Music Beyond Airports

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ISBN 13 : 9781862181618
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music for Airports written by and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays has been assembled and developed from papers given at the Ambient@40 International Conference held in February 2018 at the University of Huddersfield. The original premise of the conference was not merely to celebrate Enos work and the landmark release of Music for Airports in 1978, but to consider the development of the genre, how it has permeated our wider musical culture, and what the role of such music is today given the societal changes that have occurred since the release of that album. In the context of the conference, ambient was considered from the perspectives of aesthetic, influence, appropriation, process, strategy and activity. A detailed consideration of each of these topics could fill many volumes. With that in mind, this book does not seek to provide an in-depth analysis of each of these topics or a comprehensive history of the last 40 years of ambient music. Rather it provides a series of provocations, observations and reflections that each open up seams for further discussion. As such, this book should be read as a starting point for future research, one that seeks to critically interrogate the very meaning of ambient, how it creates its effect, and how the genre can remain vital and relevant in twenty-first century music-making.

Author : Simon Cummings
Publisher : Saint Philip Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013293924
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music Beyond Airports written by Simon Cummings and published by Saint Philip Street Press. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays has been assembled and developed from papers given at the Ambient@40 International Conference held in February 2018 at the University of Huddersfield. The original premise of the conference was not merely to celebrate Eno's work and the landmark release of Music for Airports in 1978, but to consider the development of the genre, how it has permeated our wider musical culture, and what the role of such music is today given the societal changes that have occurred since the release of that album. In the context of the conference, ambient was considered from the perspectives of aesthetic, influence, appropriation, process, strategy and activity. A detailed consideration of each of these topics could fill many volumes. With that in mind, this book does not seek to provide an in-depth analysis of each of these topics or a comprehensive history of the last 40 years of ambient music. Rather it provides a series of provocations, observations and reflections that each open up seams for further discussion. As such, this book should be read as a starting point for future research, one that seeks to critically interrogate the very meaning of 'ambient', how it creates its effect, and how the genre can remain vital and relevant in twenty-first century music-making. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : John T. Lysaker
Publisher : Oxford Keynotes
ISBN 13 : 0190497297
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports written by John T. Lysaker and published by Oxford Keynotes. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Eno's seminal album Ambient 1: Music for Airports continues to fascinate and charm audiences, not only as a masterpiece of ambient music, but as a powerful and transformative work of art. Author John T. Lysaker situates this album in the context of twentieth-century art music, where its ambitions and contributions to avant garde music practice become even more apparent. To appreciate the album's multifaceted character, Lysaker advocates for "prismatic listening," an attentiveness that continually shifts registers in the knowledge that no single approach can grasp the work as a whole. Exploring each of the album's four tracks and their unique sonic arrangements, Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports argues that the album must be approached from at least three angles: as an ambient contribution to lived environments that draws upon cybernetics and the experiments of Erik Satie, as an exploration of what John Cage has termed the "activity of sounds," and as a work of conceptual art that asks us to think freshly about artistic creativity, listening, and the broad ecology of interactions that not only make art possible, but the full range of human meaning. If one listens in this way, Music for Airports becomes a sonic image that blurs the nature-culture distinction and rescues the most interesting concerns of avant-garde music from the social isolation of concert halls and performance spaces.

Author : Christopher Partridge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350286990
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music written by Christopher Partridge and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music provides an updated, state-of-the-art analysis of the most important themes and concepts in the field, combining research in religious studies, theology, critical musicology, cultural analysis, and sociology. It comprises 30 updated essays and six new chapters covering the following areas: · Popular Music, Religion, and Performance · Musicological Perspectives · Popular Music and Religious Syncretism · Atheism and Popular Music · Industrial Music and Noise · K-pop The Handbook continues to provide a guide to methodology, key genres and popular music subcultures, as well as an extensive updated bibliography. It remains the essential tool for anyone with an interest in popular culture generally and religion and popular music in particular.

Author : William Gibbons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197556167
Total Pages : 977 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Video Game Music and Sound written by William Gibbons and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 977 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together dozens of leading scholars from across the world to address topics from pinball to the latest in virtual reality, The Oxford Handbook of Video Game Music and Sound is the most comprehensive and multifaceted single-volume source in the rapidly expanding field of game audio research.

Author : Russ Hepworth-Sawyer
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000283674
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innovation in Music written by Russ Hepworth-Sawyer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation in Music: Future Opportunities brings together cutting-edge research on new innovations in the field of music production, technology, performance and business. Including contributions from a host of well-respected researchers and practitioners, this volume provides crucial coverage on a range of topics from cybersecurity, to accessible music technology, performance techniques and the role of talent shows within music business. Innovation in Music: Future Opportunities is the perfect companion for professionals and researchers alike with an interest in the music industry.

Author : Julie Jaffee Nagel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538168405
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Career Choices in Music beyond the Pandemic written by Julie Jaffee Nagel and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A must-read for musicians young and old as well as general readers.” — Joseph W. Polisi, President Emeritus, The Juilliard School Choosing a career is one of the most important decisions we make in our lifetime. Career choice is more than just working to earn a living but also an important window into how we feel about ourselves. In this groundbreaking and provocative book, musician and psychologist Julie Jaffee Nagel explores how musicians’ work beyond the COVID-19 pandemic casts a light upon the necessity of rethinking, rebuilding, and possibly redesigning our concept of careers and music education in the arts. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to a wide range of pressing topics such as career disillusionment, mental health in relation to lack of professional and personal security, the unavailability of jobs that reflect the depth of the musician’s formal training and talent, and the healing role and value of musicians in a post-pandemic world. The pandemic was an unwelcome and sudden shock in the lives and careers of countless musicians, with many experiencing crises. Importantly, Nagel emphasizes that this trauma also has the potential to energize and expand horizons for rewarding, creative work. Musicians’ gifts include resilience and discipline, and their art has important social value. Music has the power to be an aural antidote to some of society’s ills—during trying times, it is vitally important to express and share the musician’s artistic imagination and creativity in teaching studios, on stage, and through off stage interactions with others.

Author : Jan-Olof Gullö
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 100384796X
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innovation in Music: Technology and Creativity written by Jan-Olof Gullö and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-03-27 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation in Music: Technology and Creativity is a groundbreaking collection bringing together contributions from instructors, researchers, and professionals. Split into two sections, covering composition and performance, and technology and innovation, this volume offers truly international perspectives on ever-evolving practices. Including chapters on audience interaction, dynamic music methods, AI, and live electronic performances, this is recommended reading for professionals, students, and researchers looking for global insights into the fields of music production, music business, and music technology.

Author : Michiel Kamp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197651224
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Ways of Hearing Video Game Music written by Michiel Kamp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four Ways of Hearing Video Game Music offers a phenomenological approach to music in video games. Drawing on past phenomenological approaches to music as well as studies of music listening in a variety of disciplines such as aesthetics and ecological psychology, author Michiel Kamp explains four main ways of hearing the same piece of music--through background, aesthetic, ludic, and semiotic hearing.

Author : Victor Szabo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190699302
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off written by Victor Szabo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off: Ambient Music's Psychedelic Past rethinks the history and socioaesthetics of ambient music as a popular genre with roots in the psychedelic countercultures of the late twentieth century. Victor Szabo reveals how anglophone audio producers and DJs between the mid-1960s and century's end commodified drone- and loop-based records as "ambient audio": slow, spare, spacious audio sold as artful personal media for creating atmosphere, fostering contemplation, transforming awareness, and stilling the body. The book takes a trip through landmark ambient audio productions and related discourses, including marketing rhetoric, artist manifestos and interviews, and music criticism, that during this time plotted the conventions of what became known as ambient music. These productions include nature sounds records, experimental avant-garde pieces, "space music" radio, psychedelic and cosmic rock albums, electronic dance music compilations, and of course, explicitly "ambient" music, all of which popularized ambient audio through vivid atmospheric concepts. In paying special attention to the sound of ambient audio; to ambient audio's relationship with the psychedelic, New Age, and rave countercultures of the US and UK; and to the coincident evolution of therapeutic audio and "head music" across alternative media and independent music markets, this history resituates ambient music as a hip highbrow framing and stylization of ongoing practices in crafting audio to alter consciousness, comportment, and mood. In so doing, Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off illuminates the social and aesthetic rifts and alliances informing one of today's most popular musical experimentalisms.