Sonic Writing : Technologies of Material, Symbolic, and Signal Inscriptions.

This book explores how contemporary music technologies trace their ancestry to previous forms of instruments and media. Studying the domains of instrument design, musical notation, and sound recording under the rubrics of material, symbolic, and signal inscriptions of sound, the book describes how these historical techniques of sonic writing are implemented in new digital music technologies.

224 p.; 24 cm.
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Language: English
ISBN: 150131386X
ISBN13: 9781501313868
UPC: 9781501313868