After a long and involved process, The Routledge Handbook to Rethinking the History of Technology-Based Music is finally here:
As all edited books, this production has been a team effort, and the book is also an outcome of my Leverhulme-funded professorship at University of Huddersfield. Monty Adkins and I have co-edited the volume, and believe that it will be a solid contribution to the growing scholarship on the new technology-based practices.
I am very pleased by finally being able to publish a double CD with electronic works by Sigurd Berge, one of the four most important pioneers in electronic music in Norway. With this CD the early history has been properly documented, and similar to the CDs I have produced for Arne Nordheim (Solitaire, Bolt BRES11) and Kåre Kolberg (Attitudes, Bolt BRES14), this CD is also accompanied by a proper essay. (The fourth pioneer Bjørn Fongaard’s electronic works have been released by Prisma Records.)
The book from Arts Council Norway about creative practices in music has been published following an extensive production process, and Ulf Holbrook and I have a chapter. The book is freely available as a pdf here, and our chapter spans pages 345-376, and you can find it here. NB: In Norwegian only.
Niklas Adam and I have provided technical support for the performance of “The Chosen Ones” with Trond Reinholdtsen and The Norwegian Opra. The performance was premiered by “The Followers of Ø,” in Sweden on 15. August, and then during the Ultima festival in Oslo on 13 September.
It is always a joy to come across something one does not know enough about, and I have recent.ly written two book reviews for Organised Sound. Jennifer Iverson’s book discusses the post-WWII landscape especially in electronic music, and Leigh Landy’s book is a music appreciation and listening guide for many types of technology-based music. The review of Iverson’s bok is here, and the review of Landy’s book is here.