Undercurrents: The Hidden Wiring of Modern Music

Contents

• Acknowledgements;
• Introduction
• Part I : Electrification
• 1. Recording Angels, by Erik Davis
• 2. On the MIC, by Ian Penman
• 3. The Jerrybuilt Future, by Christopher Cox
• 4. Worship the Glitch, by Rob Young
• Part II : Occultism
• 5. The Eternal Drone, by Marcus Boon
• 6. Slapping Pythagoras, by Rob Young
• 7. The Ragged Trousered Anthologists, by Peter Shapiro and Philip Smith
• 8. The Solar Myth Approach, by Ken Hollings
• Part III : Mechanism
• 9. Humans, Are They Really Necessary?, by David Toop
• 10. Automating the Beat, by Peter Shapiro
• 11. The Autobahn Goes on Forever, by Biba Kopf
• 12. Rock Concrete, by Edwin Pouncey
• 13. Deck Wreckers, by Peter Shapiro
• Part IV : Freedom
• 14. Destroy All Music, by Mark Sinker
• 15. The Limits of Language, by Julian Cowley
• 16. The Music of Chance, by Andy Hamilton
• 17. Smiling Faces Sometimes, by Peter Shapiro
• 18. Frames of Freedom, by David Toop
• 19. Generation Ecstasy, by Tom Roe