Feedback is a wide-ranging meditation on music, sound, artificial intelligence, consciousness, contemporary culture and politics, and the life of the touring musician. Author Elliott Sharp is considered one of the central figures in NYC's Downtown Scene and is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, visual artist, and educator. Starting from a background in the sciences, Sharp found his passion for music as a teen, and it has never abated. His philosophy is informed not just by music and its creation but by continuing studies in physics and genetics and a visceral interest in our modern world and its joys and horrors. In Feedback, Sharp engages in speculative thought about how consciousness might have arisen and what the future holds for humanity with the advent of an Artificial Intelligence that is certainly artificial but might not exactly be intelligent. The "Improviser's Mind" is discussed in the context of post-quantum physics, probability, socio-acoustics, and Butoh dance. Sharp loves to digress into unpredictable areas but ties it all together in an overarching narrative that is both personal and conceptual.
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Social Science BiographiesTable of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: An Asymptotist Manifesto
- Chapter 3: Experimental? Music and Sound
- Chapter 4: Applications and Builds
- Chapter 5: Socioacoustics
- Chapter 6: Sakunicki
- Chapter 7: Improviser’s Mind
- Chapter 8: Derek Bailey
- Chapter 9: Mind: The Gap
- Chapter 10: The Musical Garden of Toru Takemitsu
- Chapter 11: Nicolas Slonimsky
- Chapter 12: The Implicate Drone
- Chapter 13: Glenn Branca
- Chapter 14: Tim Wright: Street Shamanic
- Chapter 15: Current Strategies for Graphic Notation
- Chapter 16: Future of Mind
- Chapter 17: A Gig’s a Gig
- Chapter 18: The Rising Stars Fife and Drum Band
- Chapter 19: Peter K. Siegel: Serving Music
- Chapter 20: John Fahey on the Decline of the Western World
- Chapter 21: Hubert Sumlin Speaks
- Chapter 22: Pete Cosey: Bridging Sonic Realities
- Chapter 23: Bekerey: Pastry and Politics on the Lower East Side
- Chapter 24: On the Journey That Wasn’t
- Chapter 25: Migration and Sanctuary in Bochum
- Chapter 26: Wholly Land
- Chapter 27: On the Road and in New York with Bachir Attar
- Chapter 28: Tarab and Beyond: Beirut, New York, Sharjah, Berlin
- Chapter 29: Incident in Catania, 1999
- Chapter 30: From the Italian Academy to Miami Beach
- Chapter 31: Soviet Jazz
- Chapter 32: China Times
- Chapter 33: Vong Co: Music of Longing
- Chapter 34: Non-asymptotic
- Selected Discography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
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