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Thomas Patteson is a musicologist, writer, and musician whose work explores music technology, electronic music, improvisation, and the history of sound.
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Thomas Patteson is a musicologist, writer, curator, and musician based in Philadelphia. He is a lecturer in music at the [https://music.sas.upenn.edu/people/thomas-patteson University of Pennsylvania], where he teaches courses on music, sound, and consciousness. His research focuses on music technology, electronic music, improvisation, and the cultural history of sound. He is the author of [https://www.ucpress.edu/books/instruments-for-new-music/paper ''<u>Instruments for New Music</u>''] and co-author of [https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo266710098.html ''<u>The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments</u>'']. He has received support from the Fulbright Program, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Musicological Society. Find him online at [http://www.thomaspatteson.com <u>thomaspatteson.com</u>].
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Imagined instruments reveal how we shape music—and how music shapes us. ''The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments'' is a guided tour through centuries of instruments that never existed. From ancient myths to futuristic media, these imagined devices appear in literature, theory, video games, and art, at times echoing real instruments, other times pushing far beyond the bounds of technology. This book presents a wide-ranging collection of such creations, showing how they reflect changing ideas about sound, invention, and the limits of the possible. At once a cultural history and a study of creative thought, it uncovers unexpected links between music, design, and the human urge to make meaning through sound. These are not just fictional artifacts; they are windows into what music might mean, even when it cannot be played.
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University of California Press
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit [http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/luminos.5 www.luminosoa.org] to learn more. Player pianos, radio-electric circuits, gramophone records, and optical sound film—these were the cutting-edge acoustic technologies of the early twentieth century, and for many musicians and artists of the time, these devices were also the implements of a musical revolution. ''Instruments for New Music'' traces a diffuse network of cultural agents who shared the belief that a truly modern music could be attained only through a radical challenge to the technological foundations of the art. Centered in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s, the movement to create new instruments encompassed a broad spectrum of experiments, from the exploration of microtonal tunings and exotic tone colors to the ability to compose directly for automatic musical machines. This movement comprised composers, inventors, and visual artists, including Paul Hindemith, Ernst Toch, Jörg Mager, Friedrich Trautwein, László Moholy-Nagy, Walter Ruttmann, and Oskar Fischinger. Patteson’s fascinating study combines an artifact-oriented history of new music in the early twentieth century with an astute revisiting of still-relevant debates about the relationship between technology and the arts.
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