ELECTRONIC AND EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC: Foundations of New Music and New Listening; Paperback
(2002) 336 pages, Used
Electronic and Experimental Music is a second edition of a well-known text on the history of electronic music. Holmes' original book, first published in 1985, was a beginner's introduction both to the theories of sound and sound production and to the history of some of the earliest experiments in instrument building and composition. In this new edition, the author thoroughly updates and enlarges the theoretical and historical sections. He also presents new material on using home computers and the many software and Internet resources available.
JRNLS 80S Lee Ranaldo; Paperback
186 pages (2001), Used
Sonic Youth spent most of the 80s sleeping on floors, driving used vans, touring across a neurotic America and the globe beyond. Before they became part of the national bloodstream, they created an underground swell, encouraging adventurous listeners to jack into their matrix of pantonality, feedback, and chiming scree. All the while, Lee Ranaldo was drinking in the landscape, the clubs, the people; recording a journal of this wild ride. Very cool indeed.....
200 LETTERS TO PARIS Paris Welch; Paperback
(2009) 228 pages, Used
Set from 1983 through 1986, 200 Letters to Paris follows an all-American, Italian boy from Maspeth, Queens as he squats his way through England and West Berlin. Having "worked for the mob" making subs and mopping floors in his teens, he knows the value of a buck and becomes a 'capitalist anarchist.' In Brixton, Paris starts a squat and builds the desperate city's first anarchist bar. Eventually growing tired of English accents, being damp and making grubby punkers egg sandwiches for 10 pence, he leaves for West Berlin. Through collected letters from family and friends, Paris faces life's universal hypocrisies with whipping wit, compassion and the charm of a spoiled brat in a leather jacket and pink mohawk. Forward by Stu Spasm of Lubricated Goat.
STOCKHAUSEN ON MUSIC; Paperback
(2000) 220 pages, Used
A collection of essays by Karlheinz Stockhausen on his early life, composing methods, and the structure of his modern music, compiled by Robin Maconie. 'The leading German composer of electronic music presents his theories of composition and performance...Penetrating philosophical and spiritual observations...the book includes a chronological list of Stockhausen's works and a discography.' -Publisher's Weekly
MUERTE!: Death in Mexican Popular Culture (2000); Paperback
Feral House 102 pages, Used
Luxuriously illustrated with scores of rare images and in lurid full color, this is one of the first books in the English language to examine the Mexican tabloid obsession with the dead. The art from the book will be shown in galleries in New York, Baltimore, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
A magnificent investigation into murder, mayhem and massacre within Mexican pop culture and its cultic worship of death. -- Dr. Anil Aggrawal, Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
EVERFRESH: BLACKBOOK: The Studio & Streets: 2004 - 2010
256 PAGES (2010), Used
Everfresh Studio is one of Australia’s most influential street art collectives. Based in Melbourne, Everfresh Studio's members include some of the most respected, innovative, and widely recognized underground artists in Australia: Makatron, Meggs, Phibs, Prism, Reka, Rone, Sync, and Wonderlust. Illustrated with striking and candid photography, this collection provides a rare and exclusive insight into Everfresh Studio’s street art culture. Showcasing the artwork of some of Australia’s best-known street artists, the process is laid out, from initial sketch to finished product. Written by the artists themselves, this account also reveals the tools, materials, and adrenaline-fuelled nature of the most public of art forms—graffiti.
PUNK '77: an Inside Look at the San Francisco Rock 'N' Roll Scene, 1977 by James Stark, Paperback
1999 James Stark 95 pages, Used
PUNK 77 covers the beginnings of the San Francisco Punk Rock scene through the Sex Pistols concert at Winterland in January, 1978, in interviews and photographs by James Stark. James was among the many artists involved in the early punk scene. His photos were published in New York Rocker, Search & Destroy and Slash, among others. His posters for Crime are classics and highly prized collectors items. Contains over 100 photos, including many behind-the-scenes looks at the bands who made things happen: Nuns, Avengers, Crime, Screamers, Negative Trend, Dils, Germs, UXA, etc. Interviews with the bands and people on the scene give intimate, often darkly humorous glimpses of events in a Please Kill Me (Legs McNeil) style. (Incredibly Rare book)
ATLANTA: Hip Hop and the South (2010); Hardcover
Michael Schmelling 224 pages, Hardcover
Since the late 1990s, Atlanta has become a dominant center of hip-hophome to mega-selling artists like OutKast, T-Pain, and T.I., and host to an electric mix of superstars, aspiring young rappers, and inspired fans. In Atlanta, photographer Michael Schmelling documents the artists, the fans, and the musical vitality of a city that is always redefining hip-hop. Featuring more than 160 photos, from up-and-coming rappers to club kids to multiplatinum artists, Atlanta also includes essays on the city's hip hop culture by writer Kelefa Sanneh, interviews with key Atlanta figures like Gucci Mane, Andr 3000, Big Boi, Shawty Lo, Ludacris, and The-Dream, and a download mixtape of unreleased tracks.
USUGROW: Love and Hate from JP (Upper Playground), Hardcover
96 pages, 2007, Hardcover
Love Hate from JP Japanese artist Usugrow creates his own fresh, distinctive takes on classic subjects such as skulls and horror characters with bold lines and meticulous detail inspired by everything from tattoo flash, skateboarding, and gang graffiti to Japanese caligraphy, watercolor painting, and corporate logos, with skillful use of black and white, and a stunningly beautiful, unique, lettering style. Imagine Hokusai raised in the Barrio. Love Hate From JP collects Usugrows paintings and works on paper, as well as personal photographs taken throughout his career.
MA'CLAIM: Finest Photorealistic Graffiti (2006); Paperback
Akut 153 pages, Used
Ma'claim is a German crew known the world over for spraying some of the finest photorealistic graffiti to come out a can. The Ma'Claim crew consists of four people who formed the team in 2001: Akut, Case, Rusk and Tasso. Their signature is their photo realistic graffitis and how their fresh ideas combine with traditional designs. Not many graffiti crews can claim to have worked their way up to the top of a world-wide movement like these guys.....
STREET LOGOS (2004); Paperback
Tristan Manco 128 pages, Used
Graffiti art is constantly changing. Fresh coats of paint and newly pasted posters appear overnight in cities across the world. New artists, new ideas, and new tactics displace faded images in a perpetual process of renewal and metamorphosis. From Los Angeles to Barcelona, Stockholm to Tokyo, Melbourne to Milan, wall spaces are a breeding ground for graphic and typographic forms as artists unleash their daily creations. Current graffiti art is reflective of the world around it. Using new materials and techniques, its innovators are creating a language of forms and images infused with contemporary graphic design and illustration. Fluent in branding and graphic imagery, they have been replacing tags with more personal logos and shifting from typographic to iconographic forms of communication. Street Logos is a worldwide celebration of these new developments in twenty-first-century graffiti, an essential sourcebook for all art and design professionals, and a delight to everyone excited by the vitality of the street.
SCIENCE FICTION POSTER ART (2003); Paperback
192 pages, Used
With its unique ability to bring our wildest fantasies to life, the cinema has done more than any other medium to popularize science fiction worldwide. From Metropolis to Godzilla, and from Invaders from Mars to Star Trek, science fiction films have peopled our universe, and others, with some of the studios’ most amazing creations. Considering the richness of the subject matter, it’s no wonder that generations of the most talented illustrators, painters, art directors, and designers have signed on to produce posters for these films. Their creations not only provide us with a record of how they and their contemporaries saw the future, they also serve as a visual running commentary on all that has happened in graphic design since Lumière invented motion pictures. The images in this book, representing the crème de la crème of science fiction posters from artists around the world, vividly show what has been luring audiences to the movie theaters for decades. Tony Nourmand is co-owner of the Reel Poster Gallery in London and a poster consultant to Christie’s; Graham Marsh is a designer and art director. Together, they have also produced the companion to this volume, Horror Poster Art, as well as collections of 20th-century film posters by decade.
