{"product_id":"9780226847719-sound-of-thinking","title":"The Sound of Thinking","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Listener's Companion to Conceptual Music\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lively compendium of musical practices and compositions that upend notions of creativity and expressivity while diversifying our sense of the musical canon.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e An artist draws two octaves of pitches randomly from a hat, just enough to set each syllable of the dictionary definition of \u003ci\u003eimprimer\u003c\/i\u003e (to score, to print). Trawling the internet for cute videos of cats “playing” piano, an artist splices together a complete, note-perfect performance of Arnold Schoenberg’s \u003ci\u003eOpus 11\u003c\/i\u003e. Half a century after the release of Miles Davis’s album \u003ci\u003eKind of Blue\u003c\/i\u003e, a jazz quintet spends months of focused practice to reproduce the original exactly. These performances share a common denominator: absolute fidelity to the outcome of a system. From Marcel Duchamp to Yoko Ono, Steve Reich to Sun Ra, \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e brings together a diverse array of musical or sonic works that are algorithmic, automatic, permutational, procedural, or otherwise structured in contrast to the creative expressivity typically associated with artistic production.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In twenty-six short essays, each keyed to a term that begins with a different letter of the alphabet, Dworkin discusses work composed or performed according to a predetermined rule, transforming artistic creation into a system running its course. The pieces detailed here, drawn from more than a century of musical experimentation, offer a fresh perspective on the history of innovative music by decoupling music from expression and by shunting creativity from the level of organizing sounds to the level of devising a system that can do the organizing. Not only does this book spotlight the critical role of music in twentieth-century conceptual art, but it also identifies previously overlooked links among diverse artists and movements.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57605589729654,"sku":"9780226847719","price":25.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_40626009.jpg?v=1775702976","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780226847719-sound-of-thinking","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}