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Iannis Xenakis’s Persepolis

Author : Aram Yardumian
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501381539
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Iannis Xenakis’s Persepolis written by Aram Yardumian and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iannis Xenakis' Persepolis stood as witness to one of the most important events in modern human history, the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Its existence is owed to an invitation to participate in the 1971 Shiraz Arts Festival, which was overseen by Empress Farah Pahlavi. Like the Festival, and the extravagant celebratory party held the same year, Xenakis' symbolic paean to Persian history was polarizing. Many loved it, others detested it. Overwhelming but also subtle and precise in its non-harmonic shifts in texture and density, listeners and critics simply did not know what to make of it. This book tells the story of Xenakis' early history and involvement in the Resistance against the Axis occupation of Greece during the Second World War, escape and re-settlement in Paris, work as an architect with Le Corbusier, and distinct views on world history and politics that all led to his 1972 electro-acoustic album Persepolis.

Iannis Xenakis’s Persepolis

Author : Aram Yardumian
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501381520
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Meta-Xenakis

Author : Sharon Kanach
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1805112279
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Meta-Xenakis written by Sharon Kanach and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2024-10-09 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meta-Xenakis offers readers a comprehensive collection of insights into the history, works and legacy of Iannis Xenakis, one of the twentieth century’s most significant creative figures. It presents a transcontinental engagement with his life and output, focusing as much on the impact of the questions he posed as on the accomplishments of his body of work. This volume evolved out of the multi-modal, international Meta-Xenakis Consortium’s artistic and scholarly events commemorating his centenary. Informative and comprehensive, contributions span subjects including music composition, creative pedagogy, aesthetics, game theory, architecture, and the social and political contexts in which Xenakis operated. The book is organized in eight sections, centered on different facets of Xenakis’s work and reception. It includes a digital archive of audio and visual media from the events staged throughout 2022, as well as computer software. Bringing into conversation the diverse perspectives and insights of researchers, musicians and artists, this volume serves as a foundational resource for future research on the life and work of Xenakis. It will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners across a range of disciplines including music, architecture, cybernetics and computation, and the digital arts.

Performing Iran

Author : Babak Rahimi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755635124
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Performing Iran written by Babak Rahimi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of collaborative research from noteworthy dramatists and scholars, this volume investigates the dynamic relationship between culture, performance and theatre in Iran. The studies gathered here examine how various forms of performances, especially theatre, have and continue to undergo change in response to shifting political and social settings from the antiquity to the present day. The analysis in this book focuses on performance practices, examining drama, texts, rituals, plays, music, cinema and drama technologies. This is done in order to show how Iran has been imagined through enactments and representations, and reproduced through these performative actions. The book uses a wider definition of the concept of 'performance', offering analysis of a wide range of phenomena, including indigenous rituals – such as the naqqali and taziyeh – and online performances by diaspora communities.

Nonbinary

Author : Genesis P-Orridge
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1647000181
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Nonbinary written by Genesis P-Orridge and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing and beautifully open memoir from pioneering industrial music artist, visual artist, and transgender icon Genesis P-Orridge—now in paperback In this groundbreaking book spanning decades of artistic risk-taking, the inventor of “industrial music,” founder of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, and world-renowned fine artist with COUM Transmissions, Genesis P-Orridge (1950–2020) takes us on a journey searching for identity and their true self. It is the story of a life of creation and destruction, where Genesis P-Orridge reveals their unwillingness to be stuck—stuck in one place, in one genre, or in one gender. Nonbinary is Genesis’s final work and is shared with hopes of being an inspiration to the newest generation of trailblazers and nonconformists. Nonbinary is the intimate story of Genesis’s life, weaving the narrative of their history in COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle, and Psychic TV. It also covers growing up in World War II’s fallout in Britain, contributing to the explosion of new music and radical art in the 1960s, and destroying visual and artistic norms throughout their entire life. In addition to being a captivating memoir of a singular artist and musician, Nonbinary is also an inside look at one of our most remarkable cultural lives that will be an inspiration to fans of industrial music, performance art, the occult, and a life in the arts.

Formalized Music

Author : Iannis Xenakis
Publisher : Pendragon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781576470794
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Formalized Music written by Iannis Xenakis and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pendragon Press is proud to offer this new, revised, and expanded edition of Formalized Music, Iannis Xenakis's landmark book of 1971. In addition to three totally new chapters examining recent breakthroughs in music theory, two original computer programs illustrating the actual realization of newly proposed methods of composition, and an appendix of the very latest developments of stochastic synthesis as an invitation to future exploration, Xenakis offers a very critical self-examination of his theoretical propositions and artistic output of the past thirty-five years. This edition of Formalized Music is an essential tool for understanding the man and the thought processes of one of this century's most important and revolutionary musical figures.

Literary Translation and the Rediscovery of Reading

Author : Clive Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107022304
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Literary Translation and the Rediscovery of Reading written by Clive Scott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new departure in translation theory, focusing on translation and the reader's experience.

Translation: Theory and Practice in Dialogue

Author : Antoinette Fawcett
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441192433
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Translation: Theory and Practice in Dialogue written by Antoinette Fawcett and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting new book explores the present relevance of translation theory to practice. A range of perspectives provides both current theoretical insights into the relevance of theory to translation and also offers first-hand experiences of applying appropriate strategies and methods to the practice and description of translation. The individual chapters in the book explore theoretical pronouncements and practical observations grouped in topics that include theory and creativity, translation and its relation with linguistics, gender issues and more. The book features four parts: it firstly deals with how theories from both within translation studies and from other disciplines can contribute to our understanding of the practice of translation; secondly, how theory can be reconceptualized from examining translation in practice; thirdly reconceptualizing practice from theory; and finally Eastern European and Asian perspectives of how translation theory and practice inform one another. The chapters all show examples from theoretical and practical as well as pedagogical issues ensuring appeal for a wide readership. This book will appeal to advanced level students, researchers and academics in translation studies.

Composing Electronic Music

Author : Curtis Roads
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199706476
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Composing Electronic Music written by Curtis Roads and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electronic music evokes new sensations, feelings, and thoughts in both composers and listeners. Opening the door to an unlimited universe of sound, it engages spatialization as an integral aspect of composition and focuses on sound transformation as a core structural strategy. In this new domain, pitch occurs as a flowing and ephemeral substance that can be bent, modulated, or dissolved into noise. Similarly, time occurs not merely as a fixed duration subdivided by ratios, but as a plastic medium that can be generated, modulated, reversed, warped, scrambled, and granulated. Envelope and waveform undulations on all time scales interweave to generate form. The power of algorithmic methods amplify the capabilities of music technology. Taken together, these constitute game-changing possibilities. This convergence of technical and aesthetic trends prompts the need for a new text focused on the opportunities of a sound oriented, multiscale approach to composition of electronic music. Sound oriented means a practice that takes place in the presence of sound. Multiscale means an approach that takes into account the perceptual and physical reality of multiple, interacting time scales-each of which can be composed. After more than a century of research and development, now is an appropriate moment to step back and reevaluate all that has changed under the ground of artistic practice. Composing Electronic Music outlines a new theory of composition based on the toolkit of electronic music techniques. The theory consists of a framework of concepts and a vocabulary of terms describing musical materials, their transformation, and their organization. Central to this discourse is the notion of narrative structure in composition-how sounds are born, interact, transform, and die. It presents a guidebook: a tour of facts, history, commentary, opinions, and pointers to interesting ideas and new possibilities to consider and explore.

The Age of Aryamehr

Author : Roham Alvandi
Publisher : Gingko Library
ISBN 13 : 1909942197
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Aryamehr written by Roham Alvandi and published by Gingko Library. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully incorporates Pahlavi Iran into the global history of the 1960s and ’70s, when Iran mattered far beyond its borders. The reign of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1941–79), marked the high point of Iran’s global interconnectedness. Never before had Iranians felt the impact of global political, social, economic, and cultural forces so intimately in their national and daily lives, nor had Iranian actors played such an important global role – on battlefields, barricades, and in board rooms far beyond Iran’s borders. Iranian intellectuals, technocrats, politicians, workers, artists, and students alike were influenced by the global ideas, movements, markets, and conflicts that they also helped to shape. From the launch of the Shah’s White Revolution in 1963 to his overthrow in the popular revolution of 1978–79, Iran saw the longest period of sustained economic growth that the country had ever experienced. An entire generation took its cue from the shift from oil consumption to oil production to dream of, and aspire to, a modernized Iran, and the history of Iran in this period has tended to be presented as a prologue to the revolution. Those histories usually locate the political, social, and cultural origins of the revolution firmly within a national context, into which global actors intruded as Iranian actors retreated. While engaging with that national narrative, this volume is concerned with Iran’s place in the global history of the 1960s and ’70s. It examines and highlights the transnational threads that connected Pahlavi Iran to the world, from global traffic in modern art and narcotics to the embrace of American social science by Iranian technocrats and the encounter of European intellectuals with the Iranian Revolution.

Iannis Xenakis: Kraanerg

Author : Dr James Harley
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 140942331X
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Iannis Xenakis: Kraanerg written by Dr James Harley and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the benefit of access to sketches and recordings in the Xenakis Archives, James Harley presents analytical and critical discussions of Kraanerg's music and reception, including the relationship of the score to the recorded parts. Harley is a composer with first-hand experience of the interlocking fields of acoustic and electronic music that Xenakis made his own. The book is accompanied by a CD, which helps to conceptualize the extremely complex score.

Sonic Phantoms

Author : Barbara Ellison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501347047
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Sonic Phantoms written by Barbara Ellison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Barbara Ellison and Thomas B. W. Bailey lay out and explore the mystifying and evanescent musical territory of 'sonic phantoms': auditory illusions within the musical material that convey a 'phantasmatic' presence. Structured around a large body of compositional work developed by Ellison over the past decade, sonic phantoms are revealed and illustrated as they arise through a diverse array of musical sources, materials, techniques, and compositional tools: voices (real and synthetic), field recordings, instrument manipulation, object amplification, improvisation, and recording studio techniques. Somehow inherent in all music--and perhaps in all sound--sonic phantoms lurk and stalk with the promise of mystery and elevation. We just need to conjure them.

The Front Lawn's Songs from the Front Lawn

Author : Matthew Bannister
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501390112
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Front Lawn's Songs from the Front Lawn written by Matthew Bannister and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Front Lawn is a multi-award-winning, much-loved New Zealand duo-turned-trio made up of Don McGlashan, Harry Sinclair and, eventually, Jennifer Ward-Lealand. A 1980s variety act, The Front Lawn was part of an Aotearoa/New Zealand alternative tradition of duos that combine music, comedy, theatre and film. Their debut album Songs from The Front Lawn (1989) distilled McGlashan and Sinclair's theatrical stage show and their groundbreaking short films, Walkshort and The Lounge Bar, while also thrusting the band into the burgeoning New Zealand indie scene. The album is a snapshot of '80s New Zealand, a turbulent, creative period for indie music, indie film and musical theatre, celebrating local identity in new ways. Starting with a social and cultural background of New Zealand in the late 1970s, the book covers McGlashan and Sinclair's upbringing on Auckland's North Shore, early artistic influences and overseas experiences leading to the formation of the group. Much attention is paid to the duo's philosophy, early performances, the process of recording the album – including The Front Lawn's collaboration with Wellington avant-garde/cabaret group Six Volts and the addition of Jennifer Ward-Lealand as the group's third member – and analysis of each of the album's 10 songs. In parting, Matthew Bannister discusses the group's second and final album, More Songs from The Front Lawn, as well as the individual members' subsequent artistic careers

Massada's Astaganaga

Author : Lutgard Mutsaers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501372599
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Massada's Astaganaga written by Lutgard Mutsaers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores an album of popular music with a remarkable significance to a violent wave of postcolonial tensions in the Netherlands in the 1970s. Several “actions” were claimed by a small number of first-generation descendants of ca. 12,500 reluctant migrants from the young independent state of Indonesia (former Dutch East Indies). Transferred in 1951, this culturally coherent group consisted of ex-Royal Dutch Colonial Army personnel and their families. Their ancient roots in the Moluccan archipelago and their protestant-christian faith defined their minority image. Their sojourn should have been temporary, but frustratingly turned out to be permanent. At the height of strained relations, Massada rose to the occasion. Astaganaga (1978) is a telling example of the will to negotiate a different diasporic Moluccan identity through uplifting contemporary sounds.

Czeslaw Niemen's Niemen Enigmatic

Author : Mariusz Gradowski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501372696
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Czeslaw Niemen's Niemen Enigmatic written by Mariusz Gradowski and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Niemen Enigmatic is the fourth album in the career of Czeslaw Niemen, arguably one of the greatest Polish musicians of all time (from pop and rock to jazz-rock and avant-garde). The book asks how significant was this album? How enduring is its popularity? Has the popularity and meanings changed over time? It does this by unpacking its production, which was unprecedented in the history of the Polish popular music due to its large number of musicians with varied backgrounds, including progressive rock, mixing jazz, rock and soul with classical music. It also examines its appeal to different segments of Polish population, and failure to reach foreign audiences, despite Niemen himself privileging this album, especially its centrepiece, Bema pamieci zalobny rapsod (Mournful Rhapsody in Memoriam of Bem aka A Funeral Rhapsody in Memory of General Bem aka Mourner's Rhapsody), in his attempt to make a career abroad.

John Farnham's Whispering Jack

Author : Graeme Turner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 150138208X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book John Farnham's Whispering Jack written by Graeme Turner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The album examined in this book transformed the singer John Farnham from a faded teen pop star into the most popular solo rock performer in Australia, in a career that has lasted for more than 30 years. Whispering Jack remains the top-selling album by an Australian artist in Australia, and constitutes the turning point in Farnham's bid to achieve credibility as an adult contemporary musician. The first single from the album, 'You're the Voice,' has achieved such iconic status that it is routinely referred to as Australia's unofficial national anthem. The book examines the album, its context and that history in order to recover a crucial conjuncture in the development of Australian rock and popular music, one that has previously been ignored in Australian popular music studies.

Kylie Minogue's Kylie

Author : Adrian Renzo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501382993
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Kylie Minogue's Kylie written by Adrian Renzo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kylie Minogue's self-titled debut album produced hits, controversy and a perfect mainstream storm. The then soap and children's television star 'crossed over' to music with hit writer/producers SAW - and the shamelessly commercial approach of all involved saw the 'real' music industry get its back up. This book interrogates the way that commercial pop albums are remembered in both the popular music press and in academic research. Is there a way of dealing with 'mainstream' pop without denigrating the music and (just as importantly) without validating it according to the terms of a 'high art' canon? This text sheds light on the way that notions of 'mainstream' and 'other' play out in a local context-specifically, Australia and New Zealand music on a global stage.