{"product_id":"the-sound-of-thinking-by-craig-dworkin-9780226847719","title":"The Sound of Thinking","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lively compendium of musical practices and compositions that upend notions of creativity and expressivity while diversifying our sense of the musical canon.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn artist draws two octaves of pitches randomly from a hat, just enough to set each syllable of the dictionary definition of \u003ci\u003eimprimer\u003c\/i\u003e (to score, to print). Trawling the internet for cute videos of cats “playing” piano, an artist splices together a complete, note-perfect performance of Arnold Schoenberg’s \u003ci\u003eOpus 11\u003c\/i\u003e. Half a century after the release of Miles Davis’s album \u003ci\u003eKind of Blue\u003c\/i\u003e, a jazz quintet spends months of focused practice to reproduce the original exactly. These performances share a common denominator: absolute fidelity to the outcome of a system. From Marcel Duchamp to Yoko Ono, Steve Reich to Sun Ra, \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e brings together a diverse array of musical or sonic works that are algorithmic, automatic, permutational, procedural, or otherwise structured in contrast to the creative expressivity typically associated with artistic production.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn twenty-six short essays, each keyed to a term that begins with a different letter of the alphabet, Dworkin discusses work composed or performed according to a predetermined rule, transforming artistic creation into a system running its course. The pieces detailed here, drawn from more than a century of musical experimentation, offer a fresh perspective on the history of innovative music by decoupling music from expression and by shunting creativity from the level of organizing sounds to the level of devising a system that can do the organizing. Not only does this book spotlight the critical role of music in twentieth-century conceptual art, but it also identifies previously overlooked links among diverse artists and movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47650171748588,"sku":"9780226847719","price":87.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780226847719-the-sound-of-thinking.jpg?v=1779317699","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-sound-of-thinking-by-craig-dworkin-9780226847719","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}