New Music

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

Die Avantgarde war ein Irrtum

A life spent between musical avant-garde, political exile, and biting satire.

9,00 €

Music Autopsies

The book explores music’s critical potential to interrogate history, ideology, and power. Benjamin Dwyer offers eclectic insights into composers, improvisation, and music’s broader cultural reach.

28,00 €

Ins Unbekannte

Analysis of Polyphonie X, Boulez's early, legendary serial experiment.

46,00 €

Now! Writings 1982–2021

A pivotal collection of Peter Ablinger’s writings (1982–2021), exploring listening, language, and the nature of sound.

38,00 €

Alvin Lucier’s Reflexive Experimental Aesthetics

Making the normally inaudible audible—that is the groundbreaking work of Alvin Lucier.

36,00 €

Cosmic Dreamscapes

This volume explores the enigmatic work of Charles Ives—situated between American utopianism and the European compositional tradition.

9,50 €

Bernd Alois Zimmermann

The contributions gathered here show that Zimmermann's work has lost none of its relevance in an increasingly media-driven world.

34,00 €

Sound Studies and Sonic Arts Reader

Sound Studies and Sonic Arts is a postgraduate program at Berlin University of the Arts.

29,00 €

Musikalische Heimatkonstruktionen

The study shows how music shapes the concept of 'home' and cultural identity. Various aesthetic approaches are analyzed based on works by Heuckes and Neuwirth.

9,00 €

Hörorte / Klangräume

With this dissertation, Bernhard Gál expands the map of sound art.

49,00 €

KiSS

Transdisciplinary perspectives on spatial sound and sound space from the KiSS – Kinetics in Sound & Space research project.

26,00 €

Exhibiting SoundArt

Sound is examined as a multifaceted artistic and cultural medium, with a focus on its meanings, contexts, and the challenges of exhibiting sound art.

29,80 €

Alvin Luciers reflexive Experimentalästhetik

Making the usually inaudible audible—that is the pioneering work of Alvin Lucier.

39,00 €

Wie erscheint das Klingen?

The study expands Kant's theory of space to include an auditory form of a priori intuition – with a focus on music and ZERO art.

59,00 €

Musik über Stimmen

The publication focuses on singers Cathy Berberian and Carla Henius, performers associated with the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music.

49,00 €

Lücken im Ablauf

Reflections on the unpredictable in musical art since Mozart.

9,00 €