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Recommended if you are interested in the history behind all the use of noise in music to noise music itself, in philosophical and various critical angles, considering the vast bibliography studied for the making of this book.
XH
15 January 2011
Over-analyzed and pedantic
Having listened to a variety of noisemusics over the years, I was really excited to read this bookk which promised an overview of the genre without the hipster leanings that so often prevail when this subject has been broached (i.
FA
9 February 2008
Good noise theory;not too hard,not too soft.
Hegarty's book is not a dry,excessively detailed history but rather a work much more usefull to myself and perhaps all noisicians and sound artists.
AX
13 January 2008
Great Background and Analysis
Hegarty comes at the topic from the standpoint of an avid listener and performer, explaining and exploring what the various artists are trying to achieve.
CW
4 November 2007
Entertaining AND informative
Sometimes the writing tends to be a tad dry, but this is a serious work of scholarship regarding the \"noise\" movement through the history of music so one wouldn't expect a page turner.
DQ
17 September 2007
Dissection of Noise Into Its Component Sonic Fragments
In high school physics I was given an assignment to comprehend the entire mathematical equation of the respiratory cycle.
YP
3 September 2007
The best in theory and a wide open gate to musical skies
One of the books we had been longing for and dreaming of for a long, very long time, since the time when Pierre Schaeffer or Pierre Henry invented concrete music in the early 1940s.
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Great read. Used it as a reference for a ...
Great read.
Satisfied Me, Regarding To Noise Music
Recommended if you are interested in the history behind all the use of noise in music to noise music itself, in philosophical and various critical angles, considering the vast bibliography studied for the making of this book.
Over-analyzed and pedantic
Having listened to a variety of noisemusics over the years, I was really excited to read this bookk which promised an overview of the genre without the hipster leanings that so often prevail when this subject has been broached (i.
Good noise theory;not too hard,not too soft.
Hegarty's book is not a dry,excessively detailed history but rather a work much more usefull to myself and perhaps all noisicians and sound artists.
Great Background and Analysis
Hegarty comes at the topic from the standpoint of an avid listener and performer, explaining and exploring what the various artists are trying to achieve.
Entertaining AND informative
Sometimes the writing tends to be a tad dry, but this is a serious work of scholarship regarding the \"noise\" movement through the history of music so one wouldn't expect a page turner.
Dissection of Noise Into Its Component Sonic Fragments
In high school physics I was given an assignment to comprehend the entire mathematical equation of the respiratory cycle.
The best in theory and a wide open gate to musical skies
One of the books we had been longing for and dreaming of for a long, very long time, since the time when Pierre Schaeffer or Pierre Henry invented concrete music in the early 1940s.