{"id":733,"date":"2022-05-25T15:22:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T15:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/?p=733"},"modified":"2022-05-25T15:22:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T15:22:10","slug":"more-electronic-music-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/more-electronic-music-research\/","title":{"rendered":"More (electronic) music research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/electronic-music-CDs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"908\" src=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/electronic-music-CDs-1024x908.jpg\" alt=\"Electronic music CDs\" class=\"wp-image-731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/electronic-music-CDs-1024x908.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/electronic-music-CDs-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/electronic-music-CDs-768x681.jpg 768w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/electronic-music-CDs-1536x1362.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/electronic-music-CDs.jpg 1896w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple of years ago I had fun <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/science-fiction-music\/\" target=\"_blank\">researching<\/a> my book on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/out-now-the-science-of-sci-fi-music\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Science of Sci-Fi Music<\/a>. Now I\u2019m working on another music-related writing project \u2013 and having yet more fun in the process. This one isn\u2019t solely about electronic music, but that\u2019s a large part of it, as you can see from the research material illustrated above. Most of the items depicted are obviously electronic music, but in a few cases the connection is more subtle. For example, the Xenakis CD consists purely of string quartets, although the first (and most famous) of them was composed with the aid of a computer \u2013 all the way back in 1962. Five years later, the Doors <em>Strange Days<\/em> album featured one of the first uses of a synthesizer in rock music. And the last three items in the bottom row, while not obviously \u201celectronic music\u201d, use so much technology in their production that they would have been inconceivable without it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Incidentally, I don\u2019t care that CDs have plummeted out of fashion with everyone else \u2013 I still enjoy having a physical trophy that I can put on a shelf (it\u2019s the same with books and DVDs \u2013 my house is full of them). For info, the CDs illustrated here (about 4% of my entire collection) are: Edgard Varese Complete Works, Iannis Xenakis String Quartets, Karlheinz Stockhausen <em>Kontakte<\/em>, Milton Babbitt <em>Philomel,<\/em> The Doors <em>Strange Days<\/em>, Kraftwerk <em>Autobahn<\/em>, Isao Tomita <em>Snowflakes Are Dancing<\/em>, Brian Eno <em>Discreet Music<\/em>, The Art of Noise <em>Who\u2019s Afraid Of&#8230;<\/em>, Pet Shop Boys <em>Behaviour<\/em>, The Prodigy <em>Experience<\/em>, William Orbit <em>Pieces in a Modern Style<\/em>, Bjork <em>Homogenic<\/em>, Kanye West <em>My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantas<\/em>y, Jacob Collier <em>Djesse<\/em> volume 3, Grimes <em>Miss Anthropocene<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago I had fun researching my book on The Science of Sci-Fi Music. Now I\u2019m working on another music-related writing project \u2013 and having yet more fun in the process. This one isn\u2019t solely about electronic music, but that\u2019s a large part of it, as you can see from the research &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/more-electronic-music-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More (electronic) music research&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,39,33],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-music-theory","tag-popular-science","tag-writing-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}