Any sound you can imagine : making music/consuming technology /

Main Author: Theberge, Paul.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hanover, NH : Wesleyan University Press : University Press of New England, c1997.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Technology, consumption, and musical practice
  • The industrial context of a "Revolution" in marketing and design
  • Invention and innovation in electronic instrument design
  • Consumption and "Democratization": Digital synthesizers, sounds and MIDI
  • Music periodicals, the instrument industry, and the mucisians' community
  • Communication networks and user groups: a musical democracy?
  • Music/technology/practice: Musical knowledge in action
  • The new "sound" of music: Technology and changing concepts of music
  • "Live" and recorded: MIDI sequencing, the home studio, and copyright
  • Conclusion: Toward a new model of musical production and consumption.