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The Music

An Album in Words

By (author) Matthew Herbert
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Unbound, United Kingdom
Imprint: Unbound Digital
Published: 5th Apr 2018
Dimensions: w 141mm h 222mm d 21mm
Weight: 362g
ISBN-10: 178352507X
ISBN-13: 9781783525072
Barcode No: 9781783525072
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Synopsis
In the last hundred years - between the invention of the microphone and the computer - music has undergone a profound revolution. No longer confined to specifically designed instruments, we can now make music out of anything. Why use a guitar when you can use a lawnmower? Why use a lawnmower when you can use an explosion in Libya? The Music evokes a shifting sonic landscape in precise detail: Chinese concrete slowly hardening, overlaid by a splintering cassette tape in the stereo of a car mid-crash. The noise of 73,984 insects hitting number plates followed by that of a drill striking oil deep beneath the earth's surface. Or just the silence of two unfamiliar people as they look up at the night sky. As well as being a description of an imagined album, this book is a manifesto for sound, challenging how we hear the world itself, while listening to stories about humanity and our place in that world.

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'A dizzying display of imagination' Paul Griffiths, TLS
'There is no one better to have written The Music than the king of found sound . . . An entire game-changing performance' DJ Mag