New books in EMS' library

• Bailey, Thomas Bey William: Micro-bionic : radical electronic music and sound art in the 21st century
• Composers inside electronics : music after David Tudor (Leonardo music journal, vol. 14)
• Edström, Olle (ed.): Säg det om toner och därtill i ord : musikforskare berättar om 1900-talets musikliv
• Frisk, Henrik: Improvisation, computers and interaction : rethinking human-computer interaction through music (Doctoral studies and research in fine and performing arts ; 6)
• Haglund, Magnud (ed.): Musikens plats = The place of music (ArtMonitor : en tidskrift för konstnärlig forskning, no. 7, 2009)
• Hansen, Tone (ed.): To be heard is to be seen
• Hedfors, Per: Site soundscapes : landscape architecture in the light of sound : sonotope design strategies
• Hirst, David: A cognitive framework for the analysis of acousmatic music : analysing Wind chimes by Denis Smalley
• Holmes, Thom: Electronic and experimental music : technology, music and culture
• Lundsten, Ralph: Happy earthday : lustbara kåserier : verbala dumheter och sinnliga exkursioner från Sommarprogram 1981, 1984, 1989 och 2004
• Lundsten, Ralph: En själens vagabond : en personlig levnadshistoria av och om en äventyrare i tid och rum
• Margulies, Jon: Ableton Live 8 power! : the comprehensive guide
• Banzi, Massimo: Getting started with Arduino
• McLean, Priscilla: Hanging off the edge : revelations of a modern troubadour
• Miller, Paul D. (DJ Spooky): Rhythm science
• Neuberger, Susanne (ed.): Nam June Paik : Exposition of music, electronic television : revisited
• Neuhoff, John G. (ed.): Ecological psychoacoustics
• Smallwood, Scott: Toward sound : the practice of phonography, noise and free improvisation in the Eastern US
• Ternhag, Gunnar: Vad är det jag hör? : analys av musikspelningar
• Österling, Fredrik: Komponisterna i Sverige
• Östersjö, Stefan: Shut up ’n’ play! : negotiating the musical work (Doctoral studies and research in fine and performing arts ; 5)

The following books have been taken over from the library of our mother organisation Concerts Sweden:

• Adorno, Theodor W.: Philosophie der neuen Musik
• Bailey, Derek: Improvisation : its nature and practice in music
• Bartók, Béla: Béla Bartók essays
• Bucht, Gunnar ; Lundahl, Per Olof & Wallner, Bo: Facetter : av och om Karl-Birger Blomdahl
• Diagram group, the: Musical instruments of the world : an illustrated encyclopedia
• Dibelius, Ulrich: Ligeti : eine Monographie in Essays
• Geiringer, Karl: Instruments in the history of Western music
• Griffiths, Paul: György Ligeti (The contemporary composers)
• György Ligeti : Gesamtverzeichnis der veröffentlichen Werke : Stand Januar 1989 = complete list of the published works : up to January 1989
• Harvey, Jonathan: The music of Stockhausen : an introduction
• Höjer, Lotta (ed.): Karl-Birger Blomdahl-festival (Konsertnytt Special, november 1990)
• Johnson, Robert Sherlaw: Messiaen
• Kolleritsch, Otto (ed.): György Ligeti : Personalstil, Avantgardismus, Popularität (Studien zur Wertungsforschung ; 19)
• Ligeti, György & Nordwall, Owe: Aventures & Nouvelles aventures : musikalisk-dramatisk handling i fjorton bilder : libretto
• Ligeti, György: Den stora makabern : Ligeti
• Ligeti, György: From sketches and unpublished scores 1938-56 : from the collection of Ove Nordwall (Publications / issued by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music ; 15 [i.e. 16])
• Ligeti, György: György Ligeti in conversation : with Péter Várnai, Josef Häusler, Claude Samuel and himself
• Manning, Peter: Electronic and computer music
• Marcuse, Sibyl: A survey of musical instruments
• Nadel, Myron Howard & Nadel Miller, Constance (ed.): The dance experience : readings in dance appreciation
• Nordwall, Ove: György Ligeti : eine Monographie
• Nordwall, Ove: Ligeti-dokument : brev, skizzer, partitur, kommentarer, om musikteater, om musikalisk form, verklistor
• Nyffeler, Max (ed.): Klaus Huber
• Peyser, Joan: Boulez : composer, conductor, enigma
• Sabbe, Herman: György Ligeti : Studien zur kompositorischen Phänomenologie (Musik-Konzepte ; 53)
• Stacey, Peter F.: Boulez and the modern concept
• Straviniskij, Igor: Musikalisk poetik
• Wagner, Gottfried: Weill und Brecht : das musikalische Zeittheater

Soundscape: support to health

I've previously mentioned two Swedish research initiatives on soundscapes and acoustic ecology, Urban Sound Institute and The Sound Environment Centre at Lund University.

There is also another somewhat similiar research programme, Soundscape: support to health (Ljudlanskap för bättre hälsa), which has an associated website with an introduction to acoustics, measurement and perception of noise, focused on health aspects. The introduction is in Swedish only, except for a course in engineering acoustics. An interesting twist is that the text is available in three versions: for curious people (nyfikna), for users (användare), i.e. architects, civil servants etc., and for specialists.

Öra för ljud i SvD

A post in Swedish about some sound-related articles in the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

SvD har nyligen haft en liten artikelserie om ljud och musik under rubriken Öra för ljud:

1. Med sikte på musikens minsta beståndsdelar - Erik Bergqvist om Gunnar Buchts Quid est tonus?
2. På spaning efter de ljud som flytt - Jesper Olsson om ljudinspelning och minne
3. Upptäcktsfärd bland oönskade surr och klick - Fredrik Stahlénius om ljudtvätt och brus

Det finns mer information och länkar till äldre artiklar i understrecket-bloggen.

EAM in DDM-online

One can find quite a few dissertations on electroacoustic music at Doctoral dissertations in musicology-online. The index is searchable by keyword or classification. It is possible to use * as a wildcard, though only at the end of strings. A search for "electro*" yields 53 items, most of them relevant, while a search for items classified as "71ek*", i.e. twentieth century (7) - historical musicology (1) - electronic music (ek), lists 36 dissertations. ISBN:s are given for published works, and dissertations in progress are listed and asterisked. There are also instructions for submission of your own dissertation or topic.