{"product_id":"sound-of-thinking","title":"Sound of Thinking","description":"\u003cb\u003eA lively compendium of musical practices and compositions that upend notions of creativity and expressivity while diversifying our sense of the musical canon.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e An artist draws two octaves of pitches randomly from a hat, just enough to set each syllable of the dictionary definition of \u003ci\u003eimprimer\u003c\/i\u003e (to score, to print). Trawling the internet for cute videos of cats “playing” piano, an artist splices together a complete, note-perfect performance of Arnold Schoenberg’s \u003ci\u003eOpus 11\u003c\/i\u003e. Half a century after the release of Miles Davis’s album \u003ci\u003eKind of Blue\u003c\/i\u003e, a jazz quintet spends months of focused practice to reproduce the original exactly. These performances share a common denominator: absolute fidelity to the outcome of a system. From Marcel Duchamp to Yoko Ono, Steve Reich to Sun Ra, \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e brings together a diverse array of musical or sonic works that are algorithmic, automatic, permutational, procedural, or otherwise structured in contrast to the creative expressivity typically associated with artistic production.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In twenty-six short essays, each keyed to a term that begins with a different letter of the alphabet, Dworkin discusses work composed or performed according to a predetermined rule, transforming artistic creation into a system running its course. The pieces detailed here, drawn from more than a century of musical experimentation, offer a fresh perspective on the history of innovative music by decoupling music from expression and by shunting creativity from the level of organizing sounds to the level of devising a system that can do the organizing. Not only does this book spotlight the critical role of music in twentieth-century conceptual art, but it also identifies previously overlooked links among diverse artists and movements.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56124857254232,"sku":"9780226847719","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780226847719_e975ca70-e0f4-454c-818a-d9decbafcfc9.jpg?v=1779865227","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/sound-of-thinking","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}