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LEONARDO MUSIC JOURNAL

Catalog of Current and Back Issues

Leonardo Music Journal is a print journal published annually by the MIT Press.

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LMJ 17: "My Favorite Things: The Joy of the Gizmo"
If, as Marshall McLuhan so famously suggested, the medium is the message, then the gizmo must be the one-liner. From baroque violinists to laptoppers, sound artists have long fetishized the tools of their trade, the mere naming of which can provoke an instant reaction: Shout ìLA-2A,î ìTR-808,î ìJTM45î or ìTube Screamerî in a room full of musicians, and you will notice the eyes brighten, the breath shorten and the anecdotes pour forth. But only to a point: Many a ìsecret weaponî is held close to the chest. LMJ 17 addresses the significance of physical objects--- homemade instruments, effect boxes, pieces of studio gear, ìbentî toys, self-built circuits and so on---in music and sound art in a time of increasing emphasis on software and file exchange. Includes CD: "The Art of the Gremlin: Inventive Musicians, Curious Devices," curated by Sarah Washington. LMJ17 Table of Contents.

LMJ 16: "Noises Off -- Sound Beyond Music"
These days sound is more than just music. Museums, galleries and artists' studios are getting noisier: it's not that there is so much more "Sound Art," but rather that so much more art has sound. Cellphone ringtones generated four billion dollars in sales worldwide in 2004. Incoming email and outgoing popcorn announce themselves with plops and gongs and boops and beeps -- the emerging field of "sonification" addresses this proliferation of all these "earcons" and other representational uses of sound. Sound design is a vital part of Hollywood films and computer games. While CD sales shrink with the proliferation of peer-to-peer file exchange, the creative use of sound is expanding in almost every other part of our lives. Includes CD: "Interpreting the Soundscape," curated by Peter Cusack. LMJ16 Table of Contents.

LMJ 15: "The Word, Voice, Language and Technology"
In the beginning of music there very likely was the Word---whether "hush" (little baby) or "hosanna"---but from the knife that kept the great castrato Farinelli forever boyish to the harmonizer that made Laurie Anderson temporarily mannish, technology has been used to tweak the human voice and to color the stories it tells. With the advent of electronic amplification, radio and recording, a single microphone could convey the lip-brushing intimacy of the whisper and croon well beyond the first row of the concert hall. The evolution of vocal styles cannot be separated from innovations in recording technology such as tape echo, double tracking, electronic reverberation and, most recently, an ever-expanding palette of digital effects. The interplay of the semantic content of a text and the melodicpossibilities of the voice have made "song" the world's most common musical form, and technology-driven vocal innovations have often triggered the emergence of new musical genres. Between the much touted "abstractness" and "universality" of music and the seductive specificity of words there exists a poignant and powerful lacuna. In LMJ15, authors and composers discuss the sound and ideas behind their words. Includes CD: "Vox ex Machina," curated by Jaap Blonk. LMJ15 Table of Contents.

LMJ 14: "Composers inside Electronics: Music after David Tudor"
Inspired by David Tudor and others, the experimental music community in the 1970s adopted a new working method based on seat-of-the-pants electronic engineering. The circuit -- whether homemade, self-hacked or store-bought but scrutinized to death -- became the score. A generation later, aspects of the Tudor aesthetic have spread well beyond the avant-garde: hip-hop, house and other forms of dance music and electronica share a similar obsession with the quirks intrinsic to specific pieces of audio gear. In this special volume of Leonardo Music Journal, authors consider all aspects of the work of David Tudor, the influence of Tudor's ideas on their own work and/or the role of technological idiosyncrasies in their composition, performance or production. Includes CD: "David Tudor: Live Electronic Music," curated by Ron Kuivila. LMJ14 Table of Contents.

LMJ 13: "Groove, Pit and Wave: Recording, Transmission and Music"
Sound is encoded in grooves on vinyl, particles on tape and pits in plastic; it travels as acoustic pressure, electromagnetic waves and pulses of light. The rise of the DJ in the last two decades has signaled the arrival of the medium as the instrument -- the crowning achievement of a generation for whom tapping the remote control is as instinctive as tapping two sticks together. Turntables, CD players, radios, tape recorders (and their digital emulations) are played, not merely heard; scratching, groove noise, CD glitches, tape hiss and radio interference are the sound of music, not sound effects. John Cage's 1960 "Cartridge Music" has yet to enter the charts, but its sounds are growing more familiar. In LMJ13 authors contribute their thoughts on the role of recording and/or transmission in the creation, performance and distribution of music: Includes CD: "Splitting Bits, Closing Loops: Recording, Transmission and Music," curated by Philip Sherburne. LMJ13 Table of Contents.

LMJ 12: "Pleasure"
From its naughty lyric content to the pounding physicality of its sound, Pop music is unabashedly driven by the pleasure principle. "Serious" music, however, is usually perceived as more refined, genteel, or to put it another way, repressed. And the avant-garde has traditionally found itself in the peculiar position of accompanying bohemian, hedonistic lifestyles with defiantly itchy and uncomfortable music. But are pleasure and thoughtful invention necessarily at odds? Can there be no "bump and mind"? ... LMJ 12 includes articles and personal reflections on the role of pleasure in all genres of music. Includes CD: "From Gdansk till Dawn: Contemporary Experimental Music from Eastern Europe," curated by Christian Scheib and Susanna Niedermayr. LMJ12 Table of Contents.

LMJ 11: "Not Necessarily 'English Music': Britain's Second 'Golden Age'"
After the first installment of Cool Britannia beguiled the 1960s with its peculiar conflation of Pop, Art, Fashion and Politics, musical experimentation flourished in the U.K. Styles of improvisation, minimalism, electronic music, performance art, political music and "amateur" music grew out of British art schools, universities and urban villages; styles neither as self-important as those of Europe nor as blithely technocratic as those of North America -- a peculiarly "English Music" (and Scottish and Welsh). Includes Two-CD Set: "Not Necessarily 'English Music,'" curated by David Toop. LMJ11 Table of Contents.

LMJ 10: "Southern Cones: Music out of Africa and South America"
Contributors include: Coriún Aharonián, Lucio Edilberto Cuellar Camargo, Carlos Palombini, Daniel Velasco, O'dyke Nzewi, George Lewis, Lukas Ligeti, Artemis Moroni, Jônatas Manzolli, Fernando Von Zuben and Ricardo Gudwin, Damián Keller, Neil McLachlan. Plus notes by CD Contributors. Includes CD: "Southern Cones: Music out of Africa and South America," curated by Jürgen Bräuninger. LMJ10 Table of Contents.

LMJ 9: "Power and Responsibility: Politics, Identity and Technology in Music"
Contributors include: Nicolas Collins, Krystyna Bobrowski, Sergi Jordá. William Duckworth, Mark Trayle, Chris Brown, Justin Bennett, Lowell Cross, Daniel Goode, Fred Ho, Rajmil Fischman, David Dunn, René van Peer, William Osborne, Frederic Rzewski, David Cope, Roger Alsop, Ann Warde, Dante Tanzi, Greg Schiemer, Suguru Goto, Peter Manning, David Ryan, Sasan Rahmatian, John Bischoff, Guy van Belle. Plus notes by CD Contributors. Includes CD: "Power and Responsibility: Converted to Streaming Between Machines," curated by Guy van Belle. LMJ9 Table of Contents.

LMJ 8: "Ghosts and Monsters: Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music"
Contributors include: Nicolas Collins, Cornelius Cardew, Alvin Lucier, Ron Kuivila, David Behrman, Richard Barrett, Jonathan Impett, Nicolas Collins, David Gamper, Pauline Oliveros, Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Robert M. Poss, Ricardo Arias, Matthias Osterwold, Christian von Borries, John Cage, Andrew Culver, John Tilbury. Plus notes by CD Contributors. Includes CD: "Ghosts and Monsters: Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music," curated by Matthias Osterwold. LMJ8 Table of Contents.

LMJ 7
Contributors include: Nicolas Collins, Flo Menezes, Bill Thibault, Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Kevin Holm-Hudson, Bruno Degazio, David Rosenboom, Sean Cubitt, Eduardo Reck Miranda, Larry Polansky, Nick Didkovsky, Gordon Monro, Plus notes by CD Contributors. Includes CD: "Cocks Crow, Dogs Bark: New Compositional Intentions," curated by Larry Polansky. LMJ7 Table of Contents.

LMJ 6
Contributors include: Gerald Hartnett, Lydia Ayers, Neil Leonard II, Charles Ames, Stephen Brooks, Brian J. Ross, Axel Mulder, Joel Chadabe, Bulat Galeyev, Leon Theremin, Lydia Kavina, Natalia Nesturkh, Douglas Kahn, Paul Carter, Rainer Linz, Percy Aldredge Grainger. Plus notes by CD Contributors. Includes CD: "The Lyre's Island: Some Australian Music, Sound Art and Design," curated by Douglas Kahn. LMJ6 Table of Contents.

LMJ 5
Contributors include: Douglas Kahn, Brigitte Burgmer, David A. Jaffe, Pauline Oliveros, Robert HP Platz, Diane Thome, Charles Ames, Libor Zajicek, Pavel B. Ivanov, Andra McCartney, Marc Battier. Plus notes by CD Contributors. Includes CD: "Innovation in Contemporary Japanese Composition," curated by Marc Battier with Mamoru Fujieda, Hinoharu Matsumoto and Kazuo Uehara. LMJ5 Table of Contents.

LMJ 4
Contributors include: Alvin Curran, Frances Dyson, Michaðl Levinas, Jonathan Berger, Charles Nichols, Stephanie Mason, Michael Saffle, Kathryn Vaughn, Judith Becker, Wendy Boettcher, Sabrina Hyn, Gordon Shaw, Edward Carterette, Roger Kendall, Cornelia Fales, Stephen McAdams, James Kippen, Bernard Bel, Frédéric Voisin, Ricardo Del Farra. Plus notes by CD Contributors. Includes CD: "Música Electroacústica de Compositores Latinoamericanos," curated by Ricardo Dal Farra. LMJ4 Table of Contents.

LMJ 3
Contributors include: Gayle Young, Kristi A. Allik, Robert C.F. Mulder, Xavier Chabot, Helen Hall, Richard M Povall, Charles Ames, Giuseppe G. Englert, Jack Ox, Gregory Young, Jerry Bancroft, Mark Sanderson, Joe Catalano, Pauline Oliveros, Larry Wendt. Plus notes by CD Contributors. Includes CD: "Vocal Neighborhoods: A Walk through the Post-Sound-Poetry Landscape," curated by Larry Wendt. LMJ3 Table of Contents.

LMJ 2
Contributors include: Marc Battier, Nick Didkovsky, Brian Evans, Barton McLean, Stephen Travis Pope, Godfried-Willem Raes, Barry Truax, Rodney Waschka II, Mark Rais, Peeter Vähi, Charles Ames, Andrew Gerzso, Leonardo C. Manzara, Ian H. Witten, Mark James, Joan Truckenbrod, Jody Diamond. Plus notes by CD Contributors. Includes CD: "Interaction: New Music for Gamelan," curated by Jody Diamond. LMJ2 Table of Contents.

LMJ 1
Contributors include: Larry Polansky, Warren Burt, Bart Hopkin, I Wayan Sadra, Jody Diamond, Sara Garden Armstrong, Peter Beyls, John Bischoff, Nicolas Collins, Daniel Goode, Mark Trayle, Charles Ames, Martin Bartlett, Elliot Mazer, K. Atchley, Ed Osborn. Plus notes by CD Contributors. Includes CD: "Anthology of Music for the 21st Century,"15 tracks selected by jury. LMJ1 Table of Contents.