Bálint András Varga: Conversations with Iannis Xenakis (1996)
Filed under book | Tags: · acoustics, composition, electroacoustic music, interview, music, music theory, tape music
“The music of the Greek-born composer, Iannis Xenakis, has been called brutal and violent. He first studied as an architect, but then turned to composition and put to musical use his knowledge of higher mathematics. In these conversations conducted between 1980 and 1989 he talks about his life and music.”
Publisher Faber and Faber, London, 1996
ISBN 0571179592, 9780571179596
255 pages
Review: Mihu Iliescu (Computer Music Journal, 2000).
Comment (0)Matthew Gandy, BJ Nilsen (eds.): The Acoustic City (2014)
Filed under book | Tags: · acoustics, city, ecology, listening, music, noise, sound, urban design, urbanism
“The Acoustic City consists of a series of essays on sound and the city. The book comprises five thematic sections: urban soundscapes with an emphasis on the distinctiveness of the urban acoustic realm; acoustic flânerie and the recording of sonic environments; sound cultures arising from specific associations between music, place, and sound; acoustic ecologies including relationships between architecture, sound, and urban design; and the politics of noise extending to different instances of anxiety or conflict over sound. This essay collection will be of interest to a wide range of disciplines including architecture, cultural studies, geography, musicology, and urban sociology.”
Publisher Jovis, Berlin, 2014
ISBN 3868592717, 9783868592719
217 pages
via Meowth
Tuned City: Between Sound and Space Speculation (2008)
Filed under book | Tags: · acoustics, architecture, city, noise, sound, sound studies
“Sounds belong to the City. They determine spaces and identities. For years, artists have been using city noises as a material to stage or to question urban space – new territory, however, for most architects and planners within the routines of functional planning procedures. Tuned City – Between Sound and Space Speculation searches for a new evaluation of architectural spaces from the perspective of acoustics. This volume presents various positions of architects, artists and theorists to expand the architectural discourse with the dimension of listening. ”
The English section runs from the page 97-192.
Contributions by Doris Kleilein and Anne Kockelkorn, Barry Blesser and Linda-Ruth Salter, Gisela Herzog and Gerhard Steinke, Susanne Hauser, Thomas Ankersmit, Pascal Amphoux and Grégoire Chelkoff, Raviv Ganchrow, Mark Bain, Arno Brandlhuber and Markus Emde, Michael Bull, Stefan Kölsch, and Jacob Kirkegaard.
Edited by Doris Kleilein, Anne Kockelkorn, Gesine Pagels, and Carsten Stabenow
Publisher Kook Books, Idstein, 2008
Reihe Essay series, 4
ISBN 9783937445366, 3937445366
192 pages
Reviews: Rahma Khazam (The Wire, 2008), Alessandro Ludovico (Neural, 2009).
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See also catalogues from Tuned City editions in Berlin (2008), Tallinn (2011), Brussels (2013), and Athens (2018).