The newly revised and expanded edition of John Schneider's classic "The Contemporary Guitar" traces the extraordinary rise of the instrument in concert music over the past century. Though recognized worldwide as a popular music icon, the all-to-recent time when the guitar was looked down upon as a second-class citizen in the world of “serious” music is finally past, and it can now be found in the scores of the most important composers. The guitar’s rightful place in chamber music, orchestral music, or as a solo instrument is now without question, whether in the classic acoustic form or the more recent electric version.

While the guitar has stood in the vanguard of musical experimentation, its many new techniques and notations remain a mystery for many composers and players. In The Contemporary Guitar, musician and scholar, John Schneider explains each class of technique and illustrates them with examples. Moreover, because the guitar is easily refretted, it has also become a leading instrument in the exploration of the relatively new musical language of microtonality. In this revised and enlarged edition from the original work of three decades ago, Schneider adds a broad-ranging, entirely new chapter on the instruments, notation and repertoire with insights into the interpretation of historical works through the application of accurate contemporary tunings and temperaments. 

"Schneider's brilliant book is mandatory reading for anyone who cares about the explosion of music and ideas that has characterized the guitar in our time."  
— David Starobin

"It’s a mammoth achievement – a guitarist’s entire education in one volume - and a readable and fascinating one." —Kyle Gann

"This book is a marvel: encyclopedic in scope, inter-disciplinary in a way far too little of our standard literature is, and yet always enlivened by his passion for an immense subject he knows more about than any of the rest of us. I love opening the doors of this cathedral and wandering about in it!"  — Eliot Fisk

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 364 • Size: 8 1/2 x 11
ISBN: 978-1-4422-3788-9 

Long-running label specializing in noise-rock, no-wave, and experimental rock. 

Slaps Orchestra è un collettivo musicale dedito alla sperimentazione sonora e alla ricerca di nuove forme espressive capaci di unire, in una sintesi aperta e sempre diveniente, le diverse individualità dei componenti del gruppo. Apparecchi elettronici e strumenti tradizionali, voci e computer, musicisti di varia estrazione e diversa formazione, si incontrano sotto l’insegna della estrema libertà esecutiva, adoperando come approccio programmatico e stilistico l’improvvisazione spontanea, fluida, illimitata, convinti che per ridar forza e prestigio alla Musica, intesa come ineguagliabile esperienza vitale, sia necessario anzitutto infettarla, forse distruggerla, sicuramente dimenticarla.

I'm a sound designer who creates plugins and sound libraries.

composer of acoustic, electroacoustic and mixed music; sound artist, media artist.

Aurora Sonora is a soundwalk, an invitation to reflect on the perception of sound (and music) in the urban context, looking for a new outlook on the district, the different modes of living a certain place, focusing on listening.

AWC are from diverse musical backgrounds, amongst them, historically informed performance, noise musics, electroacoustic composition, experimental and popular music. They meet to explore the nature of these traditions, the currents that flow between them, and to experience the loss and rediscovery of sonic identity aided by the mediation of the Ouija instrument.

Torino-based collective of artists formed in 2013 focusing on experimentation, electronics, electroacoustic music, improvisation, live electronics, analog & new digital technologies, sound installations & mixed media performances.

Luca Pertegato (aka xo00) nasce nel 1962 a Milano dove vive e lavora ancora oggi. Dopo una formazione nelle arti visive (pittura, grafica, illustrazione, incisione) e un percorso professionale come grafico e illustratore, nel 2001, spinto anche dalla inesauribile passione per la musica elettronica, contribuisce alla fondazione di Otolab, collettivo di sperimentazione audiovisiva. Qui si dedica all’esplorazione dei rapporti sinestetici tra luce e suono e alla creazione di live performance e installazioni audiovisive, con le quali partecipa a festival nazionali e internazionali di arti elettroniche e digitali.
Dal 2005 è docente di Performance Audiovisiva presso diverse università e accademie d’arte e design come: Naba, Politecnico di Design e Accademia di Brera di Milano, Rufa di Roma, Supsi di Lugano. Progetta inoltre seminari e workshop anche per organizzazioni non accademiche. 
Nel 2011 con Antonio Cavadini sviluppa il progetto Lumanoise per l’auto-costruzione di mini sintetizzatori audio LDR.
Nel 2020 con il percussionista Lorenzo D’Erasmo e la cantante Beyza Çakır dà vita al progetto di live performance Ife.

Adam Asnan (1983, UK) is an electroacoustic musician and location sound recordist, based between London and Berlin. His work promotes the aesthetic potential of sound-capture, amplification, auditory ‘imaging’ and the virtues of both acoustic and synthetic spatialisation. Most recently concerned with ideas of 'phonogeny' (as a parallel to photogeny) in sound recording and tonal works for instrumentalising reverb. 

His compositions, live performances and collaborative projects have been presented across Europe, and has numerous recordings published in all formats.

Adam is one third of VA AA LR with Vasco Alves and Louie Rice.

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