About this title: Although the raw materials for experimentation in electronic music had been available from the beginning of the 20th century, with Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison's great discoveries in electricity and sound recording quickly being adapted for mass use, the form's real beginnings only came in the late 1940s with tape experiments made by Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry in France. In MODULATIONS, a fascinating accompaniment to Iara Lee's intriguing 1998 eponymous film, a variety of writers outlines the many forms the music has taken since mid-20th century composers first realized its ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc, Cranbury, New Jersey, U.S.a.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9781891024061ISBN:189102406X
Description: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Very Good, Hardback, No Dust Jacket, front cover warped, rubbed, 8 1/4" x 8 1/4", 255 pages, color-toned photos. read more
"Intended as an accompaniment to the film. Highly in depth in exploring the various and early genres in electronic music. Takes a thorough approach to production and over all importance of underground electronic music in a post rave, global community. Ponders on the importance of various forms and how they have or have not achieved heights and distances that were unintended by the original producers and champions of sound. I find the book to offer more robust content than the film in addition to a dozen more genre's. It is interesting to note that there is no mention of trance even in its pre-breakbeat, post acid house, ambient era."
"A very comprehensive and nearly complete overview of electronic music in the 20th century. Neary, because the history of electronic music is never complete, and the writers of this book will be the first to admit this. Also, the book mainly focusses on electronic dance music (ie. house, drum 'n' bass etc.) and less on 'serious' electronic music (ie. Cage, Stockhausen, Reich etc.).
I got more enthousiastic about something I was already enthousiastic about. Highly recommended for anyone who had a passion for music in general."
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