Bibliograph

Future sounds, the story of electronic music from Stockhausen to Skrillex, David Stubbs

Type

Label

Future sounds, the story of electronic music from Stockhausen to Skrillex, David Stubbs

Language

eng

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Future sounds

Oclc number

1059473639

Responsibility statement

David Stubbs

Sub title

the story of electronic music from Stockhausen to Skrillex

Summary

A comprehensive history of electronic music from the earliest experimental instruments to the modern EDM scene

Table Of Contents

Electronics: a prehistory -- Futurism and the birth of noise -- Poème électronique: the long wait of Edgard Varèse -- Un homme seul: Pierre Schaeffer and the art of scissors -- Stockhausen: beyond the cosmos -- 4' 33" of everything: John Cage and other concrète solutions -- Distant galaxies, deep oceans: Sun Ra and Miles Davis -- Deux femmes seules: Derbyshire and Oram -- Stevie Wonder and the electrification of soul -- From Suicide to the Pet Shop Boys: the art of the duo -- They were the robots: Kraftwerk and pop automata -- Substance: from Joy Division to New Order, the Human League to the Human League, Depeche Mode to Depeche Mode -- Brian Eno, the Aphex Twin and ambient's late arrival -- Cutting up the world: from Cabaret Voltaire to J Dilla -- Reverberation and decay -- Legitimacy: from Castlemorton to Skrillex -- Conclusion -- Nineteenth- and twentieth-century musical technology: a timeline -- A Future sounds playlist

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