Storm Static Sleep

Storm Static Sleep

Author: Jack Chuter

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780957249226

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Storm Static Sleep: A Pathway Through Post-Rock is the first publication dedicated to the story of post-rock music. As grunge and britpop ruled the airwaves in the early 90s, post-rock was a vital jolt of innovation for a world sleepwalking back towards rock tradition. Now, more than twenty years on, post-rock's mark on the cultural landscape is significant. Dedicated post-rock festivals exist across the globe and the music is commonplace in film and advertisement soundtracks. Meanwhile, the listenership has bloomed into an international community whose devotion borders on the obsessive. Despite its rise to mainstream cultural prominence, the significance of post-rock remains a subject of some controversy, with the label itself often abused as a journalistic cliché and regularly loathed by the artists tagged with it. To date there is no comprehensive account of post-rock history in either print or online. Storm Static Sleep sets the record straight. It unpicks the meaning of post-rock, tunnelling back to its origins to interrogate the journalists who championed it and the bands who renounced it. Featuring over 30 first-hand interviews with some of the most prominent names in post-rock - including members of Mogwai, Tortoise, Mono, Isis, Slint, God Is An Astronaut and producer Steve Albini - Storm Static Sleep follows one of music's most nomadic terms through every stage of its transformation.


Futuromania

Futuromania

Author: Simon Reynolds

Publisher: Hachette Books

Published: 2024-05-07

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 0306833794

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A collection of writing by Simon Reynolds, centered on music that seemed, in its moment, to prefigure the Future Simon Reynolds's first book in eight years is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow. Sounds that prefigure pop music's future—the vanguard genres and heroic innovators whose discoveries eventually get accepted by the wider mass audience. But it's also about the way music can stir anticipation for a thrillingly transformed world just around the corner: a future that might be utopian or dystopian, but at least will be radically changed and exhilaratingly other. Starting with an extraordinary chapter on Giorgio Moroder and Donna Summer, taking in illuminating profiles of Ryuichi Sakamoto, Boards of Canada, Burial, and Daft Punk, and arguing for Auto-Tune as the defining sound of 21st century pop, Futuromania shapes over two dozen essays and interviews into a chronological narrative of machine-music from the 1970s to now. Reynolds explores the interface between pop music and science fiction's utopian dreams and nightmare visions, always emphasizing the quirky human individuals abusing the technology as much as the era-defining advances in electronic hardware and digital software. A tapestry of the scenes and subcultures that have proliferated in that febrile, sexy, and contested space where man meets machine, Futuromania is an enthused listening guide that will propel readers towards adventures in sound. There is a lifetime of electronic listening here.


All Music Guide to Rock

All Music Guide to Rock

Author: Vladimir Bogdanov

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 1430

ISBN-13: 9780879306533

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This fun-to-read, easy-to-use reference has been completely updated, expanded, and revised with reviews of over 12,000 great albums by over 2,000 artists and groups in all rock genres. 50 charts.


Mastering Apache Storm

Mastering Apache Storm

Author: Ankit Jain

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2017-08-16

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1787120406

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Master the intricacies of Apache Storm and develop real-time stream processing applications with ease About This Book Exploit the various real-time processing functionalities offered by Apache Storm such as parallelism, data partitioning, and more Integrate Storm with other Big Data technologies like Hadoop, HBase, and Apache Kafka An easy-to-understand guide to effortlessly create distributed applications with Storm Who This Book Is For If you are a Java developer who wants to enter into the world of real-time stream processing applications using Apache Storm, then this book is for you. No previous experience in Storm is required as this book starts from the basics. After finishing this book, you will be able to develop not-so-complex Storm applications. What You Will Learn Understand the core concepts of Apache Storm and real-time processing Follow the steps to deploy multiple nodes of Storm Cluster Create Trident topologies to support various message-processing semantics Make your cluster sharing effective using Storm scheduling Integrate Apache Storm with other Big Data technologies such as Hadoop, HBase, Kafka, and more Monitor the health of your Storm cluster In Detail Apache Storm is a real-time Big Data processing framework that processes large amounts of data reliably, guaranteeing that every message will be processed. Storm allows you to scale your data as it grows, making it an excellent platform to solve your big data problems. This extensive guide will help you understand right from the basics to the advanced topics of Storm. The book begins with a detailed introduction to real-time processing and where Storm fits in to solve these problems. You'll get an understanding of deploying Storm on clusters by writing a basic Storm Hello World example. Next we'll introduce you to Trident and you'll get a clear understanding of how you can develop and deploy a trident topology. We cover topics such as monitoring, Storm Parallelism, scheduler and log processing, in a very easy to understand manner. You will also learn how to integrate Storm with other well-known Big Data technologies such as HBase, Redis, Kafka, and Hadoop to realize the full potential of Storm. With real-world examples and clear explanations, this book will ensure you will have a thorough mastery of Apache Storm. You will be able to use this knowledge to develop efficient, distributed real-time applications to cater to your business needs. Style and approach This easy-to-follow guide is full of examples and real-world applications to help you get an in-depth understanding of Apache Storm. This book covers the basics thoroughly and also delves into the intermediate and slightly advanced concepts of application development with Apache Storm.


Firestorm

Firestorm

Author: Tamara McKinley

Publisher: Quercus

Published: 2014-10-07

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1623655617

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Becky Jackson's family has been managing the hospital in far-flung Morgan's Reach for three generations. When Becky's husband is tragically lost at war, she and her young son Danny must leave the city and return to her birthplace to start over. But for all its charm, Morgan's Reach is a divided community, where blood is thicker than water and grudges run deep. So when a mysterious stranger appears outside the town and Danny begins to act strangely, it is not only Becky's newfound stability that's threatened. And what of the fact that there's not been a drop of rain in over three years? The risk of wildfire looms large and the hospital is already pushed to breaking point. A single spark could level the area in minutes--burning away everything for which the town has worked so hard; exposing the secrets they've fought to keep so close.


Storm Wings

Storm Wings

Author: Becca Lusher

Publisher: Becca Lusher

Published: 2018-10-07

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13:

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Trouble covers the Overworld and the Rift Riders seem further from home than ever, but there is hope in the darkness, even if the road to recovery is long. For the first time in more than a century, dragons have returned to the human lands, but their numbers are few and their welcome is… difficult. If Mhysra, Lyrai and their friends were expecting a heroes’ welcome on their return, they may have a long time to wait. In the West, Stirla and Derrain have their own troubles to deal with, thanks to a determined princess and some foolhardy nobles. Not to mention the opinions and intentions of their superiors. And at Aquila, Lord Yullik waits for the fight he knows will come. Yet all the while an unseen threat moves in the shadows. New dangers stir across the mountain, but whether for good or evil, only the gods of this cursed world can tell…


Storm Kings

Storm Kings

Author: Lee Sandlin

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2014-03-11

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0307473589

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With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations In Storm Kings, Lee Sandlin retraces America's fascination and unique relationship to tornadoes and the weather. From Ben Franklin's early experiments, to "the great storm debates" of the nineteenth century, to heartland life in the early twentieth century, Sandlin shows how tornado chasing helped foster the birth of meteorology, recreating with vivid descriptions some of the most devastating storms in America's history. Drawing on memoirs, letters, eyewitness testimonies, and numerous archives, Sandlin brings to life the forgotten characters and scientists that changed a nation and how successive generations came to understand and finally coexist with the spiraling menace that could erase lives and whole towns in an instant.


Popular Music in the Post-Digital Age

Popular Music in the Post-Digital Age

Author: Ewa Mazierska

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2018-12-13

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1501338390

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Popular Music in the Post-Digital Age explores the relationship between macro environmental factors, such as politics, economics, culture and technology, captured by terms such as 'post-digital' and 'post-internet'. It also discusses the creation, monetisation and consumption of music and what changes in the music industry can tell us about wider shifts in economy and culture. This collection of 13 case studies covers issues such as curation algorithms, blockchain, careers of mainstream and independent musicians, festivals and clubs-to inform greater understanding and better navigation of the popular music landscape within a global context.


The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage

Author: Sarah Baker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-16

Total Pages: 923

ISBN-13: 1315299291

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The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage examines the social, cultural, political and economic value of popular music as history and heritage. Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, the volume explores the relationship between popular music and the past, and how interpretations of the changing nature of the past in post-industrial societies play out in the field of popular music. In-depth chapters cover key themes around historiography, heritage, memory and institutions, alongside case studies from around the world, including the UK, Australia, South Africa and India, exploring popular music’s connection to culture both past and present. Wide-ranging in scope, the book is an excellent introduction for students and scholars working in musicology, ethnomusicology, popular music studies, critical heritage studies, cultural studies, memory studies and other related fields.


Sleep and ADHD

Sleep and ADHD

Author: Harriet Hiscock

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2019-03-19

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 0128141816

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Sleep and ADHD begins with an overview of sleep (normal sleep, sleep cues, developmental phases, etc.) and continues with the epidemiology of ADHD and sleep problems, including medical issues (e.g. sleep apnea), parasomnias, behavioral insomnias (i.e. limit setting, sleep onset association disorders, circadian rhythm disorders and anxiety-related insomnia). It then covers the etiology of sleep problems, including the role of sleep hygiene and habits, the developing child, and the role of stimulants and medications used in the management of ADHD sleep problems. As the first book of its kind, users will find this reference an invaluable addition to the literature on ADHD. - Covers both the pharmacological and non-pharmacological management of sleep problems - Addresses sleep issues in younger children, but also addresses adolescents and adults - Discusses the impact of sleep problems on the family as well as the child with ADHD - Reviews the evidence around the neurobiology of sleep and systems regulating sleep in ADHD