On the Wires of Our Nerves: The Art of Electroacoustic Music

Lewisburg, PA/ London: Bucknell University Press/ Associated University Presses, 1989. Hardcover. VG-/VG- (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block.). Gray cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; bw illustrated dj, mylar cover; 204 pp; bw illustrations. Contents: Introduction / Robin Julian Heifetz -- Tradition and change : the case of music / Leonard Kasdan and Jon H. Appleton -- Electronic music / Otto Luening -- Electronic music : art beyond technology / Daria Semegen -- Murmur / Kenneth Gaburo -- Some practical aesthetic problems of electronic music composition / David Keane -- Aesthetic dilemmas in electronic music / Jan W. Morthenson -- Aesthetic direction in electronic music / Jon H. Appleton -- The development of personal compositional style / Barry Schrader -- Computer music warmware : the human perspective / Robin Julian Heifetz -- Computer music or computer music? / John Melby -- The quest for "musically interesting" structures in computer music / David Keane.
Aesthetic appeal in computer music / Thomas E. Janzen -- Electronic sonata / Lejaren Hiller -- Composer's input outputs music / Herbert Brün -- Fire and ice : a query / Priscilla McLean -- 'Otahiti: the evolution of a personal style / Jon H. Appleton -- Loudspeakers and performers : some problems and proposals / Dexter Morrill.