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EVENTS AND NOTES

See below.

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MAIN READINGS

Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, has an essay called "Loops of Perception: Sampling, Memory and the Semantic Web" in HorizonZero 8 (April/May 2003).

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SELECTED TEXTS

Brindle, Reginald Smith. The New Music: The Avant-Garde Since 1945. New York: Oxford UP, 1975.

Cage, John and Joan Retallack. Musicage: Cage Muses on Words Art Music. Hanover: Wesleyan UP, 1996.

Davies, Hugh. "A History of Sampling." Organised Sound: An International Journal of Music Technology 1.1
    (April 1996): 3-11. [A short summary can be found here]

Duckworth, William. Talking Music: Conversations With John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson,
    and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers. New York: Schirmer, 1995.

Eno, Brian. A Year With Swollen Appendices. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1996.

Eshun, Kodwo. More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction. London: Quartet Books, 1998.

Nyman, Michael. Experimental Music : Cage and Beyond. New York : Cambridge UP, 1999.

Page, Tim. "Music in Twelve Parts." Writings on Glass: Essays, Interviews, Criticism. Ed. Richard Kostelanetz
    and Robert Flemming. New York: Schirmer Books, 1997.

Prendergast, Mark and Brian Eno. The Ambient Century: From Mahler to Trance: The Evolution of Sound in the Electronic Age.
    New York: Bloomsbury and St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Rose, Tricia. "Give Me a (Break) Beat!: Sampling and Repetition in Rap Production." Culture on the Brink:
    Ideologies of Technology. Ed. Gretchen Bender and Timothy Druckrey. Seattle: Bay Press, 1994.

Theberge, Paul. Any Sound You Can Imagine: Making Music/Consuming Technology (Music/Culture). Hanover: Wesleyan UP, 1997.

Watkins, Glenn. Pyramids at the Louvre: Music, Culture, and Collage from Stravinsky to the Postmodernists.
    Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1994. [A short summary can be found here]

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REPRESENTATIVE WORKS

Classical and Jazz

John Cage Concert for Piano and Orchestra 1957-8

Miles Davis Bitches Brew 1969

Philip Glass Music in Twelve Parts 1971-4

Herbie Hancock Thrust 1974

Also:
Duke Ellington, "Harlem Air Shaft" (1940); John Coltrane, A Love Supreme (1964)

Hip-Hop

Beastie Boys Paul’s Boutique 1989

De La Soul Three Feet High and Rising 1989

A Tribe Called Quest People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm 1990

Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet 1990

Also:
Eric B. and Rakim, Paid In Full (1987); Lee "Scratch" Perry, Scratch Attack (1988); EPMD, Strictly Business (1988); N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton (1988);
Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back(1988); Genius/GZA Liquid Swords (1995)

Ambient

Also:
Brian Eno, Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978); The Clash, Sandinista! (1980); Air, Moon Safari (1998)

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LINKS

Check out DJ Spooky's Abstrakt Blowback '03: The Satyagraha Mix (Look here for a track listing), which is available in his catalogue of webmixes, as well as in the materials section of this course.

Thank Iceland for Björk

Doug Pray's film Scratch, which premiered at Sundance in 2001, provides a historical background to the world of DJs, hiphop and turntables.

Yahoo! maintains an archive on Digital Music

Zimbabwean theorist Charles Mudede has an essay in 28 scratches on The Turntable at ctheory.net

Brad S. Benjamin has compiled an excellent Samples and References List regarding Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys.

Visit Matt Lima's temporary download page and listen to his composition Sourate, which has been described as "globalized electropop, a mix of samples from Cuba, Ghana, Japan, Europe, Turkey, with a generous dose of drum & bass programming."

What's up with MC Hawking?

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