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> Date: Mon Jan 19, 2004 4:16:06 PM US/Eastern
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> Subject: LMJ 13 Now Available
>
> NOW AVAILABLE!
> LEONARDO MUSIC JOURNAL VOLUME 13
> GROOVE, PIT AND WAVE
> RECORDING, TRANSMISSION AND MUSIC
>
> with CD curated by Philip Sherburne
>
> Despite Thomas Edison's assumption that the gramophone was nothing more
> than a sonic autograph album, suitable only for playing back the
> speeches
> of famous people, over the last 100 years recording has radically
> transformed the composition, dissemination and consumption of music.
> Similarly, the businesslike dots & dashes of Morse and Marconi have
> evolved
> into a music-laden web of radio masts, dishes, satellites, cables and
> servers. Sound is encoded in grooves on vinyl, particles on tape and
> pits
> in plastic; it travels as acoustic pressure, electromagnetic waves and
> pulses of light.
>
> The rise of the DJ in the last two decades has signaled the arrival of
> the
> medium as the instrument -- the crowning achievement of a generation
> for
> whom tapping the remote control is as instinctive as tapping two sticks
> together. Turntables, CD players, radios, tape recorders (and their
> digital
> emulations) are played, not merely heard; scratching, groove noise, CD
> glitches, tape hiss and radio interference are the sound of music, not
> sound effects. John Cage's 1960 "Cartridge Music" has yet to enter the
> charts, but its sounds are growing more familiar.
>
> In this issue of Leonardo Music Journal, the following authors
> contribute
> their thoughts on the role of recording and/or transmission in the
> creation, performance and distribution of music: Peter Manning, Yasunao
> Tone, Douglas Kahn with Christian Marclay, Nick Collins, David First,
> Matthew Burtner, Guy-Marc Hinant, Caleb Stuart, Alvaro Barbosa, Holger
> Schulze, Sergio Freire, Christopher Burns, Michael Bussiere, Marlena
> Corcoran, Trace Reddell, Tobias C. van Veen.
>
> The accompanying CD includes tracks by AGF, M. Behrens, Alejandra &
> Aeron,
> DAT Politics, Stephan Mathieu, Francisco Lopez, Institut fuer
> Feinmotorik,
> Janek Schaefer, Steve Roden, Scanner, Stephen Vitiello.
>
> Order LMJ13 from the MIT Press by visiting
http://mitpress.mit.edu/LMJ > or
> by contacting
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> More information about this issue, the table of contents, abstracts and
> selected texts are available at
>
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/Leonardo/lmj>