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  • Music Theory for Computer Musicians: Second Edition

    For Computer Musicians, #1

    by Dr Michael Hewitt ...
    Series Book 1 - For Computer Musicians
    Whether you are a beginner to music production or a seasoned professional looking to brush up on your music theory knowledge, this book is for you.Many electronic music producers, DJs, or gigging musicians know their tools, yet they struggle with the language of music itself. The second edition of the world-renowned Music Theory for Computer Musicians is the definitive guide to learning the ... Read more

    R215,89 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Depeche Mode - The Early Years 1981-1993

    by Trevor Baker ...
    Depeche Mode are one of the UK's most popular global bands, a multi-million selling phenomenon their last album Sounds Of The Universe went top three in 25 countries worldwide. But it is their astonishing series of early albums that made them such a legend among their hardcore army of fans. Mostly ignored by the UK press at the time, LPs such as Some Great Reward, Black Celebration and Music For ... Read more

    R123,04

  • 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

    R348,32

  • Acid For The Children - The autobiography of Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers legend

    by Flea ...
    Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder**, alongside Anthony Kiedis,** of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you'd expect from an LA street rat turned world-famous rock star.Michael Peter Balzary was born in Melbourne, Australia, on October 16, 1962. His more famous stage name, Flea, and his wild ... Read more

    R308,53

  • Pink Floyd - Uncensored On the Record

    by Bob Carruthers ...
    This is the ultimate critical guide to the music of and career of Pink Floyd, brought together in one amazing collection. Using the actual words of the band and critics, this is the definitive review of the work of the band on stage, on record and on film from the Syd Barrett era to Pulse. This eBook also features many rare photographs spanning the entire career of Pink Floyd. ... Read more

    R57,15

  • 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

    R404,90

  • Dance Songs for Weddings

    by Lenny Everson ...
    There are a lot of wonderful songs to which the happy couple can dance at their wedding reception, but sometimes a wedding party will want something less overused, or an additional song or two for an additional dance or two. This little book of lyrics provides some new songs, sung to traditional tunes such as "Green Grow the Lilacs".The book contains the lyrics, and gives you information on how to ... Read more

    Free

  • The Essential Disc Jockey

    by Stephen C. Hill ...
    The Essential Disc Jockey is a valuable guide to understanding what it is like to work as a Disc Jockey in a club or for parties.The Author explains to the reader the "Do's and Don't's" of working as a Disc jockey and gives pointers on becoming a popular Disc Jockey.The Essential Disc Jockey will supply insight, wisdom and knowledge to the beginner DJ and even a seasoned professional.Becoming a ... Read more

    R16,45 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    R688,15

  • 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

    R215,44

  • 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

    R275,07

  • Playing with Something That Runs

    Technology, Improvisation, and Composition in DJ and Laptop Performance

    by Mark J. Butler ...
    Winner of the 2015 PMIG Outstanding Publication Award from the Society of Music Theory The DJs and laptop performers of electronic dance music use preexistent elements such as vinyl records and digital samples to create fluid, dynamic performances. These performances are also largely improvised, evolving in response to the demands of a particular situation through interaction with a dancing ... Read more

    R580,97

  • Acoustic Profiles

    A Sound Ecology of the Cinema

    by Randolph Jordan ...
    Series series OXFORD MUSIC/MEDIA SERIES
    In Acoustic Profiles, author Randolph Jordan proposes a new model for image-sound analysis that incorporates the vocabulary and methods of environmental studies, specifically exploring the potential of a model based on acoustic ecology. Jordan uses close readings of films to connect the diverse fields of architecture, environmental studies, art history, the history of modernity, and media studies ... Read more

    R504,49

  • Selling The Night: When Club Culture Meets Brands, Advertising & The Creative Industries

    by Andy Crysell ...
    Brands moving into club culture to act as sponsors and supporters. People and ideas emerging from club culture to influence media, fashion, gaming, advertising, design, beauty, tourism and more. Selling The Night is the first book to join the dots between club culture and the wider creative industries. Selling The Night hears from more than 100 DJs, promoters, agents, marketers, writers, designers ... Read more

    R199,27 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    R316,70

  • 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

    R85,89 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

    R326,13

  • 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

    R118,67

  • 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

    R57,15

  • 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

    R565,67

  • 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

    R1 410,83

  • 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

    R1 256,90

  • 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

    R166,03

  • Harline & Washington's When You Wish Upon a Star

    by Jake Johnson ...
    Series series Oxford Keynotes
    When Leigh Harline and Ned Washington penned "When You Wish Upon a Star" for Disney's 1940 film Pinocchio, the song came like a bolt out of the blue. Like Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg's "Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz one year earlier, "When You Wish Upon a Star" comes on the heels of the Great Depression and just shy of America's sudden jolt into a second global conflict. Both tunes ... Read more

    R243,56