Leonardo Music Journal 17 (2007)

My Favorite Things: The Joy of the Gizmo

These days sound is more than just music. Museums, galleries and artists' studios are getting noisier: it's not that there is so much more "Sound Art," but rather that so much more art has sound. Cellphone ringtones generated four billion dollars in sales worldwide in 2004. Incoming email and outgoing popcorn announce themselves with plops and gongs and boops and beeps -- the emerging field of "sonification" addresses this proliferation of all these "earcons" and other representational uses of sound. Sound design is a vital part of Hollywood films and computer games. While CD sales shrink with the proliferation of peer-to-peer file exchange, the creative use of sound is expanding in almost every other part of our lives.

LMJ17 Issue Contents

Introduction to LMJ17 by Nicolas Collins

LMJ17 Table of Contents

"My Favorite Supplement: The Joy of the Gizmo": LEA Special Issue, Supplement to LMJ17

LMJ17 includes compact disc:

The Art of the Gremlin: Inventive Musicians, Curious Devices curated by Sarah Washington

Introduction to LMJ17 CD by Sarah Washington
CD Table of Contents, Tracklist and CD Contributors' Notes

The Leonardo Music Journal Series

The LMJ series is devoted to aesthetic and technical issues in contemporary music and the sonic arts. Currently under the editorship of Nicolas Collins, each thematic issue features artists/writers from around the world, representing a wide range of stylistic viewpoints. Each volume includes the latest offering from the LMJ CD series---an exciting sampling of curious and unusual, but eminently listenable, music. Independently curated and annotated by experts and aficionados, these CDs offer a feast for the ear and mind alike.

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