New Music

Books on new music, contemporary composition, sound theory, music aesthetics, and perspectives from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Book Cover: Metamorphosis and Eruption

Metamorphose und Eruption

Music as a Natural Process: An Expressive Soundscape Between Metamorphosis, Eruption, and Inner Theatricality.

36,00 

Book Cover: Composing Between Serialism, Aleatoric Music, and Improvisation

Komponieren zwischen Reihe, Aleatorik und Improvisation

Franco Evangelisti (1926–80) was an uncomfortable critic of the music industry and fought uncompromisingly for new music in Italy.

49,00 

Book Cover: At the Edges of Reason

An den Rändern des Maßes

A multi-layered portrait of composer Gerald Eckert, interweaving music, thought, visual art, and conversation into a dense network.

34,80 

Book cover: Conversations with Rohan de Saram

Conversations with Rohan de Saram

A conversation with Rohan de Saram about music, collaboration, and the mind the sound.

29,00 

Book Cover: The Magic of Sound

Die Magie des Klangs

Poems, prose, essays, conversations, and letters by a sound poet—a collection that bridges aesthetic reflection and biographical notes.

60,00 

Book Cover: Cage & Consequences

Cage & Consequences

Cage's influence across art and theory - essays, artist texts and conversations.  

29,00 

Book cover: *Die MISSA* (1984–87) by Dieter Schnebel

Die MISSA (1984–87) von Dieter Schnebel

This publication explores the aesthetic tension between musical progress and a return to sacred tradition, from Machaut’s Mass to Stockhausen’s *Gesang der Jünglinge*.

22,00 

Book cover: Film Sound

Filmgeräusch

A book not only for film specialists, but for anyone who is moved by noises, sounds, and music.

29,00 

Book Cover: Musical Sense

Musikalischer Sinn

A portrait of composer Boris Yoffe, whose distinctive style bridges Russian, Jewish, and German musical traditions.

19,80 

Book Cover: Curiosity Is Everything

Neugier ist alles

The volume offers a comprehensive insight into Detlev Glanert's music theater—from Joseph Süß to Solaris —and reflects on his multifaceted work.

29,00 

Book cover: Musical Material Today

Musical Material Today

New music after postmodernism: 12 composers explore the expanded material and its meanings.

24,00 

Book Cover: The Music of Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf

Die Musik von Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf

A multi-voiced anthology on the compositional work of Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf—with contributions from theorists, performers, and fellow composers.

34,80 

Book Cover: Silence and Sound, Shadow and Light

Stille und Klang, Schatten und Licht

Conversations with Toshio Hosokawa about sound, tradition, and the avant-garde.

29,00 

Book Cover: Interactions

Wechselwirkungen

The book explores the diverse interactions between music and film, from silent films to music videos.

19,00 

Book Cover: Everyday Drama

Das alltägliche Drama

Luigi Nono's vocal compositions with tape La fabbrica illuminata and A floresta é jovem e cheja de vida in the context of the unfinished music theater projects.

59,00 

Book cover: Alexander Goehr

Alexander Goehr

A portrait of composer Alexander Goehr - between tradition and avant-garde.

24,00 

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