Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture
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Editor: Paul D. MillerIntroduction: Steve Reich
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-03-14
ISBN: 0262633639
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: The MIT Press
Book Reviews of Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture
Book Review: DJ Spooky's Allstar Essay Compilation on Digital Culture & Sampling has much food for thought and it rocks
Summary: 5 Stars
This book shows off Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky's two biggest strengths, the mashup and the teamup. The big name roster didn't deliver scraps; they all provide thoughtful and entertaining essays, for example Jonathan Lethem's essay also features the key to that same essay showing where he "plagiarized" just about ever phrase in the proceeding few pages. Saul Williams, provides a pensive meditation on words as magic, something I was more used to hearing out of Grant Morrison or Alan Moore, but Williams is sincere and Smart. And the inclusion of unsung geniuses like Alex Steinweiss, the inventor of the record jacket (before him there was no art on albums, you only saw their spine at the store) pushes it over the top and into the zone. The included CD is way cool in and of itself; its easy to poopoo such ambitious works, but Spooky lays it all down with love not pretense, throwing snippets of James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs -- all actual spoken word from the Sub Rosa archivce over some avantgarde classical like John Cage, and then enriched by textured groovy beats... Spooky's having a ball and sharing the fun
Summary of Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture
The role of sound and digital media in an information-based society: artists--from Steve Reich and Pierre Boulez to Chuck D and Moby--describe their work.
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