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Leonardo Music Journal 13 with CD

"GROOVE, PIT AND WAVE"

The vast majority of music we hear arrives not directly from a shimmying violin string or an undulating column of air, but from grooves on vinyl, particles on tape, pits in plastic, electromagnetic waves and pulses of light. Long before McLuhan, composers were already aware of the influence of recording and transmission on their music.

Despite the Comet Kahoutek--like anticlimax of Y2K, the rollover of the millennial odometer was accompanied by dramatic reports of one apparently earthshaking transformation of our culture. The salient fact byte, repeated in mainstream and music presses, web sites and even the odd Ph.D. dissertation, was that in 1999 more turntables were sold than guitars. The news was all the more notable as it came at a time when the vinyl LP had been almost universally supplanted by the CD as a format for the distribution and consumption of music. These turntables were not bought in order to listen to records, but to perform records. The medium is no longer the message---it has become the instrument. The pervasive chatter about the inversion of the guitar/turntable ratio suggested that the time had come to devote an issue of Leonardo Music Journal to the musical implications of grooves, pits and waves.

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LMJ13 Table of Contents

LMJ 13 includes articles by: Peter Manning, David First, Nick Collins, Sérgio Freire, Doug Kahn, Yasunao Tone, Guy-Marc Hinant, Caleb Stuart and Tobias C. van Veen.

Introduction to LMJ13 by Nicolas Collins

Includes compact disc:

Splitting Bits, Closing Loops: Sound on Sound
curated by Philip Sherburne

CD Table of Contents

LMJ 13 includes an audio CD curated by Philip Sherburne: Splitting Bits, Closing Loops: Sound on Sound. The CD features works by AGF, M. Behrens, Alejandra & Aeron, DAT Politics, Francisco López, Institut fuer Feinmotorik, Steve Roden, Stephen Vitiello, Scanner, Janek Schaefer and Stephan Mathieu.

Introduction to LMJ13 CD by Philip Sherburne

LMJ13 CD Contributor Notes

LEONARDO MUSIC JOURNAL WITH CD

The LMJ series is devoted to aesthetic and technical issues in contemporary music and the sonic arts. Currently under the editorship of Nicolas Collins, each thematic issue features artists/writers from around the world, representing a wide range of stylistic viewpoints. Each volume includes the latest offering from the LMJ CD series---an exciting sampling of curious and unusual, but eminently listenable, music. Independently curated and annotated by experts and aficionados, these CDs offer a feast for the ear and mind alike.

More info: http://leonardo.info/lmj