The Music: A Novel Through Sound
A Novel through Sound
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Literary
| Author: | Matthew Herbert | ISBN: | 9781783525089 |
| Publisher: | Unbound | Publication: | April 5, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Unbound | Language: | English |
| Author: | Matthew Herbert |
| ISBN: | 9781783525089 |
| Publisher: | Unbound |
| Publication: | April 5, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Unbound |
| Language: | English |
In the last hundred years – between the invention of the microphone and the computer – music has undergone a profound revolution. No longer confined to specifically designed instruments, we can now make music out of anything.
Why use a guitar when you can use a lawnmower? Why use a lawnmower when you can use an explosion in Libya?
The Music evokes a shifting sonic landscape in precise detail – Chinese concrete slowly hardening, overlaid by a splintering cassette tape in the stereo of a car mid-crash. The noise of 73,984 insects hitting number plates followed by that of a drill striking oil deep beneath the earth’s surface. Or just the silence of two unfamiliar people as they look up at the night sky.
As well as being a description of an imagined album this novel is a manifesto for sound, challenging how we hear the world itself, while listening to stories about humanity and our place in that world.
In the last hundred years – between the invention of the microphone and the computer – music has undergone a profound revolution. No longer confined to specifically designed instruments, we can now make music out of anything.
Why use a guitar when you can use a lawnmower? Why use a lawnmower when you can use an explosion in Libya?
The Music evokes a shifting sonic landscape in precise detail – Chinese concrete slowly hardening, overlaid by a splintering cassette tape in the stereo of a car mid-crash. The noise of 73,984 insects hitting number plates followed by that of a drill striking oil deep beneath the earth’s surface. Or just the silence of two unfamiliar people as they look up at the night sky.
As well as being a description of an imagined album this novel is a manifesto for sound, challenging how we hear the world itself, while listening to stories about humanity and our place in that world.
