We congratulate Joel Chadabe, the 2007 SEAMUS Award recipient. His pioneering. And Electric Sound, The Past and Promise of Electronic Music; tireless.

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MIT Press, 1996. 1,234 pp Joel Chadabe. Electric Sound: The Past and Promise of Electronic Music. Prentice Hall, 1997.370 pp To the uninitiated, the field of computer music may seem a bit overwhelming, in that it combines new technologies with music composition and performance practices that often seem quite distant from the Western classical tradition.For those who are intrigued but unsure where or how to get started, two recently published texts combine to serve as a thorough introduction to both the history and techniques of computer music Geers reviews these pieces both in merit and utility.

With a truly global perspective, this vivid and readable narrative provides a comprehensive overview of the history of electronic music. The author draws upon his combined experience as composer, performer, researcher, entrepreneur, and teacher to provide insight into every aspect of electronic music, including the music itself, the instruments, and the business. Based With a truly global perspective, this vivid and readable narrative provides a comprehensive overview of the history of electronic music. The author draws upon his combined experience as composer, performer, researcher, entrepreneur, and teacher to provide insight into every aspect of electronic music, including the music itself, the instruments, and the business. Based on more than 150 interviews with leaders in the field, this book allows readers to understand how and why the musicians, engineers and businessmen did what they did to develop the modern synthesizer to its current state.

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It's been around 12 years since I read this and I still think about it today. This was part of my introduction to electronic music and I loved every second of it.

Couldn't put it down. Maybe it's proof that when you become interested in a subject it can consume you and you can't get enough information. But I loved how it started from the beginnings of electric sound, and I was captivated by the early inventions. From there Chadabe followed the evolution of hardware and composers. Another surpri It's been around 12 years since I read this and I still think about it today. This was part of my introduction to electronic music and I loved every second of it.

Couldn't put it down. Maybe it's proof that when you become interested in a subject it can consume you and you can't get enough information.

But I loved how it started from the beginnings of electric sound, and I was captivated by the early inventions. From there Chadabe followed the evolution of hardware and composers. Another surprise I learned about with this book is 20th century composers and their roots. Even ones that didn't use electronics in their compositions. This book is incredibly comprehensive. My cousin gave me this book when I visited him in the Netherlands where he was studying electric sound, and this book was used as a textbook, so maybe some people will find the content dry and academic. But it is definitely the first textbook I've ever read completely, cover to cover.

If you are really into analog music synthesis, you'll have to read this book at some point. The reason i didn't give it more stars was because half of the book is a really dry history of computer music and pre-synth music. When that happens you learn about a bunch of white men playing with computers and or merely parts of a future synth. Not one of the musical pieces made at that time is still popular, although they might serve as an interesting footnote. It was cool to read about Stockhausen's if you are really into analog music synthesis, you'll have to read this book at some point. The reason i didn't give it more stars was because half of the book is a really dry history of computer music and pre-synth music.

When that happens you learn about a bunch of white men playing with computers and or merely parts of a future synth. Not one of the musical pieces made at that time is still popular, although they might serve as an interesting footnote. It was cool to read about Stockhausen's techniques and to learn a lot about Thaddeus Cahill's Telharmonium but most of the pre-synth stories are remarkably boring and the computer music chapter is a total snooze fest. All the photos are horribly printed - you'd think they would have scanned the pictures, but no, they HAD to zerox the pics so there is barely any detail and there's a nasty moire pattern on many of them that could have been removed in 3 seconds if they weren't xeroxed. What's up with that?