A Reader staffer shares three musical obsessions, then asks someone (who asks someone else) to take a turn.
PAIN TEENS Born In Blood by Bliss Blood
Curtis Roads, Microsound This seminal 2004 book by Curtis Roads covers the history, theory, and compositional practice of microsound—which not only dissolved the familiar building blocks of music but also laid the groundwork for what we now call granular synthesis. Roads lays out meticulous recipes for exploring the realm of sound particles briefer than one-tenth of a second—a kind of quantum sonic world.
