{"product_id":"live-wires-a-history-of-electronic-music-9781780238241","title":"Live Wires: A History of Electronic Music","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe live in an electronic world  saturated with electronic sounds. Yet  electronic sounds arent a new phenomenon; they have long permeated our sonic landscape. What began as the otherworldly sounds of the film score for the 1956 film Forbidden Planet and the rarefied  new timbres of Stockhausens Kontakte a few years later  is now a common soundscape in technology  media  and an array of musical genres and subgenres. More people than ever before can produce and listen to electronic music  from isolated experimenters  classical and jazz musicians  to rock musicians  sound recordists  and the newer generations of electronic musicians making hip-hop  house  techno  and ambient music. Increasingly we are listening to electronic sounds  finding new meanings in them  experimenting with them  and rehearing them as listeners and makers.  Live Wires explores how five key electronic technologiesthe tape recorder  circuit  computer  microphone  and turntablerevolutionized musical thought. Featuring the work of major figures in electronic musicincluding everyone from Schaeffer  Varse  Xenakis  Babbitt  and Oliveros to Eno  Keith Emerson  Grandmaster Flash  Juan Atkins  and Holly HerndonLive Wires is an arresting discussion of the powerful musical ideas that are being recycled  rethought  and remixed by the most interesting electronic composers and musicians today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652263600181,"sku":"ByrdShop_178023824X","price":159.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781780238241.jpg?v=1781850419","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/live-wires-a-history-of-electronic-music-9781780238241","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}