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The Music


The Music



von: Matthew Herbert

11,99 €

Verlag: Unbound Digital
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 05.04.2018
ISBN/EAN: 9781783525089
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 224

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Beschreibungen

In the last hundred years – between the invention of the microphone and the computer – music has undergone a profound revolution. No longer confined to specifically designed instruments, we can now make music out of anything.
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<br>Why use a guitar when you can use a lawnmower? Why use a lawnmower when you can use an explosion in Libya?
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<i>The Music</i> evokes a shifting sonic landscape in precise detail – Chinese concrete slowly hardening, overlaid by a splintering cassette tape in the stereo of a car mid-crash. The noise of 73,984 insects hitting number plates followed by that of a drill striking oil deep beneath the earth’s surface. Or just the silence of two unfamiliar people as they look up at the night sky.
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<br>As well as being a description of an imagined album this novel is a manifesto for sound, challenging how we hear the world itself, while listening to stories about humanity and our place in that world.
John Cage meets Georges Perec in this groundbreaking debut novel from award-winning musician and artist Matthew Herbert
John Cage meets Georges Perec in this groundbreaking debut novel from award-winning musician and artist Matthew Herbert
Matthew Herbert is a prolific and award-winning musician, artist, producer and writer whose range of innovative work extends from numerous albums to film scores and installations, as well as music for the theatre, TV, games and radio. He has performed all around the world from the Sydney Opera House to the Hollywood Bowl. He is director of the new BBC Radiophonic Workshop and an artistic researcher in the School of Music and Performing Arts, Canterbury Christ Church University. Matthew Herbert lives in Kent.
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<li><p>Matthew Herbert is an award-winning artist and musician who has collaborated with the likes of Björk, Dizzee Rascal and Caryl Churchill, and whose recent commissions include a piece of music for the BBC’s New European Songbook, as well as the soundtrack for Disobedience, starring Rachel McAdams and Rachel Weiss. </p></li>
<li><p>This is a truly unique, innovative novel – a story about humanity in the modern world using a form that reflects our information-saturated era.</p></li>
<li><p>For fans of Brian Eno, David Byrne, Eimear McBride, Mike McCormack.</p></li>
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