Reading Resources

🔮work in progress🔮

A partial map of the terrain :

• Experimental Music: Cage And Beyond - Michael Nyman

• Experimental Music Since 1970 - Jennie Gottschalk

• Systems in Art and Music - Michael Parsons

• Systems and Other Minimalism in Britain - Virginia Anderson

• Aspects of British Experimental Music as a Separate Art-Music Culture - Virginia Anderson

• A Scratch Orchestra: Draft Constitution - Cornelius Cardew

• The Scratch Orchestra and Visual Arts - Michael Parsons

• Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music - Christoph Cox & Daniel Warner

• Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts - Douglas Kahn

• The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music - various authors

• The Ashgate Research Companion to Experimental Music - various authors

• The Voice of New Music - Tom Johnson

• Michael Nyman Collected Writings - Michael Nyman & Pwyll ap Siôn

• Word Events Perspectives on Verbal Notation - John Lely & James Saunders

Helpful texts for composers and artists

• Ten Rules for Students and Teachers - Corita Kent

• Composers' Rules of Engagement - Kenneth R. Rumery

• Water in the Lake: Real Events for the Imagination - Kenneth Maue

Resources for autodidact composers

• Open Music Theory

• Modal Counterpoint: Renaissance Style - Peter Schubert

• Baroque Counterpoint - Peter Schubert & Christoph Neidhöfer

• Harmony - Walter Piston

• Analyzing Classical Form - William Caplin

• Twentieth–Century Harmony: Creative Aspects and Practice - Vincent Persichetti

• The Arithmetic of Listening: Tuning Theory and History for the Impractical Musician - Kyle Gann

• Behind Bars the Definitive Guide to Music Notation - Elaine Gould

Texts authored by or concerning, some of my favourite composers

• Satie the Composer - Robert Orledge

• Perfect Lives - Robert Ashley

• Robert Ashley - Kyle Gann

• On the Musical Compositions of Christopher Hobbs - Christopher Hobbs

• The Denizen's Handbook: A Manifesto - Jim Denizen Simm (Jamie Crofts)

Audio Engineering

• Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio - Mike Senior

• Recording Secrets for the Small Studio - Mike Senior

Personal Development

• Meditations – Marcus Aurelius

• The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching - Thich Nhat Hanh

• The Way is Without Flaw - John Garrie Rōshi

• Deep Work - Cal Newport

• The Shallows - Nicholas G. Carr

Investing

• Fail-Safe Investing: Lifelong Financial Security in 30 Minutes - Harry Browne

• The Permanent Portfolio: Harry Browne's Long-Term Investment Strategy - Craig Rowland & J. M. Lawson