Marysia Lewandowska, Laurel Ptak (eds.): Undoing Property? (2013)

“Undoing Property? examines complex relationships inside art, culture, political economy, immaterial production, and the public realm today. In its pages artists and theorists address aspects of computing, curating, economy, ecology, gentrification, music, publishing, piracy, and much more.

Property shapes all social relations. Its invisible lines force separations and create power relations felt through the unequal distribution of what is otherwise collectively produced value. Over the last few years the precise question of what should be privately owned and public­ly shared in society has animated intense political struggles and social movements around the world. In this shadow the publication’s critical texts, interviews and artistic interventions offer models of practice and interrogate diverse sites, from the body, to the courtroom, to the server, to the museum. The book asks why propertization itself has changed so fundamentally over the last few decades and what might be done to challenge it. The “undoing” of Undoing Property? begins with the recognition that something else is possible.”

With contributions by Agency, David Berry, Nils Bohlin, Sean Dockray, Rasmus Fleischer, Antonia Hirsch, David Horvitz, Mattin, Open Music Archive, Matteo Pasquinelli, Claire Pentecost, Florian Schneider, Matthew Stadler, Marilyn Strathern, Kuba Szreder, Marina Vishmidt; preface by Binna Choi, Maria Lind, Emily Pethick

Publisher Sternberg Press, Berlin, and Tensta konsthall, Stockholm, 2013
ISBN 9783943365689
256 pages
via Matteo Pasquinelli

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Olivier Messiaen: The Technique of My Musical Language, 2 Vols. (1944/1956)

In this relatively brief book, Messiaen has laid out a clear outline of certain principles of construction he has employed in composition. The second volume consists of musical examples taken from the French original.

First published in French as Technique de mon langage musical, Alphonse Leduc, Paris, 1944
Translated by John Satterfield
Publisher Alphonse Leduc, Paris, 1956
ISBN 0685148270, 9780685148273
74 and 61 pages

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Sherman Van Solkema (ed.): The New Worlds of Edgard Varèse: A Symposium (1979)

A volume following a symposium on Varèse’s music held at the City University of New York in April 1977. With papers by Elliott Carter, Chou Wen-Chung, and Robert P. Morgan.

Publisher Institute for Studies in American Music, Department of Music, School of Performing Arts, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, 1979
I.S.A.M. Monographs, No. 11
ISBN 0914678116
90 pages

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