Keys to Play

Keys to Play

Author: Roger Moseley

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2016-10-28

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 0520291247

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How do keyboards make music playable? Drawing on theories of media, systems, and cultural techniques, Keys to Play spans Greek myth and contemporary Japanese digital games to chart a genealogy of musical play and its animation via improvisation, performance, and recreation. As a paradigmatic digital interface, the keyboard forms a field of play on which the book’s diverse objects of inquiry—from clavichords to PCs and eighteenth-century musical dice games to the latest rhythm-action titles—enter into analogical relations. Remapping the keyboard’s topography by way of Mozart and Super Mario, who head an expansive cast of historical and virtual actors, Keys to Play invites readers to unlock ludic dimensions of music that are at once old and new.


Lux

Lux

Author: YYZ (Gallery)

Publisher: Pleasure Dome

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13:

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Become immersed in the most innovative and vital in recent Canadian and international experimental film and video. Using the exhibition history of the Toronto screening group Pleasure Dome as a starting point to survey the work of independent film and videomakers during the 1990s, Lux delves into the work of these experimental artists with unprecedented depth and insight. The result is an anthology that provides an extensive overview of the period and also zooms in on the specific themes, oeuvres, styles and individual works that characterize the decade.


Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems

Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems

Author: Alice Fulton

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2005-11-17

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0393327620

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Alice Fulton is one of the most brilliant and honored poets of her generation. She is also among the most compassionate and necessary. Cascade Experiment revises the limits of language, emotion, and thought.


The Secret History of the World

The Secret History of the World

Author: Jonathan Black

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2013-05-30

Total Pages: 803

ISBN-13: 0857383086

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The complete history of the world, from the beginning of time to the present day, based on the beliefs and writings of the secret societies. Jonathan Black examines the end of the world and the coming of the Antichrist. Or is the Antichrist already here? How will he make himself known and what will become of the world when he does? Willl it be the end of Time? Having studied theology and learnt from initiates of all the great secret societies of the world, Jonathan Black has learned that it is possible to reach an altered state of consciousness in which we can see things about the way the world works that hidden from our everyday commonsensical consciousness. This history shows that by using secret techniques, people such as Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton and George Washington have worked themselves into this altered state - and have been able to access supernatural levels of intelligence. This book will leave you questioning every aspect of your life and spotting hidden messages in the very fabric of society and in life itself. It will open your mind to a new way of living and leave you questioning everything you have been taught - and everything you've taught your children.


Moon-face and Other Stories

Moon-face and Other Stories

Author: Jack London

Publisher: IndyPublish.com

Published: 1906

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13:

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JACK LONDON (1876-1916), American novelist, born in San Francisco, the son of an itinerant astrologer and a spiritualist mother. He grew up in poverty, scratching a living in various legal and illegal ways -robbing the oyster beds, working in a canning factory and a jute mill, serving aged 17 as a common sailor, and taking part in the Klondike gold rush of 1897. This various experience provided the material for his works, and made him a socialist. "The son of the Wolf" (1900), the first of his collections of tales, is based upon life in the Far North, as is the book that brought him recognition, "The Call of the Wild" (1903), which tells the story of the dog Buck, who, after his master ́s death, is lured back to the primitive world to lead a wolf pack. Many other tales of struggle, travel, and adventure followed, including "The Sea-Wolf" (1904), "White Fang" (1906), "South Sea Tales" (1911), and "Jerry of the South Seas" (1917). One of London ́s most interesting novels is the semi-autobiographical "Martin Eden" (1909). He also wrote socialist treatises, autobiographical essays, and a good deal of journalism.


Children Without Childhood

Children Without Childhood

Author: Marie Winn

Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780394511368

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Discusses the once-forbidden areas to which children are now exposed, such as drugs and sexually explict cable TV.


News of the Weird

News of the Weird

Author: Chuck Shepherd

Publisher: Plume Books

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780452263116

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For news junkies and fans of the bizarre-but-true, here is an outrageous collection of all-real, all-weird news stories culled from the nation's mainstream newspapers. Line art throughout.


Green Streak

Green Streak

Author: Daniel J. Hale

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9781929976287

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Zeke Armstrong goes to New York for an inline skate-off. After another racer robs an aging heiress in Central Park, the police call it a mugging. 13 year old Zeke suspects that it's a more sinister plot.


Life and Energy

Life and Energy

Author: Isaac Asimov

Publisher: Garden City, N.Y : Doubleday

Published: 1962

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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"An exploration of the physical and chemical basis of modern biology"--Page [1] of cover.