First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Defines and illustrates the nature of musical sound, with particular application to twentieth-century composition.

This book introduces a subject that will be new to many: sonic arts. The application of sound to other media (such as film or video) is well known and the idea

Written by an active composer, performer and educator, Sonic Art: An Introduction to Electroacoustic Music Composition provides a clear and informative introduc

An ear-opening reassessment of sonic art from World War II to the present Marcel Duchamp famously championed a "non-retinal" visual art, rejecting judgments of