What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and which to make great art? Many would point to 'imagination' and 'creativity' in the second case but not the first. This book challenges the assumption that doing science is in any sense less creative than art, music or fictional writing and poetry, and treads a historical and contemporary path through common territories of the creative process. The methodological process called the 'scientific method' tells us how to test ideas when we have had them, but not how to arrive at hypotheses in the first place. Hearing the stories that scientists and artists tell about their projects reveals commonalities: the desire for a goal, the experience of frustration and failure, the incubation of the problem, moments of sudden insight, and the experience of the beautiful or sublime.
Selected themes weave the practice of science and art together: visual thinking and metaphor, the transcendence of music and mathematics, the contemporary rise of the English novel and experimental science, and the role of aesthetics and desire in the creative process. Artists and scientists make salient comparisons: Defoe and Boyle; Emmerson and Humboldt, Monet and Einstein, Schumann and Hadamard. The book draws on medieval philosophy at many points as the product of the last age that spent time in inner contemplation of the mystery of how something is mentally brought out from nothing. Taking the phenomenon of the rainbow as an example, the principles of creativity within constraint point to the scientific imagination as a parallel of poetry.

Lecture 1 - Musical Phonology
Lecture 2 - Musical Syntax
Lecture 3 - Musical Semantics
Lecture 4 - The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity
Lecture 5 - The Twentieth Century Crisis
Lecture 6 - The Poetry of Earth

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is the ultimate critical guide to history's greatest music. You'll find a mouthwatering choice of listening here: from Miles Davis's jazz landmark Kind of Blue (1959) to David Bowie's tragic final release Blackstar (2016), alongside groundbreaking releases by contemporary artists.
Explore musical history from the symphonic pop of The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds to the gargantuan grunge of Nirvana's Nevermind. As well as the acknowledged milestones without which no collection is complete, you'll discover many unexpected treats, such as Einsturzende Neubauten's power tool-enhanced soundscapes and Aphex Twin's sonic troublemaking.
1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die pays homage to the forces that have shaped rock and pop - but also dips into dance, jazz, funk, punk, disco, soul, hip-hop, world music and the avant-garde. Fascinating insights and trivia accompany detailed reviews of each album. What did Time magazine consider the twentieth century's greatest album? Which anthem by Prince was an attempt to emulate Bob Seger? And what links Count Basie and Batman?
With inside knowledge and incisive criticism from 90 internationally acclaimed music journalists, this updated edition provides an indispensable companion to the music itself. Illustrated with more than 900 iconic images of album covers, bands and artists, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is a must-have for the musically inspired.

We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-ups . . . But what happens when we run out of past? Are we heading toward a sort of culturalecological catastrophe where the archival stream of pop history has been exhausted? Simon Reynolds, one of the finest music writers of his generation, argues that we have indeed reached a tipping point, and that although earlier eras had their own obsessions with antiquity—the Renaissance with its admiration for Roman and Greek classicism, the Gothic movement’s invocations of medievalism—never has there been a society so obsessed with the cultural artifacts of its own immediate past. Retromania is the first book to examine the retro industry and ask the question: Is this retromania a death knell for any originality and distinctiveness of our own?

音乐鬼才、澳洲摇滚明星尼克·凯夫在2014年的北美巡演途中，经过了22座城市。在飞机上的呕吐袋上，他写下了巡演旅途中的无穷想象：追寻灵感、思考人生、探索内心、洞悉生死爱恨……其中夹杂着不断闪现的儿时时记忆、创作时的幻觉以及对大洋彼岸的妻子的思念。
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这些作品以散文、诗歌、 歌词、梦境片段的形式呈现，浪漫而尖刻，狡黠而深情，宛如抒情版的奥德赛，诉说了人生的各种可能。一经出版即饱受乐迷、读者、各界评论家和媒体的赞誉。
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超越原版的精致设计，还原呕吐袋质感：
为还原呕吐袋书写的视觉效果，书中收录尼克·凯夫书写的全部呕吐袋实拍照片。整书包括封面和内文的上方书口，均裁切为锯齿状，十分精美。书中封面文字、内文脚注均为手写，笔法自然，还原尼克·凯夫在纸上创作的随意感。全书外覆呕吐袋包装，还原呕吐袋丝网印刷效果，读者也可在袋子上自行创作，再现尼克·凯夫的创作场景。
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设计师周伟伟凭《呕吐袋之歌》斩获数个设计大奖：
△GDC17（平面设计在中国）出版物类提名奖
△澳门设计双年展评审大奖、铜奖
△TOKYOTDC（东京字体指导俱乐部）优异奖
△D&ADAwards（英国设计与艺术指导协会）书籍设计类石墨铅笔奖
其中，D&AD奖是全球创意与设计界最享有声望的大奖之一，每届对入选作品的品质控制非常严格，每年D&AD仅有不到5%左右的作品最终获得提名，而且评委的“一票否决权”使得D&AD被认为是全球最挑剔最严苛的奖项，如果说只选择参加一个全球性设计大奖，非D&AD莫属！
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邀请国内知名摇滚乐手、P.K.14乐队主唱杨海崧翻译：
从音乐人的视角，重述尼克·凯夫的创作历程。翻译文字还原了尼克· 凯夫的阴郁而充满幻想的创作风格，歌词与诗文的翻译保留了原文的押韵与节奏感。

（文/Feather）伊朗导演巴赫曼.戈巴迪在拍摄了“醉马”（《醉马时刻》A Time for Drunken Horses）和“乌龟”（《会飞的乌龟》Turtles Can Fly）后，现在又要开始找猫的“麻烦”了——但其实这将是一部展现伊朗的说唱艺术的影片，并将揭幕第62届戛纳电影节“一种关注”单元。

The Geometry of Musical Rhythm: What Makes a "Good" Rhythm Good? is the first book to provide a systematic and accessible computational geometric analysis of the musical rhythms of the world. It explains how the study of the mathematical properties of musical rhythm generates common mathematical problems that arise in a variety of seemingly disparate fields. For the music community, the book also introduces the distance approach to phylogenetic analysis and illustrates its application to the study of musical rhythm. Accessible to both academics and musicians, the text requires a minimal set of prerequisites. Emphasizing a visual geometric treatment of musical rhythm and its underlying structures, the author-an eminent computer scientist and music theory researcher-presents new symbolic geometric approaches and often compares them to existing methods. He shows how distance geometry and phylogenetic analysis can be used in comparative musicology, ethnomusicology, and evolutionary musicology research. The book also strengthens the bridge between these disciplines and mathematical music theory. Many concepts are illustrated with examples using a group of six distinguished rhythms that feature prominently in world music, including the clave son. Exploring the mathematical properties of good rhythms, this book offers an original computational geometric approach for analyzing musical rhythm and its underlying structures. With numerous figures to complement the explanations, it is suitable for a wide audience, from musicians, composers, and electronic music programmers to music theorists and psychologists to computer scientists and mathematicians. It can also be used in an undergraduate course on music technology, music and computers, or music and mathematics.

《电子舞曲手册(第2版)》由专业的制作人和重混音乐人撰写，结合了舞曲制作的艺术与技术，内容经过了充分调研且行文优美。综合地介绍了音乐制作技术各方面的内容，包括各种设备和工具的知识、不同的曲风。书中含各种音色建议、技术和实例，无论你水平如何，都能帮助你达到专业的效果。

乔恩（多姆纳尔·格利森 Domhnall Gleeson 饰）是一个热爱音乐的年轻人，某天误打误撞加入了一支有点神经质的地下乐队，乐队的主唱兼灵魂人物是弗兰克（迈克尔·法斯宾德 Michael Fassbender 饰）——既是才华横溢的天才、又是终日戴着一个硕大头套的 怪人。乔恩跟着乐队到爱尔兰某个偏僻的小木屋里录制专辑，他们在此过上几近与世隔绝的生活。这一年来，乔恩一直私自将他们的生活以视频的形式发布在社交网络上。终于，乐队的奇特经历引起了某个音乐节主办方的关注，乔恩说服成员们远赴美国参加这个叫西南偏南（SXSW）的音乐节，藉此成名。
本片根据乔恩·强森的回忆录改编。片中的乐队领袖弗兰克以Chris Sievey为原型。Chris Sievey在七八十年代红极一时，他同时是个风趣演员，以喜剧形象“Frank Sidebottom”驰誉。在弗兰克身上还能看到Daniel Johnston、Captain Beefheart等特立独行的音乐人的影子。

A dramatization of the abduction and murder of a Quebec government minister by a cell of The Quebec Liberation Front. In October 1970, one group from the same organization kidnapped the British Consul in Montreal. A few days later, a second group kidnapped Pierre Laporte, a minister of the Quebec Governement. The film tells the story of this last terrorist cell which ended in the death of its hostage.

How Music Got Free is a riveting story of obsession, music, crime, and money, featuring visionaries and criminals, moguls and tech-savv y teenagers. It’s about the greatest pirate in history, the most powerful executive in the music business, a revolutionary invention and an illegal website four times the size of the iTunes Music Store.
Journalist Stephen Witt traces the secret history of digital music piracy, from the German audio engineers who invented the mp3, to a North Carolina compact-disc manufacturing plant where factory worker Dell Glover leaked nearly two thousand albums over the course of a decade, to the high-rises of midtown Manhattan where music executive Doug Morris cornered the global market on rap, and, finally, into the darkest recesses of the Internet.
Through these interwoven narratives, Witt has written a thrilling book that depicts the moment in history when ordinary life became forever entwined with the world online — when, suddenly, all the music ever recorded was available for free. In the page-turning tradition of writers like Michael Lewis and Lawrence Wright, Witt’s deeply-reported first book introduces the unforgettable characters—inventors, executives, factory workers, and smugglers—who revolutionized an entire artform, and reveals for the first time the secret underworld of media pirates that transformed our digital lives.
An irresistible never-before-told story of greed, cunning, genius, and deceit, How Music Got Free isn’t just a story of the music industry—it’s a must-read history of the Internet itself.

模块合成器的发展史

本书是国内第一部全面完整地介绍爵士乐音乐史的大众读物，作者以宽广而独特的历史视角，不落窠臼地把爵士乐产生发展的过程置于风起云涌的时代背景中加以叙述，贯穿了爵士乐起源直至20世纪90年代近一个世纪的兴衰起落。在介绍新奥尔良传统爵士乐（New Orleans Traditional Jazz）、遥摆乐（Swing）、咆哮乐（Bebop or Bop）、酷派爵士乐（Cool Jazz）、自由爵士乐（Free Jazz）等爵士乐流派内部衍化与推进及相关的乐手、代表音乐的同时，全书将爵士乐放在非洲―美洲艺术参照系上，在各种音乐形式融合的“交流史”中做深层性的考察，从而全面而集中地展现了爵士乐这种独特音乐形态的“成长史”与“衍化史”。其所涵盖的信息之广，所涉及的人物之众，足以让读者摆脱时间的羁绊，走进这门具有百年历史古老而恒新的艺术，去感情其深邃广博的内涵。

本书通过分析音乐的各种要素和结构， 深入浅出地叙述了有关音乐欣赏的一切必要知识，某些篇章内容超过了单纯音乐欣赏的范围， 而具有学理性探讨价值，不仅对音乐爱好者，就是对大多数专业音乐工作者也可能有一定的参考价值。
本书初版于1939年，后被译作多种文字。中译本是根据1957年美国Mcgraw-Hill公司的在版本翻译。

这本书是中国出版的关于西方摇滚最优秀的作品。近500副稀缺历史图片，规模宏大，材料丰富，从摇滚与革命，摇滚与极权，摇滚与高雅，摇滚与民族，摇滚与秩序，摇滚与性，摇滚与宗教，摇滚与毒品几个方面讲述了摇滚在发展历程上的被缚与抗争。

中国第一野鸡刊物