China exists today in a liminal realm, caught between thesocialist idealism of old and a calamitous drive for wealthspurned by recent free-market reforms. This seeminglyunbridgeable gap tears at the country’s social fabric whileprovoking younger generations to greater artistic heights. Theunique sound emerging from Beijing’s underground delvesdeeply into this void, aggressively...(展开全部)

Over the past century, an art form has emerged that draws from the worlds of visual art and music. Sound art’s roots can be found in the experimental work of Italian Futurism, Dada, and later the Fluxus group and the pioneering efforts of the American composer and artist John Cage. In the wake of this groundbreaking work, sound art began to mature into a movement, and artists e...(展开全部)

Over the past century, an art form has emerged that draws from the worlds of visual art and music. Sound art’s roots can be found in the experimental work of Italian Futurism, Dada, and later the Fluxus group and the pioneering efforts of the American composer and artist John Cage. In the wake of this groundbreaking work, sound art began to mature into a movement, and artists e...(展开全部)

【知名Geek杂志Wired最近上了一篇关于北京地下摇滚的文章，专访了一个叫Matthew Niederhauser的摄影师，他不久前出了本书，叫《Sound Kapital》，首都之音，书里记录了大量近两年来北京地下摇滚的场景，大多是新一代的乐队，而且主要是兵马司系的。 我好像在D22翻过这本书，很多照片里的红色背景感觉像是。。。愚公移山？反正呢，从这本书里你可以认识很多目前活跃于北京摇滚第一线的乐队，这些乐队中的大多数又有一个共同的特点，“洋气”——全盘西化的曲风、英文创作、日范海报以及趋之若鹜的外国听众——据说，重塑雕像的权利、P.K.14、SMZB等乐队的欧洲巡演相当火爆。 很明显，相比老一代的“土摇”，我们已经很难在新一代的年轻乐队身上感受到那股“死磕”的劲儿了，他们不再把摇滚当作是一种神圣的玩意儿，不再为了摇滚而孤注一掷，而只是把摇滚当作...(展开全部)

The groundbreaking mix CD that accompanies this book features Nam Jun Paik, the Dada Movement, John Cage, Sonic Youth, and many other examples of avant-garde music. Most of the CD's content comes from the archives of Sub Rosa, a legendary record label that has been the benchmark for archival sounds since the beginnings of electronic music. (For a complete list of audio credits,...(展开全部)

A surprising study reveals a plethora of attempts to communicate with non-humans in the modern era. In Interspecies Communication, music scholar Gavin Steingo examines significant cases of attempted communication beyond the human—cases in which the dualistic relationship of human to non-human is dramatically challenged. From singing whales to Sun Ra to searching for alien life...(展开全部)

The groundbreaking mix CD that accompanies this book features Nam Jun Paik, the Dada Movement, John Cage, Sonic Youth, and many other examples of avant-garde music. Most of the CD's content comes from the archives of Sub Rosa, a legendary record label that has been the benchmark for archival sounds since the beginnings of electronic music. (For a complete list of audio credits,...(展开全部)

In Sound Alignments, a transnational group of scholars explores the myriad forms of popular music that circulated across Asia during the Cold War. Challenging the conventional alignments and periodizations of Western cultural histories of the Cold War, they trace the routes of popular music, examining how it took on new meanings and significance as it traveled across Asia, from...(展开全部)