{"product_id":"sonic-writing-9781501313868","title":"Sonic Writing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSonic Writing\u003c\/i\u003e explores how contemporary music technologies trace their ancestry to previous forms of instruments and media. Studying the domains of instrument design, musical notation, and sound recording under the rubrics of material, symbolic, and signal inscriptions of sound, the book describes how these historical techniques of sonic writing are implemented in new digital music technologies. With a scope ranging from ancient Greek music theory, medieval notation, early modern scientific instrumentation to contemporary multimedia and artificial intelligence, it provides a theoretical grounding for further study and development of technologies of musical expression. The book draws a bespoke affinity and similarity between current musical practices and those from before the advent of notation and recording, stressing the importance of instrument design in the study of new music and projecting how new computational technologies, including machine learning, will transform our mus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThor Magnusson, with his insights based on a profound knowledge of both theory and practice, provides us with as good a map as we are likely to get. * Technology and Culture *\u003cbr\u003eWith vivid illustrations of otherwise complex concepts ... [this book] is a compendium for future research and a primer of music inscription past, present, and future. * The Wire Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eThor Magnusson's\u003ci\u003e Sonic Writing: Technologies of Material, Symbolic, and Signal Inscriptions \u003c\/i\u003eis one of those rare reads that manages to connect, to clarify, and to serve as a great starting point for conceptualizing what we're up to even as we're doing it. What Thor's up to is something which is different and thought-provoking - he's interested in looking at some of the ways in which technology has always conditioned our musical expression, even as it modifies and redefines it. * Interference Journal *\u003cbr\u003eIn this kaleidoscopic synthesis of history, theory, and organology, Thor Magnusson offers not only a groundbreaking interpretation of digital musical instruments but also bracing new perspectives on instrumentality as such. * Thomas Patteson, Professor of Music History, Curtis Institute of Music, USA, and author of Instruments for New Music: Sound, Technology, and Modernism (2015) *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a fascinating and giddy sprint through the long history of our digital present. Magnusson tells the history of 20th- and 21st-century music through the lens of inscription--capaciously understood to encompass musical instruments, controllers, interfaces, notation, and recording. By turns breathlessly ambitious in his broad historical sweep and revelatory in his detailed attention to individual technologies, Magnusson gives his readers a host of critical tools to think through the challenges and affordances of our musical tools. * Emily I. Dolan, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of Music, Harvard University, USA, and author of The Orchestral Revolution: Haydn and the Technologies of Timbre (2013) *\u003cbr\u003eThere are books on new digital instruments and technologies, or on electronic music practice and sound design, but Magnusson's book is unique in its exploration of how technology conditions our musical expression. By focusing on the conditions on which current digital technologies are redefining musical practices, and through a rigorous analysis in the three domains of musical instruments, notation, and recording, Magnusson has authored an essential book for understanding the musical paradigm shifts that are emerging in our early 21st century. * Sergi Jordà, digital luthier, music technology researcher and Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain; creator of the Reactable music instrument and founder of Reactable Systems *\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating study of all forms of sonic writing for anyone interested in the sonic arts, but it’s also a fascinating lens for thinking about the history and politics of technologies of inscription and storage more generally. * Neural Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eProvides a sweeping overview of the tools and techniques of music-making both before and after the dawn of computing as well a set of forward-looking strategies for thinking critically about our future relationship with new music technology. Importantly, Magnusson identifies many similarities between present and past sonic creative practices as he takes the reader through an impressive survey of music technologies spanning the analog–digital divide. * New Books Network *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ePreface\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e0 - Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eI - Material Inscriptions\u003c\/b\u003e 1. Instrumentality  2. New Instruments 3. Epistemic Tools  4. Digital Organology \u003cb\u003eII - Symbolic Inscriptions\u003c\/b\u003e  5. Writing Music 6. Printing Music 7. New Languages 8. Machine Notation            \u003cb\u003eIII - Signal Inscriptions\u003c\/b\u003e    9. Inscribing Sound 10. Recording 11. Analysing 12. Machine Listening  \u003cb\u003eIV - Digital Writing\u003c\/b\u003e 13. Transductions 14. New Notations 15. Machine Writing 16. Music in Multimedia \u003cb\u003eV - Conclusion\u003c\/b\u003e 17. A Future of Music Tech 18. Transformation of Tradition 19. New Education \u003cb\u003eBibliography\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eIndex\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739783344471,"sku":"9781501313868","price":27.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501313868.jpg?v=1720053132","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sonic-writing-9781501313868","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}