"The Treatise on musical objects by Pierre Schaeffer is regarded as his most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer refers to h

Suitable for those interested in contemporary musicology or media history, this title offers a translation of the author's pioneering work - at once a journal o

"The Treatise on musical objects by Pierre Schaeffer is regarded as his most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer refers to h

Listening to instruments -- "The joy of precision" : mechanical instruments and the aesthetics of automation -- "The alchemy of tone" : Jörg Mager and electric

This early German 'do-it-yourself' manual tells us about music-making in the years just before the Reformation.