Beautiful monograph Installation views over the course of 12 months More than 200 brilliant color photographs Beautiful monograph Installation views over the course of 12 months More than 200 brilliant color photographs
Technology does not stand apart from music, influencing it from the outside-it is a part of music, integral to every aspect of musical activity and musical life. "Music technology" tends to evoke images of modernity, but all tools used to create, store, reproduce, and transmit music-new or old, acoustic or electronic-are technologies worthy of investigation. This Very Short Introduction ranges across centuries and continents, revealssurprising connections-between eighteenth century French android musicians and twenty-first century Japanese singing holograms or Baroque pipe organs and music video game controllers. Humans are, and have always been, creatures of technology and of music. If we want to understand how music is made and experienced, Mark Katzargues, we must investigate its relationship-ancient and inextricable-with technology.
Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the 'best-loved' poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century. This book explores the published poems at the core of her remarkable canon of verse, along with her letters and other writings, and draws out key themes of the environment, balance, and ideas of love and loss.
The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What they discovered, however, would change the way we think about ourselves.
A comprehensive brain training programme with over 80 puzzles, by million-copy bestselling author Dr Gareth Moore and UCam Memory Laboratory expert, Helena M. Gellersen.
An authoritative training regime for anyone wanting to get to grips with their brain and have fun whilst improving its power. Put your brain through its paces with over 80 puzzles with bestselling author Gareth Moore and UCam Memory Lab expert, Helena M. Gellersen.