[spectre] Experimental Music: Audio Explorations in Australia

[snagglepussy]

I'm very pleased to announce the publication of Experimental Music:  
Audio Explorations in Australia

Written by artists, producers and participants in alternative music- 
making, and including a companion CD, Experimental Music explores the  
development of forms, ideas and scenes in Australia from the 1970s to  
the present. It brings together a wide range of musical  
experimentation, from post-punk, noise, appropriation, electronic  
dance and listening music, to free improv, computer process music,  
experimental radio, instrument building and audiovisual fusions --  
practices that have formed an integral part of Australian creative  
culture. Experimental Music illustrates how these forms have  
influenced each other to create a fertile and diverse culture, and  
highlights why it is vital to question, experiment and break the rules.

CONTRIBUTORS: Julian Knowles • Ian Andrews with John Blades • Cat  
Hope • Shannon O'Neill • Bo Daley • Alistair Riddell • Jim Denley •  
Virginia Madsen • Sean Bridgeman • Gail Priest with Sebastian Chan

edited by Gail Priest

Books can be ordered from UNSWPress http://www.unswpress.com.au/isbn/ 
9781921410079.htm

To accompany the book, there is also a website with additional  
information about experimental music and sound in Australia including  
a resource list of events, organisations, and publications, an artist  
directory and a calendar.

http://www.experimentalmusicaustralia.net

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For review copies and interviews please contact Uthpala Gunethilake

ph:  61 2 9664 0902 fax: 61 2 9664 5420 email: uthpala.g at unsw.edu.au

9781921410079, UNSW Press, December 2008, 192pp, PB/CD , AU$29.95