EMF'S GUIDE TO BOOKS, CDS, DVDS, AND OTHER MATERIALS

Criticism and Ideas

View: Sound Unbound

Sound Unbound

Paul Miller's compilation of articles by artists and others on sound and media art and life

CDe #: MB280

Publisher: MIT Press

List: $29


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View: Music, Electronic Media and Culture

Music, Electronic Media and Culture

A fascinating collection of essays addressing philosophical and cultural aspects of electronic sound

CDe #: MB194

Publisher: Ashgate

List: $99


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View: Billy Kluver<br /><i>A Day With Picasso</i>

Billy Kluver
A Day With Picasso

Billy Kluver recreates a single afternoon in the lives of Picasso and friends in Paris on August 12, 1916.

CDe #: MB149-3

Publisher: MIT Press

List: $16


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View: Noise Water Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts

Noise Water Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts

Douglas Kahn explores sound as exhibited by major works of the 20th century

CDe #: MB180

Publisher: MIT Press

List: $26


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View: Wireless Imagination

Wireless Imagination

A collection of new and newly translated articles on the history of audio art

CDe #: MB147

Publisher: MIT Press

List: $32


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View: Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization

Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization

Alexander Galloway argues that the founding principle of the internet is control, not freedom

CDe #: MB241

Publisher: MIT Press / Leonardo

List: $32


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View: Leigh Landy<br /><i>Understanding the Art of Sound Organization</i>

Leigh Landy
Understanding the Art of Sound Organization

Leigh Landy's book is an excellent exploration of a new world of sound.

CDe #: MB278

Publisher: MIT Press

List: $39


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View: Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age

Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age

A discussion of how information technology relates to postmodern philosophical thought

CDe #: MB234

Publisher: MIT Press / Leonardo

List: $60


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View: Sudden Music

Sudden Music

A testament to the creative, surprising power of improvisation in different traditions

CDe #: MB208

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

List: $29


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View: Rhythm Science

Rhythm Science

A manifesto for rhythm science, the creation of art from the flow of patterns in sound and culture

CDe #: MB255

Publisher: MIT Press

List: $21


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View: Women, Art, and Technology

Women, Art, and Technology

Judy Malloy's compendium of writing by women artists who have played a central role in the development of new media practice

CDe #: MB247

Publisher: MIT Press / Leonardo

List: $39


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View: Sounding Art

Sounding Art

Eight extended and thoughtful essays by composer Katharine Norman on electronic music

CDe #: MB250

Publisher: Ashgate

List: $87


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View: Uncanny Networks

Uncanny Networks

Geert Lovink's online interviews over a period of weeks and months with artists, critics and theorists

CDe #: MB245

Publisher: MIT Press / Leonardo

List: $17


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View: Being About Music Volume 1

Being About Music Volume 1

A collection of writings on music from 1960 through 1978 by J.K. Randall and Benjamin Boretz

CDe #: MB258

Publisher: Open Space

List: $28


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View: Being About Music Volume 2

Being About Music Volume 2

A collection of writings on music from 1960 through 2003 by J.K. Randall and Benjamin Boretz

CDe #: MB259

Publisher: Open Space

List: $28


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View: Metal And Flesh

Metal And Flesh

Olivier Dyens writes about technology changing our perception of the world and cultural biology

CDe #: MB240

Publisher: MIT Press / Leonardo

List: $24


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View: Artifacts

Artifacts

Essays on the relationships between music, art, and design

CDe #: MB204

Publisher: Necessary Arts

List: $17


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View: Virtual Art

Virtual Art

Oliver Grau shows how virtual art fits into the art history of illusion and immersion

CDe #: MB246

Publisher: MIT Press / Leonardo

List: $48


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View: Windows and Mirrors

Windows and Mirrors

The point is that computers are now taking their place beside other media

CDe #: MB232

Publisher: MIT Press / Leonardo

List: $29


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View: The Language of New Media

The Language of New Media

A systematic and rigorous theory of new media by Lev Manovich

CDe #: MB239

Publisher: MIT Press / Leonardo

List: $23


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View: The Robot in the Garden

The Robot in the Garden

Edited by Ken Goldberg, this book initiates a critical theory of telerobotics and introduces the concept of telepistemology

CDe #: MB243

Publisher: MIT Press / Leonardo

List: $25


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View: Meta-Variations / Compose Yourself

Meta-Variations / Compose Yourself

Two inseparable books of relections on music by Benjamin Boretz and J. K. Randall.

CDe #: MB169

Publisher: Open Space

List: $25


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View: The Digital Dialectic

The Digital Dialectic

An interdisciplinary jam session about our visual and intellectual cultures as the computer recodes technologies, media, and art forms

CDe #: MB235

Publisher: MIT Press / Leonardo

List: $23


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View: Art and Innovation

Art and Innovation

Craig Harris' book explores the result of pairing new media artists and scientists to work together

CDe #: MB233

Publisher: MIT Press / Leonardo

List: $39


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View: Immersed in Technology

Immersed in Technology

Eleven essays on the social and cultural implications of cyberspace plus nine virtual environments

CDe #: MB237

Publisher: MIT Press / Leonardo

List: $27


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View: Improvisation: Its Nature And Practice In Music

Improvisation: Its Nature And Practice In Music

Derek Bailey's essay on improvisation as basic to all music-making

CDe #: MB123

Publisher: Da Capo

List: $16


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View: Max Neuhaus

Max Neuhaus

Max Neuhaus, master percussionist turned sound artist, is known for his sound installations in specific environments.

CDe #: MB285

Publisher: Dia Art Foundation

List: $35


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Oliver Grau
MediaArtHistories

This book is a collection of essays that contextualize media art in a mainstream of art history.

CDe #: MB276-12

Publisher: MIT Press

List: $39


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View: Simon Emmerson<br /><i>Living Electronic Music</i>

Simon Emmerson
Living Electronic Music

Simon Emmerson's book explores today's technology-based music, how we create it, and how we listen to it.

CDe #: MB286

Publisher: Ashgate

List: $33


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View: Surface Tension

Surface Tension

This book examines the conversations that occur between cultural production and the place of its reception

CDe #: MB231

Publisher: Errant Bodies Press

List: $20


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