Music Thing Modular Reading List

David Tudor: Teasing Chaos
You Nakai: Reminded by the Instruments: David Tudor's Music
Blank Forms: Organic Music Societies
Jennifer Lucy Allan The Foghorn's Lament
Robert Adlington: Sound Commitments Avant-Garde Music and the Sixties (pdf at Archive.org)
Dennis Desantis: Making Music 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers
Tristram Cary: Illustrated Compenioum of Musical Technology
Mark Cunningham: Good Vibrations: History of Record Production
RA Penfold: Practical Elecronic Music Projects
Norman Crowhurst: Electronic Musical Instruments
Greg Milner: Perfecting Sound Forever
Howard Massey: Behind the Glass
Jane Bussmann: Once in a Lifetime
David Lee Roth: Crazy from the Heat
Nick Collins: The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music
Branden W Joseph: Beyond the Dream Syndicate
David Keane: Tape Music Composition
Peter Forrest: The A-Z of Analogue Synthesisers
Trevor Pinch Frank Trocco: Analog Days
Cogan Clark: Temples of Sound - Inside the great recording studios
Chimurenga: Dr Satan’s Echo Chamber (March 2008)
LF Sevoinius: Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock 'n' Roll Group
Steve Reich: Writings on Music
Douglas Hofstadter: Godel Escher Bach
Elliot Schwartz: Electronic Music, A Listener's Guide
George Anthiel: Bad Boy of Music
John Cage: Diary: How to improve the world (you will only make matters worse)
Francis Bebey: African Music, a people's art
Richard King: Original Rockers
David Byrne: How Music Works
Various: Fowre #1: Synthesizers
Julian Cope: Copendium
Peter Hook: The Hacienda
Goodiepal: El Camino Del Hardcore
Pierre Schaeffer: In Search of a Concrete Music
Douglas Kahn: Wireless Imagination. Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde
Paul DeMarinis: Buried in Noise
FC Judd: Electronics in Music
Daniel Spoerri: An Anecdoted Topography of Chance
Various: Sense Sound Sound Sense - Fluxus Music Scores & Records
Various: Black Mountain: An Interdisciplinary Experiment, 1933 –1957
Walter Sear: The New World of Electronic Music
Jacqueline Caux: Almost nothing with Luc Ferrari
David Stubbs: Fear of Music
David Grubbs: Records Ruin the Landscape
Wim Mertens: American Minimal Music
Giorgio Maffei: Records By Artists: 1958-1990
Christoph Cox: Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music
Jon Appleton: Development and Practice of Electronic Music
George Self: Make a New Sound
Tara Rogers: Pink Noises
Louis Niebur: Special Sound: The Creation and Legacy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Tony Hetherington: Epiphanies: Life Changing Encounters With Music
Michael Nyman: Experimental Music
Tabita Hub: R is for Roland
John Tilbury: Cornelius Cardew: A LIfe Unfinished
Nicholas Collins: Handmade Electronic Music
Rob Young: The Wire Primers: A Guide to Modern Music
Benjamin Piekut: Experimentalism Otherwise The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits
Le Corbusier: The Modulor
Trevor Pinch: The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies
Ian Helliwell: Tape Leaders: A Compendium of Early British Electronic Music Composers
Alana Pagnutti: Reception: The Radio Works of Robert Raschenberg and John Cage
Joel Chadabe: Electric Sound: The past and promise of electronic music
Jeremy Grimshaw: Draw a Straight Line and Follow It: The Music and Mysticism of La Monte Young
Bernd Ulmann: Analog Computing
John Cage: Silence
Richard Orton: Electronic Music For Schools
Robert Cogan: New Images of Musical Sound
Alvin Lucier: Reflections
David Toop: Ocean of Sound
Sylvia Massy: Recording Unhinghed: Creative and Unconventional Music Recording Techniques
Curtis Roads: The Computer Music Tutorial
Arthur Lockwood: Diagrams
Douglas Self: Small Signal Audio Design
Chris Hewitt: Martin Hannett: His equipment and Strawberry Studios
Horowitz Hill: The Art of Electronics
Ross Duffin: How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony
Erik Davis: Krautrock: Cosmic Rock and its legacy
Rene-Pierre Bardet: 200 Drum Machine Patterns
Barbara London: Soundings: A Contemporary Score
David Bernstein: The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant Garde
Howard Massey: The Great British Recording Studios
Various: IPEM: 50 Years of electronic and electroacoustic music at the Ghent University
Wyndham Lewis: Blast 1
Tom Keynton: Homemade Musical Instruments
Larry Austin: Source: Music of the Avant Garde, 1966-1973
Pat Graham: Instrument
Thom Holmes: Electronic and Experimental Music
Dave Hunter: The Guitar Amp Handbook
Tom Hughes: Analog Man's Guide to Vintage Effects
Theresa Sauer: Notations 21
Cornelius Cardew: Treatise
Martin Iddon: John Cage and David Tudor: Correspondence on Interpretation and Performance
Alan Douglas: The Electronic Musical Instrument Manual: A guide to theory and design
Hartmut Bohnacker: Generative Design: Visualize, Program and Create with Processing
Balint Andras Varga: Conversations with Iannis Xenakis
Robert Barry: The Music of the Future
Kim Bjorn: Push Turn Move, Patch & Tweak
Stefan Szczelkun: Improvisation Rites:: from John Cage’s ‘Song Books’ to the Scratch Orchestra’s ‘Nature Study Notes’
David Keenan: England's Hidden Reverse
Schneidersbuero: Don't Buy Crap: 20 years of Loten
K. Robert Schwartz: Minimalists
Arie Altena: Travelling Time: Sonic Acts XIV
Heinz von Foerster: Music by Computers
Emmett Williams: An Anthology of Concrete Poetry
Patrick Feaster: Pictures of Sound: 1000 years of Educed Audio
Ralf Beil: A House Full of Music: Strategies in Music and Art
Charles Platt: Make: Electronics
Keith Richards: Life
Dave Tompkins: How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks
Alex Ross: The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Robert Fink: Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice
Kenneth Silverman: Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage
John Higgs: KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money
Bob Stanley: Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop
Mark Ellen: Rock Stars Stole my Life!: A Big Bad Love Affair with Music
David Stubbs: Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany
Alvin Lucier: Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music
Philip Glass: Words Without Music
Will Hermes: Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York that Changed Music Forever
Sean Michaels: Us Conductors
Curtis Roads: Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic
Rudi Esch: Electri_City: The Düsseldorf School of Electronic Music
Alvin Lucier: Eight Lectures on Experimental Music
Alvin Lucier: Chambers
John Cage: Notations
Various: Signal Culture Cookbook
Lejaren Hiller: Experimental Music: Composition with an Electronic Computer
Hal Chamberlin: Musical Applications of Microprocessors
John Cage: A Year From Monday: New Lectures and Writings
Julian Cope: Krautrocksampler
Allen Strange: Electronic Music: Systems Techniques and Controls
La Monte Young: An Anthology of Chance Operations
Terence Dwyer: Composing With Tape Recorders
Pauline Oliveros: Software for People: Collected writings 1963-80 (pdf)
Murray Schafer: Ear Cleaning: Notes for an experimental music course
Iannis Xenakis: Formalized Music
Rob Young: Electric Eden. Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music
Edward Strickland: American Composers: Dialogues on Contemporary Music
Curtis Roads: Foundations of Computer Music