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  • Kraftwerk

    Future Music from Germany

    by Uwe Schütte ...
    The story of the phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, and how they revolutionised our cultural landscape'We are not artists nor musicians. We are workers.' Ignoring nearly all rock traditions, expermenting in near-total secrecy in their Düsseldorf studio, Kraftwerk fused sound and technology, graphic design and performance, modernist Bauhaus aesthetics and Rhineland industrialisation - even human and ... Read more

    ₹450.63

  • Party Lines

    Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain

    by Ed Gillett ...
    'An excellent history of UK dance culture' – The Sunday Times'Engrossing history' – The ObserverFrom the illicit reggae blues dances and acid-rock free festivals of the 1970s, through the ecstasy-fuelled Second Summer of Love in 1988 to the increasingly corporate dance music culture of the post-Covid era, Party Lines is a groundbreaking new history of UK dance music from journalist and filmmaker ... Read more

    ₹572.29

  • Weep, Shudder, Die

    A Guide to Loving Opera

    by Robert Levine ...
    "Icouldn't imagine a finer or livelier guide through the world of opera. . . . [Levine] distills a lifetime of passion and insight into this immenselyenjoyable survey, and with the right comic touch to make you wonder how operaever seemed intimidating." —Thomas May, author of Decoding WagnerDespitethe popular success of the Metropolitan Opera’s “Live in HD” series, opera’s grandworld of soaring ... Read more

    ₹1,754.77

  • Annihilating Noise

    by Paul Hegarty ...
    Noise has become a model of cultural and theoretical thinking over the last two decades. Following Hegarty's influential 2007 book, Noise/Music, Annihilating Noise discusses in sixteen essays how noise offers a way of thinking about critical resistance, disruptive creativity and a complex yet enticing way of understanding the unexpected, the dissonant, the unfamiliar.It presents noise as a ... Read more

    ₹2,346.42

  • A Revolution in Music

    The History of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales

    by Évelyne Gayou ...
    Established in the 1950s by musician and engineer Pierre Schaeffer, the Groupe de Recherches Musicales would become the nerve center for avant-garde artists experimenting with sound and acoustics, as well as the birthplace of a genre of music-making enabled by new recording technologies and sound pioneers: musique concrète. Évelyne Gayou—herself a researcher, composer, and producer at the GRM ... Read more

    ₹4,092.23

  • Loops 2

    Una historia de la música electrónica en el siglo XXI

    by Javier Blánquez Gómez ...
    Una historia intensa y apasionada sobre el último siglo de un género musical que hipnotiza a multitudes: la música electrónica.«Una de las biblias de la electrónica.»Abraham Rivera, El País***Loops 2***retoma la historia de la música electrónica dónde la dejó el primer volumen, una obra canónica para los amantes del género. Desde 2002 hasta la actualidad, el periodista Javier Blánquez cubre la ... Read more

    ₹1,023.45

  • Kraftwerk: I Was a Robot

    by Wolfgang Flür ...
    Wolfgang Flür was vital cog in the Kraftwerk machine, galvanising the group’s electric drum sound throughout the 1970’s and propelling the rhythmic backbone of iconic albums such as Autobahn and Electric Café.I Was A Robot is a detailed, evocative account, written in Flür’s no-nonsense style. It takes us from his youth into the band’s formation and touring of their influential works, laying bare ... Read more

    ₹1,431.56

  • Violin Dreams

    by Arnold Steinhardt ...
    “A rapturous, witty, and passionate memoir ... Violin Dreams is not only the story of a man becoming an artist, it’s a history of twentieth-century music.” — John Guare, Tony Award–winning playwrightArnold Steinhardt, for more than forty years an international soloist and the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet, brings warmth, wit, and fascinating insider details to the story of his ... Read more

    ₹1,595.23

  • Rave Alone! A Coming of Age Story

    The Original Screenplay

    by Macarena Luz Bianchi ...
    Rave Alone! A Coming of Age Story: The Original Screenplay includes the movie synopsis, full script, and details about the production process from inception to now.The motion picture is set in Miami in 2001. It is about a 15-year-old boy who blackmails his sister into taking him to a rave. In a time before the proliferation of the mobile phone, he gets lost. He gets into trouble, has an adventure, ... Read more

    ₹567.23 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Live Wires

    A History of Electronic Music

    by Daniel Warner ...
    We live in an electronic world. Electronic sounds and electronic music have long permeated our sonic landscape. What began as the otherworldly sounds of the film score for the 1956 film Forbidden Planet and the rarefied, new timbres of Stockhausen’s Kontakte a few years later, is now a common soundscape in technology, media and an array of musical genres and subgenres. More people than ever before ... Read more

    ₹1,642.55

  • The Prodigy - Uncensored On the Record

    by Peter Sorel-Cameron and James McCarthy ...
    For having made rave music before, during and after the death of the scene, for having invented dance rock, and for shocking the entire world, The Prodigy are one of the greatest and most influential acts of the last 20 years. Having sold over 25 million records worldwide, The Prodigy continue to show how a huge number of influences can form one cohesive style of music. Whilst never conforming to ... Read more

    ₹339.88

  • Four Ways of Hearing Video Game Music

    by Michiel Kamp ...
    Series series Oxford Music / Media
    Four Ways of Hearing Video Game Music offers a novel account of the ways in which video games invite us to hear and listen to their music. By taking a phenomenological approach to characterize music in video games, author Michiel Kamp asks what it is we hear in the music when we play a game. Drawing on past phenomenological approaches to music as well as studies of music listening in a variety of ... Read more

    ₹672.27

  • Analog Synthesizers: Understanding, Performing, Buying

    From the Legacy of Moog to Software Synthesis

    by Mark Jenkins ...
    Making its first huge impact in the 1960s through the inventions of Bob Moog, the analog synthesizer sound, riding a wave of later developments in digital and software synthesis, has now become more popular than ever.Analog Synthesizers charts the technology, instruments, designers, and musicians associated with its three major historical phases: invention in the 1960s–1970s and the music of ... Read more

    ₹8,296.99

  • The Roberto Gerhard Companion

    by Monty Adkins ...
    Series series Routledge Music Companions
    More than forty years after the composer's death, the music of Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) continues to be recorded and performed and to attract international scholarly interest. The Roberto Gerhard Companion is the first full length scholarly work on this composer noted for his sharp intellect and original, exploring mind. This book builds on the outcomes of two recent international conferences ... Read more

    ₹7,501.27

  • French Connections: From Discotheque to Daft Punk - The Birth of French Touch

    by Martin James ...
    During the second half of the 1990s, Paris experienced a dance music revolution thanks to groundbreaking artists like Daft Punk, Air, Super Discount, Motorbass, Cassius, Dimitri from Paris, Bob Sinclar and many, many more. It was a scene that became known as French Touch and was heralded throughout the world as the epitome of dance music cool, forever placing Paris on the dance culture map ... Read more

    ₹832.00

  • Bedsit land

    The strange worlds of Soft Cell

    by Patrick Clarke ...
    Series series The British Pop Archive
    A rich and revealing examination of the legendary pop duo Soft Cell.Soft Cell are not your average pop band. Marc Almond and Dave Ball may be best known for the string of hits they released in 1981, but the powerful first phase of their collaboration embraced a staggering array of sounds, influences and innovations that would change the face of music to come.In Bedsit land, Patrick Clarke plunges ... Read more

    ₹1,507.91

  • Trip-Hop

    by Mr. R.J. Wheaton ...
    Series series Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
    Trip-hop described some of the 1990s' best music, and it was one of the decade's most revealing bad ideas. This book chronicles the music and its leading artists, packed with recommended listening, essential tracks, great remixes, and under-recognized albums.“Your playlists will soon be overflowing.” - Spectrum CultureThe music itself was an intoxication of beats, bass, and voice. It emerged amid ... Read more

    ₹809.00

  • Shaping Sounds

    Stevie Wonder, DEVO, The Synth Revolution, And My Life Behind The Music

    by Robert Margouleff ...
    In Shaping Sounds, visionary music producer Robert Margouleff shares his stories of pushing the boundaries of musical innovation, art, and technology while helping create some of the most significant and influential music of our time.Beginning on the set of his first film, Ciao! Manhattan, with Andy Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick, Margouleff captures the tragic beauty of New York’s East Village ... Read more

    ₹794.95 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Don't Take Requests

    'If you want to change your life...read this book.' TRACEY EMIN

    by Tony Marnoch, Michael Hennegan ...
    ** CONTAINS NEW MATERIAL ** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER & WINNER OF THE ATTITUDE BOOK AWARD'Refreshing, inspiring and candid.' ATTITUDE'I love this man so much. He was, and always will be, my knight in shining Westwood.' DAVINA MCCALL'This is a story that should never have been told' KATE MOSS'The perfect beach read' THE SUNDAY TIMESAs one of ... ... Read more

    ₹1,018.68

  • John Peel

    by Mick Wall ...
    'Excellent ... paints an affectionate portrait of this unpretentious, humorous presenter who seems to have been loved by everyone who met him' SUNDAY TIMES'A leisurely stroll through the life of an "irreplaceable man" - [a] thoughtful, well-paced portrait' OBSERVERA tribute biography of the hugely popular DJ and broadcaster John PeelJohn Peel was born in Cheshire in 1939 and, after National ... Read more

    ₹468.45

  • Inside Computer Music

    by Michael Clarke, Peter Manning, Frédéric Dufeu ...
    Inside Computer Music is an investigation of how new technological developments have influenced the creative possibilities of composers of computer music in the last 50 years. This book combines detailed research into the development of computer music techniques with nine case studies that analyze key works in the musical and technical development of computer music. The book's companion website ... Read more

    ₹806.79

  • Selected Ambient Words

    Aphex Twin and the Portal to Acid Cornwall

    by John Doran ...
    How does one write the biography of a character who doesn't exist - because he was created by one of the music industry's most notorious tricksters?Selected Ambient Words is, on the surface, the answer to this riddle. It is also the full story of Aphex Twin; and of how the radical Black art of Detroit Techno and Chicago House, affordable synthesizers, cheap home computers from the Argos catalogue ... Read more

    ₹1,188.60

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  • Exmachina

    Storia musicale della nostra estinzione 1992 → ∞

    by Valerio Mattioli ...
    Series series minimum fax musica
    Nei primi anni Novanta il cyberteorico Arthur Kroker profetizzò che la nuova musica elettronica sarebbe stata l'avanguardia per i futuri rapporti tra specie umana e tecnologie digitali. Nello stesso periodo Brian Behlenford, fondatore di Apache e guru della Silicon Valley, lanciava una mailing list tutta dedicata alla cosiddetta Intelligent Dance Music di produttori come Aphex Twin, Autechre e in ... Read more

    Was ₹1,163.07 Now ₹985.65

  • The Musician's Guide to Pro Tools

    by John Keane ...
    "I'd recommend this book to anyone, whether beginner or expert." --From the Foreword by Peter Buck of R.E.M."Because everything is explained so concisely, you spend less time wading through pages and more time recording music." --Sound on Sound magazine"An excellent book for any engineer or home recordist just getting into Pro Tools." --Tape Op magazine ... Read more

    ₹3,007.81