Music Technology Books

New and Published Books

1. Liveness in Modern Music

   Musicians, Technology, and the Perception of Performance

   By Paul Sanden

   Series: Routledge Research in Music

   This study investigates the idea and practice of liveness in modern music. Understanding what makes music live in an ever-changing musical and technological terrain is one of the more complex and timely challenges facing scholars of current music, where liveness is typically understood to represent...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. iPad Music

   In the Studio and on Stage

   By Mark Jenkins

   Just as computer software changed the face of performing and recording over the past decades, Apple's iPad® tablet has the power to change how you produce music today. Author Mark Jenkins summarizes the iPad tablet's massive potential for music creation, explaining in detail how all iPad models can...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Focal Press
3. The Sound Studies Reader

   Edited by Jonathan Sterne

   The Sound Studies Reader blends recent work that self-consciously describes itself as ‘sound studies’ along with earlier and lesser-known scholarship on sound from across the humanities and social sciences. The Sound Studies Reader touches on key themes like noise and silence; architecture,...

   Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Digital Musician

   2nd Edition

   By Andrew Hugill

   The Digital Musician is a textbook for creative music technology and electronic music courses. It provides an overview of sound properties, acoustics, digital music, and sound design as a basis for understanding the compositional possibilities that new music technologies allow. Creative projects...

   Published June 19th 2012 by Routledge
5. Making Music with Sounds

   By Leigh Landy

   Making Music with Sounds offers a creative introduction to the art of making sound-based music. It introduces the elements of making compositions with sounds and facilitates creativity in school age children, with the activities primarily for 11-14 year old students. It can also be used by people...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
6. Bodily Expression in Electronic Music

   Perspectives on Reclaiming Performativity

   Edited by Deniz Peters, Gerhard Eckel, Andreas Dorschel

   Series: Routledge Research in Music

   In this book, scholars and artists explore the relation between electronic music and bodily expression from perspectives including aesthetics, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, dance and interactive performance arts, sociology, computer music and sonic arts, and music theory, transgressing...

   Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge
7. The Sound Handbook

   By Tim Crook

   Series: Media Practice

   'Tim Crook has written an important and much-needed book, and its arrival on our shelves has come at a highly appropriate time.' Professor Seán Street, Bournemouth University The Sound Handbook maps theoretical and practical connections between the creation and study of sound across the multi-media...

   Published November 20th 2011 by Routledge
8. Music Technology and the Project Studio

   Synthesis and Sampling

   By Dan Hosken

   Music Technology and the Project Studio: Synthesis and Sampling provides clear explanations of synthesis and sampling techniques and how to use them effectively and creatively. Starting with analog-style synthesis as a basic model, this textbook explores in detail how messages from a MIDI...

   Published September 5th 2011 by Routledge
9. The Music Industry Handbook

   By Paul Rutter

   Series: Media Practice

   The Music Industry Handbook provides a clear introduction to how the music industry works, unpacking the complex structures within the industry and mapping it as it exists today. Paul Rutter introduces readers to key industry sectors in an easy-to-digest format, then goes on to explore the...

   Published May 12th 2011 by Routledge
10. Production & Consumption of Music

    Edited by Alan Bradshaw, Avi Shankar

    This collection considers music within the spheres of production and consumption and pulls together an interdisciplinary collection of music studies from around the world, ranging from an ethnomusicological analysis of the condition of Tibetan music and its role within the Chinese state, the...

    Published December 2nd 2010 by Routledge