Recommended Reading

Bibliography, Musical/Technical:

    • Desert island book 1, universality of music and possibilities of theory:
      • Sonic Design, Robert Cogan and Pozzi Escot
    • Desert island book 2, hearing tonality and graphing thereof:
      • Structural Hearing, Felix Salzer
    • Desert island book 3, loosening and tightening of the binds: 
      • Tradition and Experiment in the New Music,
        Charles Seeger (with help from Ruth Crawford Seeger
    • Desert island book 4, a manual and a novel: 
      • Gradus ad Parnassum, J.J. Fux, as trans by Alfred Mann
    • Desert island book 5, the modernist’s modernist, and his web:
      • Edgard Varese: Composer, Sounds Sculptor, Visionary
    • Desert island book 6, further more, and such possibilities
      • The Music of John Cage, James Pritchett
    • New Images of Musical Sound, Robert Cogan
    • Poetry of Simple Mathematics in Music, Pozzi Escot
    • Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer’s Search for American Music, Judith Tick
    • Our Singing Country, Ruth Crawford Seeger—music editor
    • The European Musical Heritage, 800-1750, Sarah Fuller
    • Plunderphonics, ‘Pataphonics and Pop Mechanics, Andrew Jones
    • The New Music: The Sense Behind the Sound, Joan Peyser
    • Anthony Philip Heinrich, William Treat Upton
    • Forces In Motion: The Music And Thoughts Of Anthony Braxton, Graham Lock
    • The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach, by Prof. Peter Schickele
    • Free Jazz – Ekkehard Jost
    • Micrologus – Guido d’Arezzo
    • The Music of Conlon Nancarrow – Kyle Gann
    • Miles Beyond – Paul Tingen
    • Led Zeppelin: The Definitive Biography – Ritchie Yorke
    • Led Zeppelin: The Concert File – Dave Lewis with Simon Pallett
    • Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage
    • Concert Music, Rock and Jazz since 1945 – Marvin and Hermann, eds
    • Bach, Beethoven and the Boys – David W. Barbers
    • The Structure of Atonal Music – Allen Forte
    • The Real Frank Zappa Book
    • American Hardcore, Steven Blush
    • Louie, Louie, Dave Marsh
    • Blue, The Murder of Jazz, Eric Nisenson

Cartographical:

    • Maps of the Imagination, Peter Turchi
    • How to Lie with Maps, Mark Monmonier
    • a thousand plateaus: capitalism and schizophrenia
      gilles delezue and felix guatari
    • Mark Lombardi: Global Networks

Non-Fiction:

    • Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes, Richard Kostelanetz
    • Lynch on Lynch, ed. Chris Rodley
    • The I-Ching
    • Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
    • The Theatre of the Absurd, Martin Esslin
    • Chinese Poetic Writing, Francois Cheng

Fiction & Poetry:

    • House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski
    • Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabakov
    • Ubik, Philip K. Dick
    • No Thanks, e. e. cumming
    • Anthology of Concrete Poetry, Emmett Williams
    • Dada: Art and Anti-Art, Hans Richter
    • Darkman, Nicola Barker
    • Billy and the Boingers Bootleg – Berkeley Breathed