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Chapters: Brian Eno, Edward Fitzgerald, Charlie Simpson, Edwin Lankester, Norman Heatley, John Brinkley, Roger Eno, Francis Thompson, Frank Morley, Phil Rivers, Diana Keppel, Countess of Albemarle, Rosemarie Stewart, Thomas Wade, Thomas Seckford, Wade Thomas, James Cockle, Jamie Allen, Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw, Brinsley Schwarz, Mamaine Koestler, Thomas Churchyard. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 84. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948), commonly known as Brian Eno and previously, simply as Eno (pronounced ), is an English musician, composer, record producer, music theorist, artist and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music. Eno studied at art school, taking inspiration from minimalist painting, but he had little musical education or playing experience when he joined the band Roxy Music as their keyboards and synthesisers player in the early 1970s. Roxy Music's success in the glam rock scene came quickly, but Eno soon tired of conflicts with lead singer Bryan Ferry, and of touring, and he left the group after the release of For Your Pleasure (1973), beginning his solo career with the art rock records Here Come the Warm Jets (1974) and Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (1974). Eno extended his reach into more experimental musical styles with No Pussyfooting (1973) and Evening Star (1975) collaborations with Robert Fripp, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974) by Genesis where he is credited with Enossification, the influential Another Green World (1975) and Discreet Music (1975). His pioneering ambient efforts at "sonic landscapes" began to consume more of his time beginning with Ambient 1/Music for Airports (1978) and later Apollo: Atmospheres and So...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21222062 ... Read more

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Commentary (music and lyrics not included).Chapters: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, No Line on the Horizon, Achtung Baby, the Joshua Tree, Remain in Light, the Unforgettable Fire, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, All That You Can't Leave Behind, Zooropa, Before and After Science, Fear of Music, Here Come the Warm Jets, Another Green World, Are We Not Men? We Are Devo!, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Original Soundtracks 1, Surprise, Outside, the Complete U2, U218 Singles, No New York, Thursday Afternoon, on Land, the Million Dollar Hotel: Music From the Motion Picture, Music for Airports, Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks, Once in a Lifetime, Another Day on Earth, Wide Awake in America, Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics, Music for Films, the Essential Johnny Cash, Dune, Times Square, Nerve Net, the Plateaux of Mirror, Bowie Box Set (Outside, Earthling, Hours, Heathen, Reality- 10cd), More Songs About Buildings and Food, Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites, Faith and Courage, Compact Forest Proposal, Ultravox!, When I Was a Boy, Day of Radiance, Medium, Rare & Remastered, Bright Red, the Best of Talking Heads, Extracts From Music for White Cube, London 1997, Evening Star, the Pearl, Lightness: Music for the Marble Palace - the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Music for Films Iii, Words for the Dying, After the Heat, Shleep, Wrong Way Up, Bonus Rarities and Outtakes, Wah Wah, Laid, Three Into One, Lucky Leif and the Longships, Pleased to Meet You, Decay Music, Millionaires, the Pavilion of Dreams, Old Land, the White Arcades, the Drop, Hybrid, Neroli, Exile, Curiosities Volume 1. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 200. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today is the second album made in collaboration between David Byrne and Bria...http://booksllc.net/?id=18622850 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Bill Pritchard, Joe Meek, Brian Eno, John Cale, George Martin, John Fryer, Dave Stewart, Jeff Lynne, Steven Wilson, Johnny Harris, John Parish, Alan Parsons, Darren Tate, Nigel Godrich, Ott., Nick Lowe, Geoff Emerick, John Leckie, Daniel Miller, Dave Edmunds, Norman Newell, Tom Newman, Steve Lillywhite, Max Tundra, Martin Hannett, Mike Hedges, Kit Lambert, Owen Morris, Trevor Horn, Gil Norton, Glyn Johns, Martin Glover, Robert Lange, Chris Stamp, James Ellis Ford, Greg Lake, Bill Curbishley, Alex Fergusson, Switch, Chris Hughes, Flood, Clive Martin, Phil Thornalley, Guy Stevens, Ivo Watts-Russell, Walter Legge, Gareth Jones, Rob Gretton, Ken Scott, Gary Langan, Sidestepper, Jonathan King, David Bascombe, Martin Birch, Stephen Street, Cenzo Townshend, Peter Grant, James Guthrie, Paul Reeve, Jeanette Lee, Max Norman, Glenn Max. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Bill Pritchard, né en 1956 à Walsall (Midlands de l'Ouest, Royaume-Uni), est un auteur-compositeur-interprète britannique, également instrumentiste (guitares, claviers), arrangeur musical et producteur. Originaire des Midlands, Bill Pritchard réside toujours dans la région natale, à Walsall près de Birmingham où il exerce la profession de professeur de français parallèlement à ses activités musicales. Il abhorre les paillettes du show-biz et aime retrouver de temps en temps ses copains au pub du coin, comme autrefois. C'est dans son garage, spécialement aménagé, qu'il s'adonne à sa recherche musicale car, faire de la musique, c'est pour lui quelque chose de très naturel : Il grandit, pétri de culture française, de son cinéma (la Nouvelle Vague, François Truffaut, La Belle et la Bête, Arletty, Leos Carax) à sa littérature (Paul Verlaine, Jea...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Title: Music for iPorts.(SOUND)(Brian Eno's Bloom)
Author: Damon Krukowski
Publication: Artforum International (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2009
Publisher: Artforum International Magazine, Inc.
Volume: 47Issue: 6Page: 73(1)

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music that features foreboding, ominous, or discordant overtones. Dark ambient emerged in the 1980s and 1990s with the introduction of new synthesizer and sampling technology in the electronic music genre and other technical advances in music. Dark ambient is an unusually diverse genre, related to industrial music, noise, ethereal wave, and black metal, yet generally free from derivatives and connections to other genres or styles. ... Read more

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A Good Beer Guide
Stafford Beer was one of the foremost holistic thinkers of the twentieth century. As this exciting collection of his writings makes clear, his approach was highly dynamic and systemic. He was a social scientist concerned with transformations of the self and society. He was a pioneer in the application of cybernetics and systems theory to increase our awareness and understanding of how any complex system can learn, adapt and evolve - or fail.
There are many references here to his illustrious mentors and peers including Wiener, Ashby, Bateson, von Foerster, McCulloch, Maturana, Varela and Pask. The book also has much biographical material including photographs never previously published as well as Beer's paintings and poetry.
The musician Brian Eno has contributed an insightful foreword about his friendship with Beer and the importance of cybernetic thinking for his music making.
This is the most comprehensive anthology of Beer's work to date and it brings a fresh perspective to the man and his ideas. It is available from Wavestone Press in Oxfordshire, UK. ... Read more

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152 page profusely illustrated exhibition catalogue along with "compact forest proposal" a 50 minute audio cd composed and performed by brian eno especially for the exhibition.a limited number of these cds were available only at the exhibition.book and cd are brand new even though cd has a cracked jewel box ... Read more

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Spin, May 1989. Features a cover story on Elvis Costello. Other stories are on Brian Eno, De La Soul, Throwing Muses, Living Colour, and Saturday Night Lives Michael ODonoghue. ... Read more

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Chapters: Brian Kelly, Roy Kramer, Brian Vangorder, Dan Enos, Mike Debord, Ron Finch, Nick Caserio, Warren Schmakel, Wallace Parker, Harry Helmer, George Van Bibber, Ralph Thacker, Dick Flynn, Lester Barnard, Charles Tambling, Ernest Jones, Lyle Bennett, Fred Johnson, Alex Yunevich, Carl Pray, Herb Deromedi, A. J. Nowak, Garland Nevitt, Joe Simmons, Blake Miller, Pete Mccormick, Hugh Sutherland. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 75. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Brian Kelly (born October 25, 1961) in Everett, Massachusetts) is the current head football coach at the University of Notre Dame. He was previously head coach at the University of Cincinnati, Central Michigan University, and Grand Valley State University. Kelly has a wife (Paqui) and 3 children (Patrick, Grace, and Kenzel). Kelly is a native of Chelsea, Massachusetts and attended St. John's Preparatory School in Danvers, Massachusetts. His father was a Boston politician. He was a four-year letter winner at Assumption College as a linebacker. After graduating from Assumption in 1983 with a bachelor's degree in political science he served as linebackers coach, defensive coordinator, and softball coach from 1983-86 at Assumption. Kelly joined the Grand Valley State University staff in 1987 as a graduate assistant and defensive backs coach for Coach Tom Beck and became the defensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator in 1989. Coach Kelly took over as head coach in 1991. In his final three seasons the Lakers went 41-2, at one point winning 20 consecutive games. The Lakers went 14-0 in 2002 en route to their first national title and went 14-1 in 2003 when they claimed their second National Championship. Kelly was named the AFCA Division II Coach of the Year after each of these championship years. In his 13 years as head c...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7054025 ... Read more

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Michael Nyman's book is a first-hand account of experimental music from 1950 to 1970. First published in 1974, it has remained the classic text on a significant form of music making and composing that developed alongside, and partly in opposition to, the postwar modernist tradition of composers such as Boulez, Berio, or Stockhausen. The experimentalist par excellence was John Cage whose legendary 4' 33'' consists of four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence to be performed on any instrument. Such pieces have a conceptual rather than purely musical starting point and radically challenge conventional notions of the musical work. Nyman's book traces the revolutionary attitudes that were developed toward concepts of time, space, sound, and composer/performer responsibility. It was within the experimental tradition that the seeds of musical minimalism were sown and the book contains reference to the early works of Reich, Riley, Young, and Glass.This second edition contains a new Foreword, an updated discography, and a historical overview by the author. ... Read more

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Somewhat superficial
For me the most useful thing about this book is that it has a lot of score excerpts that are useful if you're teaching at a university with a poor library. In the last few years a lot of valuable primary source material and interpretive writing has become available in book form through publishers like Musiktexte, and in scholarly journals like 'Perspectives in New Music'. I think the book is a fairly superficial survey, and I know its often used in introductory courses, but I don't like to recommend it to undergraduates because it's not a model for good scholarship because of the lack of citations like footnotes or endnotes when information comes from other sources.

Not a revision, a reprint
The other reviews catch it all. Nyman's points are 'interesting', but it is Nyman. This is my second copy as I thought it was revised. It's a reprint.

A Classic Introduction
Not only is this a great introduction for someone who doesn't know his or her way around this subject, but it offers more experienced listeners and readers Nyman's own sensitive, and (to my mind) highly accurate, takes on what Cage, Feldman, Brown, Cardew, LaMonte Young and others were up to back in the pre-revolutionary 50's and the revolutionary 60's and 70's.This is a snapshot, if you will, of many of the giants fully formed, and some, like Gavin Bryars, in the larval stages of their genius, so it makes for a fascinating read.Nyman's prose is pellucid, and his explanations cogent.My dream is that Michael Nyman will someday return to update this book and offer some insights on the new, strange paths, experimental music has taken in the age of the personal computer, robotics and the Internet.

THE 20th CENTURY RADICAL AVANT-GARDE
In this work originally published in 1974, Nyman discusses the work of composers and performers who shifted the boundaries of music as regards notation, time, space, and the roles of the composer, performer and audience. The author seeks to identify and explain a whole body of musical work that existed outside the classical tradition and the avant-garde orthodoxies that flowed from it. He thus explores the Anglo-American musical tradition loosely associated with John Cage. Since 1974 this book has been considered the classical work on the radical alternative to the mainstream avant-garde as represented by Berio, Boulez and Stockhausen. Many of the current popular composers like Glass and Reich trace their root to this experimental school. The most fascinating chapter to me is "Minimal Music, Determinacy And The New Tonality" in which the Theatre Of Eternal Music (Tony Conrad, La Monte Young, Marion Zazeela and John Cale) as well as the work of Terry Riley is discussed. Photographs, illustrations and musical notations enliven the text and the book concludes with a selected source bibliography, a discography of experimental music and a bibliography of publications since 1974. Brian Eno has contributed an interesting foreword to this edition. The text can get a bit technical for the non-musician, but it remains a detailed work on a radical musical direction that has borne great fruit in the years since it was first analysed in this thorough and scholarly work.

processes and fields of sound, not time-objects...
Nyman's 1974 classic is here reprinted sans revisions.Brilliant!It captures a moment -- as Nyman concludes his preface, "Thank goodness I wrote it when I did."EM is not a survey of 20th century avant-garde music.It focuses on one trend, inaugurated by Cage, Wolff, Feldman and Brown in the 1950s, a trend which explicitly attempted to overturn the traditional avant-garde then marching under the banner of total serialism.Nyman contrasts Wolff to Stockhausen, then a leading serialist:"Stockhausen is speaking of an unwanted situation needing to be remedied by his intervention, Wolff of a situation he is quite happy to accept, leaving sounds to go their own way." (27)As Cage says in his "Silence,"

"Not an attempt to understand...Just an attention to the activity of sounds."

One of the great strengths of Nyman's short book is his careful attempt to define experimental music before he moves on to discuss the artists and their music.To summarize and paraphrase, he says experimental composers are excited by creating "a process of generating action," involving situations or fields delineated by compositional rules, but leaving them open to the performers. (4)

Experimental music is uncompromisingly radical, and represents an ongoing influence on creative music, but has certainly not become any sort of popular movement.So for instance, while the early "minimalists" Young and Riley were arguably part of the experimental tendency, as were Reich's early phase patterns, (and hence are included here by Nyman), the later works of Reich, and especially Glass, are no longer open and experimental.And while Eno and recent techno/ambient artists have been influenced, their innovations have been more technical than conceptual by comparison.

My recommendation if this sounds intriguing -- check out anything by the English free-improv group AMM, which is nowadays constituted by Eddie Prevost on percussion, Keith Rowe on guitar and electronics, and John Tilbury on piano! ... Read more