30 review for Infinite Music: Imagining the Next Millennium of Human Music-Making

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   5 out of 5

   Silas – Apr 16, 2019

   Trying to formally deconstruct something 'infinite' is a pointless endeavor... and the author admits this on every other page. There is no process and pragmatism here. It attempts a top-down view when a bottom-up view would be more useful, and ultimately realistic. Learned nothing new about the possibilities of music. Trying to formally deconstruct something 'infinite' is a pointless endeavor... and the author admits this on every other page. There is no process and pragmatism here. It attempts a top-down view when a bottom-up view would be more useful, and ultimately realistic. Learned nothing new about the possibilities of music.

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   4 out of 5

   Ashley – Nov 01, 2020

   Harper describes the potential of diversifying musical language away from stagnant traditions through the development of more intricate musical objects, styles and works which spread like tendrils into the infinite Music Space of possibilities. The ideas here reflect favourably on contemporary electronic music and provides some great food for thought on how composers might frame their own work processes - especially as the act of creating music now often depends on creating your own instruments Harper describes the potential of diversifying musical language away from stagnant traditions through the development of more intricate musical objects, styles and works which spread like tendrils into the infinite Music Space of possibilities. The ideas here reflect favourably on contemporary electronic music and provides some great food for thought on how composers might frame their own work processes - especially as the act of creating music now often depends on creating your own instruments and systems to establish more opportunities for variance, subversion and innovation. Unfortunately, as per the review below I found this maddeningly wordy given the ideas, and I became very impatient around the halfway point as it was clear the pace was not going to pick up. It feels like each idea is explained over and over, and even as the book progresses through its sections it continues to re-illustrate and re-frame previous ideas. I appreciate this commitment to ensuring the reader is following some quite abstract topics, and would prefer that than to go too far the other way, but I felt it really missed the mark for economy of words and actually became overwhelming. Throw in some good illustrations and I think it could have been a third of the length whilst clarifying its ideas more clearly.

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   4 out of 5

   Carson May – Jul 23, 2018

   excessively wordy, but incredibly thought-provoking.

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   4 out of 5

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   5 out of 5

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   5 out of 5

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   5 out of 5

   Metamagical –

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   5 out of 5

   Tyler Etters –

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   4 out of 5

   james singleton –

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    4 out of 5

    Step –

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    4 out of 5

    Jack Cochrane –

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    5 out of 5

    Gabriela Korwin - Piotrowska –

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    4 out of 5

    nnmhj –

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    4 out of 5

    Steven –

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    5 out of 5

    Samuel Savenberg –

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    4 out of 5

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    4 out of 5

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    5 out of 5

    Rob –

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    4 out of 5

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    4 out of 5

    Robert Heath –

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    4 out of 5

    James Hardy –

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    4 out of 5

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    4 out of 5

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    4 out of 5

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    5 out of 5

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    4 out of 5

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    5 out of 5

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    5 out of 5

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    4 out of 5

    Ric Leichtung –

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    5 out of 5

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