The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music
Collins, Nick (University of Sussex) / d'Escrivan, Julio (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge)
Musicians are always quick to adopt and explore new technologies. The fast-paced changes wrought by electrification, from the microphone via the analogue synthesiser to the laptop computer, have led to a wide diversity of new musical styles and techniques. Electronic music has grown to a broad field of investigation, taking in historical movements like musique concrète and elecktronische musik, and contemporary trends such as electronic dance ...
