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The Music: An Album In Words
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The Music: An Album In Words
Artist
Matthew Herbert
Label
Accidental Records
Release Date
July 21, 2022

This 'modernist masterpiece' (Max Porter) from award-winning musician Matthew Herbert is a description of an imagined album that challenges how we hear the world around us

In the last hundred years – between the invention of the microphone and the computer – music has undergone a profound revolution. No longer confined to specifically designed instruments, we can now make music out of anything. Why use a guitar when you can use a lawnmower? Why use a lawnmower when you can use an explosion in Libya? The Music evokes a shifting sonic landscape in precise detail: Chinese concrete slowly hardening, overlaid by a splintering cassette tape in the stereo of a car mid-crash. The noise of 73,984 insects hitting number plates followed by that of a drill striking oil deep beneath the earth’s surface. Or just the silence of two unfamiliar people as they look up at the night sky. As well as being a description of an imagined album, this book is a manifesto for sound, challenging how we hear the world itself, while listening to stories about humanity and our place in that world.

Matthew Herbert

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