained in mechanical engineering, Xenakis transformed mathematical models into architectonic musical entities and in the late 1970s developed a digital apparatus that rendered waveforms drawn on a tablet as musical compositions. The device was called UPIC, or Unité Polyagogique Informatique du CEMAMu, named for the French contemporary music research institute that Xenakis had helped found a decade earlier. The device proved to be an essential tool for the development of.....
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