The Music : An Album in Words Hardback
by Matthew Herbert
Hardback
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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.
Why use a guitar when you can use a lawnmower? Why use a lawnmower when you can use an explosion in Libya?
The Music 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.
As well as being a description of an imagined album, this book is a manifesto for sound, challenging how we hear the world itself, while listening to stories about humanity and our place in that world.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Unbound
- Publication Date:05/04/2018
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- ISBN:9781783525072
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Unbound
- Publication Date:05/04/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781783525072
