| Contents |
Introduction: Making music in thin air -- A brief history of interactive music. Erik Satie and the art of boredom. The aesthetic of boredom ; Furniture music (1920) ; Relâche (1924) -- John Cage and the charms of change. The happening (July 1952) ; 4'33" (August 1952) ; Composition as process -- Brian Eno and the landscaping of sound. Ambient music ; Generative music -- John Oswald and plunderphonics -- Moby and the concept of Play -- Unsilent night: a case study in motion. The boom box orchestra -- A living sound sculpture -- Sonic plasticity -- The Brain opera: a case study in space. The mind forest -- The Brain Opera performance -- Net music -- The house of music -- Interactive space -- Music on the Web in the twentieth century. The league of automatic music composers (1977) -- The Hub (1986) -- NetJam (1990) -- Rocket Network (1994) -- Beatnik (1883) -- MusicWorld (1997) -- The Internet Underground Music Archives (1993) -- Cinema Volta (1994) -- WebDrum (1997) -- Cathedral: a case study in time. The web site -- The virtual instruments -- The cathedral band -- The 48 hour webcast of 2001 -- Internet time -- Cell phones and satellites. Radio net ; Dialtones (a telesymphony) -- Sound maps of Krakow -- Scanner -- The mob scene -- The next big thing -- Art and ethics online. Web sound -- Latency -- Copyright and file sharing -- Open source -- Copy left -- The Grey album: a case study in critical mass. Black, white, and grey -- Grey Tuesday -- Critical mass in cyberspace -- Virtual music. The new landscape. Availability ; Portability ; Collectivity ; Communication. |
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Accompanying compact disc: Brain opera. Excerpts / Tod Machover -- Phantom signals / Scanner -- Wheelies / Chris Brown (The Hub) -- Alphabet of the birds / The Cathedral Band -- 9-6-81. Excerpt / League of Automatic Music Composers -- GPS-Trans 3. Excerpt / Marek Choloniewski -- F@ust 3.0, "Tierra bajo tierra" / Sergi Jordà -- fossil-residue storeroom exhibition / therefore [Michael Kaufmann ; Wayne S. Feldman] -- Pitch web jam. Excerpt / Cathedral -- WebDrum jam / Phil Burk -- Dialtones : a Telesymphony. Section 1 / Golan Levin ; Scott Gibbons ; Gregory Shaker -- Cinema Volta, June 3rd. Excerpt / John Maxwell Hobbs -- Unsilent night. Excerpt / Phil Kline -- GPS-Trans 3. Excerpt / Marek Choloniewski. |
| Abstract |
With the explosive growth of the World Wide Web has come a new world of cyber music, and with it, seemingly unlimited artistic possibilities. This book chronicles the development of interactive sound and music, from its beginnings in the early twentieth century to cell phones and iTunes. This history includes the author's own story--the creation of "Cathedral," one of the first interactive works of music and art on the Web. From file sharing and nanotechnology to Brian Eno and Moby, the author examines the complex, and at times controversial, new musical world presently developing online. This book also comes with a CD including performances not available on any commercial releases. |
| General note | Compact disc edited and produced by Nora Farrell; track listing on pages 199-202. |
| General note | Title on compact disc: Sound of the web at the turn of the century. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-198) and index. |
| LCCN | 2005005960 |
| ISBN | 0415966744 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0415966752 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9780415966757 (paperback) |
