‘In the last few decades, new technologies have brought composers and listeners to the brink of an era of limitless musical possibility. They stand before a vast ocean of creative potential, in which any sounds imaginable can be synthesised and pieced together into radical new styles and forms of music-making. But are musicians taking advantage of this potential? How could we go about creating and listening to new music, and why should we?Bringing the ideas of twentieth-century avant-garde composers Arnold Schoenberg and John Cage to their ultimate conclusion, Infinite Music proposes a system for imagining music based on its capacity for variation, redefining musical modernism and music itself in the process. By detailing not just how music is composed but crucially how it's perceived, Infinite Music maps the future of music and the many paths towards it.’
Infinite Music is a super clear, open-ended philosophy of sound and music for the post-rave generation. Essential reading for sonic modernists everywhere. - Cristian Vogel
A timely analysis of musical evolution at a moment when many practitioners have become fixated on the past and thinkers have found themselves unable to locate possible futures. - Steve Goodman, author of Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear
My book Infinite Music will be released on November 25th by Zer0 Books. It’s now available for pre-order (click here to do so via the Zer0 website).
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nice, I would like to learn more about it.
ReplyDeletethanks, I'll be talking about it in various places over the next few months - will post the results up here hopefully.
ReplyDeleteCongrats! Fantastic to see this done. Pre-ordered, we'll see when it shows up here in Canada.
ReplyDelete-Brian (previously of http://thegreatestconversation.com)
looking forward to read this...see you soon in London!
ReplyDeleteWould like to read right now! Congratulations Adam, I really love your work!
ReplyDeleteGreat read so far (36% into it via Kindle). It finely tunes some of my own approaches into a more concise system of systems and has introduced some new ideas about ideas for me to explore. I have spent a lot of time searching for books that pertain to my needs in being systematic and forward thinking (current and out of print) in regards to ''meta technique" and happy to report this is the one of the best I have purchased, quite unique in it's thesis (other favorite authored works include Trevor Wishart, Otto Laske, Leigh Landy, James Tenney, and Augoyard/Torgue.
ReplyDeleteEven better, I learned of this blog from it and am very much enjoying your recent audio versions of longer posts...fantastic resource of new inspirations all around ;-)