Unsound (1983-1986)

“Unsound was a magazine published in San Francisco by William Davenport of the band Problemist. There were ten issues published between 1983-1986. Unsound is one of the earlier US based publications with any longevity that covered the industrial/noise/punk/experimental underground.” (source)

The issues include interviews with Blixa Bargeld of Einsturzende Neubauten, Negativland, Boyd Rice, Sonic Youth, Remko Scha, Michael Gira/Swans, Genesis P-Orridge/Psychic TV, John Balance & Peter Christopherson/Coil, articles on Whitehouse, Art Radio, Soft Cell, Kronos Quartet, an overview of the Los Angeles experimental electronic scene of the time, and much more.

via Notes From Underground blog and Internet Archive

Vol. 1, No. 1 (Sep 1983)
Vol. 1, No. 2 (Oct 1983)
Vol. 1, No. 3 (Dec 1983)
Vol. 1, No. 4 (Mar 1984)
Vol. 1, No. 5 (Jul 1984)
Vol. 2, No. 1 (1985, added on 2017-11-3)
Vol. 2, No. 2 (1985, added on 2017-11-3)
Vol. 2, No. 3-4 (1986, added on 2017-11-3)
Vol. 3, No. 1 (1986, added on 2017-11-3)
Vol. 3, No. 2 (1986, added on 2017-11-3)

Dick Raaijmakers: Cahier-M: A Brief Morphology of Electric Sound (2000)

Cahier-M is about the morphology of electric sound. This inherently single-layered type of sound is discussed in the light of ‘neo-plastic’ music as suggested by the painter Piet Mondriaan in the 1920’s. He advocated a kind of music that consisted of single-layered, ‘single-colour’ electric sounds.

Furthermore, Cahier-M devotes ample attention to the morphological relationship between the typically uniform nature of electric sound and the multi-layered sound structures used by post-WWII serial composers. The discussion of this subject also covers layering (photo)graphic images as practised by the French physiologist E.J. Marey at the end of the 19th century, flipping monadic sound aggregates as practised by Karel Goeyvaerts since 1952, the application of so-called ‘horizontal arpeggios’ by Pierre Boulez around 1980, and the introduction of ‘liquid forms’ in contemporary architecture.

These aspects are illustrated based on a still valid morphological analysis of sound conducted by the author between 1963 and 1967.

Cahier-M comprises four chapters: ‘Invented Sound’, ‘Diagonal Sound’, ‘Composed Sound’ and ‘Spatial Sound’.

Publisher Leuven University Press, 2000
Volume 3 of Collected Writings of the Orpheus Institute
ISBN 9058670767
123 pages

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See also Raaijmakers’ Method (1985) and The Destructive Character (1992).

Johana Švarcová, Stanislav Abrahám (eds.): Manuál pro uživatele elektronické hudby (2009) [Czech]

Publikace obsahuje několik textů a rozhovorů s umělci, zabývající se teoretickou reflexí současné scény akustických umění, elektronických nástrojů, sdílení elektronické hudby a aspektů užívání technologií.

Manuál je součástí projektu AV Slabikář – série workshopů zaměřených na vzdělávání v oblasti audiovizuální tvorby, který v roce 2009 realizovalo občanské sdružení Lemurie.

Texty: Stanislav Abrahám, David Doubek, Michal Cáb, Bob Ostertag.
Interview: Ivan Palacký, Petr Marek, Pavel Pernický.

Publisher Lemurie, 2009
47 pages

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