Sonic Writing traces the material and symbolic conditions of composition and performance in contemporary musical media through three interconnected strands of inscription: 1) how the design of musical instruments and software systems encapsulates theory and thereby becomes a form of sonic writing, 2) how diverse systems of musical notation have evolved in alignment with new instruments, performance contexts and artistic ideologies, and 3) the genealogy of phonographic techniques, ranging from etching waves onto disks to machine listening, and how these have affected musical notation and interpretation.
ISBN: 978-1-5013-1386-8
