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    The Book of Music and Nature: An Anthology of Sounds, Words, Thoughts

    The Book of Music and Nature: An Anthology of Sounds, Words, Thoughts

    by David Rothenberg (Editor), Marta Ulvaeus (Editor)


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    (2nd edition, includes audio web links)
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    David Rothenberg is a composer and associate professor of philosophy at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. In 1996, he founded Terra Nova: Nature and Culture, a literary and artistic quarterly that looks at the cultural possibilities of environmentalism. Marta Ulvaeus received a PhD from NYU in performance studies. She was assistant editor of TDR (The Drama Review) for three years before becoming associate editor of Terra Nova.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction: Does Nature Understand Music?
    I. Roots of Listening
    Hazrat Inyat Khan, The Music of the Spheres
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Primal Sound
    John Cage, Happy New Ears
    John Cage, Diary: Emma Lake Music Workshop 1965
    Tim Hodgkinson, An Interview with Peirce Schaeffer
    Evan Eisenberg, Deus ex Machina
    . Murray Schafer, Music and the Soundscape
    Tsai Chih Chung, The Music of the Earth
    II. Wild Echoes
    Rafi Zabor, From The Bear Comes Home
    Steve Lacy, Sax Can Moo…
    Russell Sherman, from Piano Pieces
    Jaron Lanier, Music, Nature, and Computers: A Showdown
    David Dunn, Nature, Sound Art, and the Scared
    David James Duncan, My one Conversation With Collin Walcott
    Michael Ondaatje, from Coming through Slaughter
    III. The Landscape of Sound
    Steve Erickson, from Rubicon Beach
    Claude Schryer, The Sharawadji Effect
    Pauline Oliveros, Sonic Images
    Pauline Oliveros, The Poetics of Environmental Sound
    Brian Eno, Ambient Music
    Hildegard Westerkamp, Speaking from Inside the Soundscape
    Douglas Quin, Toothwalkers
    Francisco Lopez, Blind Listening
    David Toop, from Exotica
    Robert Schneider, from Brother of Sleep
    IV. Many Natures, Many Cultures
    John Luther Adams, The Place Where You Go to Listen
    Toru Takemitsu, Nature and Music
    Steven Feld, Lift-Up-Over Sounding
    Eric Salzman, Sweet Singer of the Pine Barrens
    Bernie Krause, Where the Sounds Live
    Junichiro Tanizaki, from “A Portrait of Shunkin”
    V. The Disc of Music and Nature (web link)
    Contributors
    Permissions
    Index

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    "The Book of Music and Nature cheerfully debunks the old 'music is the universal language' cliche; pays homage to masters like John Cage, Brian Eno and Toru Takemitsu; detours for a koan-like story by David James Duncan and a tall tale from David Toop; and, finally, acknowledges the written word's ultimate limitations in the face of music with an illuminating CD. The Book of Music and Nature is an impressive work: important, provocative and comprehensive."

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    This innovative book, assembled by the editors of the renowned periodical Terra Nova, is the first anthology published on the subject of music and nature. Lush and evocative, yoking together the simplicities and complexities of the world of natural sound and the music inspired by it, this collection includes essays, illustrations, and plenty of sounds and music. The Book of Music and Nature celebrates our relationship with natural soundscapes while posing stimulating questions about that very relationship. The book ranges widely, with the interplay of the texts and sounds creating a conversation that readers from all walks of life will find provocative and accessible.

    The anthology includes classic texts on music and nature by 20th century masters including John Cage, Hazrat Inrayat Khan, Pierre Schaeffer, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Toru Takemitsu. Innovative essays by Brian Eno, Pauline Oliveros, David Toop, Hildegard Westerkamp and Evan Eisenberg also appear. Interspersed throughout are short fictional excerpts by authors Rafi Zabor, Alejo Carpentier, and Junichiro Tanazaki.

    The audio material for the book, available online at http://www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/musicandnaturecd/, includes fifteen tracks of music made out of, or reflective of, natural sounds, ranging from Babenzele Pygmy music to Australian butcherbirds, and from Pauline Oliveros to Brian Eno.

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