a| 9798765127551

a| eng

a| Collins, Nicolas d| 1954- 1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7029585 4| aut 9| 17709

a| Semi-Conducting: b| Rambles Through the Post-Cagean Thicket

a| New York b| Bloomsbury Academic c| 2025

a| ix-259 pages

a| A Hidden Switch -- I am Sitting in a Classroom -- Worlds of Music -- Four Ridiculously Large Speakers -- Interlude : Multitrack -- Playing with Chips -- The Infinite Amplification of Silence (or I Ching for Dummies) -- Old Guard Avant Garde -- Newcastle to Narvik -- The Eden Before Apple -- A Bright Red Electric Guitar -- Interlude : 33 1/3 -- Devil's Music -- Planes, Trains and Step-Down Transformers -- A Computer Walks into a Bar -- We Were All Seated Around the Campfire -- Interlude : Soundcheck -- Still Lives -- STEIM -- IRCAM with a Human Face -- Interlude : Silence -- Whistling in the Woods -- Strange Heaven -- Art School -- Interlude : How Things Work -- Hardware Hacking -- Salvage -- The Missing Switch -- Interlude : Things I'd Like to Own -- Surprise Me

a| "Written by a composer long immersed in new and experimental music this book provides a tour of the music, technologies and people that have transformed how we make, hear and think about sound over the past fifty years. As both a participant and critical observer in the post-Cagean musical landscape, Nicolas Collins uses anecdotes and analysis to survey the history and aesthetics of the musical avant-garde. It follows a personal chronology of observations and experiences with music, technology, economics and culture"-- Provided by publisher

a| Avant-garde 1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q102932 9| 21178

a| Popular music 1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q373342 9| 22015

a| Composing 1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q92186587 1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q11895763 9| 3076

a| Improvisation 1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1049625 9| 3640

a| Technology 1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q11016 9| 21633

c| BOO

a| boek

b| ORPH c| ORPH j| ORPH.AES COLL

d| 22650