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Sound Art References

Sound and Music in Relation to Culture; Histories of Sound Recording; Magazines and Journals; Newspaper Articles, Pamphlets and Facsimiles;Multimedia Works; Technical References;
Discography; Musicography

N.B. The books marked with an asterix (*) are out of print and currently unobtainable by the library so will you will need to source them yourselves (second-hand bookshops etc.)
Sound and Music in Relation to Culture

Altman, Rick, (1992), Sound Theory, Sound Practice, Routledge
Apollonio, Umbro, (edited by with an introduction), (1973), Futurist Manifestos, The Viking Press, New York
Armes, Roy, (1988), On Video, Routledge
Arts Council and authors (unspecified), (1986), Eye Music: The Graphic Art of New Musical Notation, Arts Council Publication
Attali, Jacques, trans., Brian Massumi, (1977/85), Noise: The Political Economy of Music, Manchester University Press
*Bangs, Lester, ed. by Greil Marcus, (1991), Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, Minerva
Barthes, Roland, trans. by Stephen Heath, (1984), IMAGE/MUSIC/TEXT, Fontana Press
Cage, John, (1987), Silence, Marion Boyars
Cardew, Cornelius, (1972), 'Scratch Music', Latimer New Directions
Chatwin, Bruce, (1988), The Songlines, Picador
Cooke, Deryck, (1989), The Language of Music , Oxford University Press
*Critchley, M. and Henson, R.A. (eds.) (1977), Music and the Brain: Studies in the Neurology of Music, London
Davis, John Booth, (1980), The Psychology of Music, Hutchinson University Library
Deliège, Célestin, (1976), Pierre Boulez: Conversations with Célestin Deliège, Eulenburg Books
Doane, Mary Anne, (1980), 'Ideology and the Practice of Sound', in De Lauretis 47-56
Foster, Hal (ed,), (1988), Vision and Visuality, Dia Art Foundation
Goldstein, E. Bruce, (1989), Sensation and Perception, Wadsworth Publishing Company, California
Goodall, Howard, (2000), 'Big Bangs: The Story of Five Discoveries That Changed Musical History', London: Vintage
Gould, Glenn, ed. Tim Page, (1987), The Glenn Gould Reader, Faber and Faber
Griffiths, Paul, (1984), Modern Music: A Concise History from Debussy to Boulez, Thames and Hudson
James, Jamie, (1995), The Music Of The Spheres, Abacus
Johnson, Robert Sherlaw, (1989), Messiaen, J M Dent and Sons Ltd.
Kahn, Douglas, (2001), 'Noise Water Meat', MIT Press
Kostelanetz, Richard, (1989), Conversing With Cage, Omnibus Press
Lanza, Joseph, (1994), Elevator Music: A Surreal History Of Muzak, Easy Listening And Other Moodsong, Quartet Books
*Lévi-Strauss, Claude, (1994), The Raw and the Cooked, Pimlico
*Matossian, Nouritza, (1986), Xenakis, Kahn and Averill
Metz, Christian, (1980), “Aural Objects”, in Cinema/Sound 60, special issue of Yale French Studies, ed. Rick Altman
*Nattiez, Jean-Jacques, trans. by Carolyn Abbate, (1990), Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music, Princeton University Press
Nyman, Michael, (1974), Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond, Studio Vista, London
*Ono, Yoko, (1970), Grapefruit, Peter Owen Ltd.
Phillpot, Clive and Jon Hendricks, (1988), Fluxus: Selections from the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
Ramsay, Paul, (1995), 82 Scores, Harwood Academic Press (to be published 1996)
Revill, David, (1992), The Roaring Silence - John Cage: A Life, Bloomsbury
Schaeffer, Pierre, (1977), Traité des Objets Musicaux, Paris: Editions du Seuil
Schwanauer, Stephan M. and David A. Levitt (eds.), (199?), Machine Models of Music, MIT Press
Sinding-Larsen, H. (1988) 'Notation and Music: the History of a Tool of Description and its Domain to be Described', Ed. Sinding-Larsen 91-114
Storr, Anthony, (1992), Music and the Mind, HarperCollins
Tamm, Eric, (1989), Brian Eno: His Music and the Vertical Colour of Sound, Faber and Faber
Various Authors, (1986), Eye Music: the Graphic Art of New Musical Notation, Arts Council Catalogue
Watson, Ben, (1994), Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics Of Poodle Play, Quartet Books
*Weis, Elisabeth, (1982), The Silent Scream: Alfred Hitchcock's Sound Track, Associated University Presses, Inc.
White, Avron Levine, (1987), Lost in Music: Culture, Style and the Musical Event, Sociological Review Monograph 34: Routledge and Kegan Paul
Wishart, Trevor, (1985), On Sonic Art, Imagineering Press
Histories of Sound Recording

Bergonzi, Benet, (1991), Old Gramophones, Shire Publications Ltd.
Chanan, Michael, (1995), Repeated Takes: A Short History of Recording and its Effects on Music, Verso
Chew, V.K., (1981), Talking Machines, Science Museum London, Her Majesty's Stationary Office
Contini, Marco, (1987), Fonografi e Grammofoni (Phonographs and Gramophones), trans., J. H. Neuteboom, Itinerari d'Immagini
Dearling, Celia and Robert, with Brian Rust, (1984), The Guiness Book of Recorded Sound, Guiness Books
Jennings, Humphrey, (1995), Pandaemonium: The Coming Of The Machine As Seen By Contemporary Observers, Papermac
*Proudfoot, Christopher, (1980), Collecting Phonographs and Gramophones, Studio Vista - Christies' South Kensington Collector's Series
Walter L. Welch and Leah Brodbeck Stenzel Burt (revised edition by Oliver Read and Walter Welch 1976, this ed. 1994), From Tinfoil to Stereo: The Acoustic Years of the Recording Industry 1877-1929, University Press of Florida
Wagner, A. F., (1991), Recollections of Thomas A. Edison, City of London Phonograph & Gramophone Society in association with Symposium Records
Magazines and Journals

Art & Design Magazine Vol. 8 1/2 1993, Profile No. 28 - Fluxus Today and Yesterday
The Wire
Hypermedia, SIG CHI Bulletin, ACM New York;
Computer and the Humanities;
Kippen, James and Bernard Bol, (1994), Computers, Composition and the Challenge of "New Music" in Modern India, in Leonardo Music Journal Vol. 4 pp. 79-81
October;
Iris
Ellis 1994 , 'Powerful Songs: Their Placement in Aboriginal Thought in The World of Music': Journal of the International Institute for Traditional Music Vol. 36 (1) 1994 p3-20.
Recommended Records Quarterly magazine, (1987), Vol. 2, No. 1, (Interview with Pierre Schaeffer by Tim Hodgkinson)
Recommended Records Quarterly magazine, (1987), Vol. 2, No. 2
Newspaper Articles, Pamphlets and Facsimiles

Sun Newspaper; Thursday 6th February 1992: 'Silent CD Is A Hit'
'Recognition of the Sound Recording as a Cultural Medium', (1973) pamphlet issued by the IFPI: International Federation of the Phonographic Industry
Edison's Phonographs, (1902), published by E. Bayley, The Talking Machine Review International, 19, Glendale Road, Bournemouth, BH6 4JA.
New Century Phonographs Catalogue of 1903/04, published by City of London Phonograph & Gramophone Society, 134 Railway Terrace, Rugby, CV21 3HN.
Multimedia Works

Campbell, Oona and Paul Ramsay, (1995), Collages, Engaged Magazine No. 3 (CD ROM Issue)
Gabriel, Peter, (1994), EXPLORA 1: Peter Gabriel's Secret World, REALWORLD, MAC CD ROM
Technical References

Illingworth, Valerie (ed.), (1991), The Penguin Dictionary of Physics, Penguin
Károlyi, Ottó, (1984), Introducing Music, Pelican
Lovelock, William, (1984), The Rudiments of Music, Bell & Hyman Ltd.

Discography

Adams, John, (1985), Light Over Water, New Albion Records NA 005
Bryars, Gavin, (1975), The Sinking Of The Titanic, OBSCURE OBS 1
Davis, Miles, (1969), In A Silent Way, CBS 450982 1
Eno, Brian, (1979), Ambient 1: Music For Airports, Editions EG EGS 201
Giorno, John, Laurie Anderson, William Burroughs, (1981), You' re The Guy I Want To Share My Money With, Giorno Poetry Systems LP, GPS 020 - 021
Glass, Philip, (1974), Music in Twelve Parts: Parts 1 & 2, Virgin Records CA2010
HMV recording, (date unknown), 'Nightingales' and 'Dawn in an Old World Garden (English Songbirds Awakening'), HMV B 2469
James, Richard, (1994), Selected Ambient Works Vol. II, Warp WARPCD21
Partch, Harry, (1953?), Plectra & Percussion Dances, Gate 5 Records Issue C: HO8P - 1322
Reed, Lou, (1975), Metal Machine Music, RCA PIPDC 023
Reich, Steve, (1978), Music for 18 Musicians, ECM 1129
Schaeffer, Pierre, (19??) Etude aux Objets, Philips 835 487 AY
Neiss, James (executive producer),(1988), Futurism & Dada Reviewed, Sub Rosa SUB CD 012-19
Musicography

Cage, John, (1952), 4' 33"
Cage, John, (1960), Cartridge Music
Messiaen, Olivier, (1956), Oiseaux Exotiques


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