The book of music and nature : an anthology of sounds, words, thoughts /
"This innovative book and online CD, assembled by the editors of the renowned periodical Terra Nova, is the first anthology published on the subject of music and nature. Lush and evocative, yoking together the simplicities and complexities of the world of natural sound and the music inspired by...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Middletown, Connecticut :
Wesleyan University Press,
2009.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: | Music/culture
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Does nature understand music? / David Rothenberg
- The music of the spheres / Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Primal sound / Rainer Maria Rilke
- Happy new ears / John Cage
- Diary : Emma Lake Music Workshop 1965 / John Cage
- An interview with Pierre Schaeffer / Tim Hodgkinson
- Deus ex machina / Evan Eisenberg
- Music and the soundscape / R. Murray Schafer
- The music of the earth / Tsai Chih Chung
- From The bear comes home / Rafi Zabor
- Sax can moo ... / Steve Lacy
- From Piano pieces / Russell Sherman
- Music, nature, and computers : a showdown / Jaron Lanier
- Nature, sound art, and the sacred / David Dunn
- My one conversation with Collin Walcott / David James Duncan
- From Coming through slaughter / Michael Ondaatje
- From Rubicon beach / Steve Erickson
- The Sharawadji effect / Claude Schryer
- Sonic images / Pauline Oliveros
- The poetics of environmental sound / Pauline Oliveros
- Ambient music / Brian Eno
- Speaking from inside the soundscape / Hildegard Westerkamp
- Toothwalkers / Douglas Quin
- Blind listening / Francisco López
- From Exotica / David Toop
- From Brother of sleep / Robert Schneider
- The place where you go to listen / John Luther Adams
- Nature and music / Toru Takemitsu
- Lift-up-over sounding / Steven Feld
- Sweet singer of the pine barrens / Eric Salzman
- Where the sounds live / Bernie Krause
- From "A portrait of Shunkin" / Junichiro Tanizaki.