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        Life of the Party

        Life of the Party

        Life of the Party

        by Harmony Holiday

        ISBN: 9781635902013

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: April 21, 2026

        An archive and annotation of Black music-performance culture, produced alongside Harmony Holiday's first solo museum exhibition, Black Backstage.
        The STEIM Touch

        The STEIM Touch

        The STEIM Touch

        The Emergence of Musical Sensor Instruments

        by Andi Otto

        ISBN: 9781915983459

        Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

        Pub Date: March 10, 2026

        The story of STEIM and the first sensor instruments in digital music.
        Search & Destroy

        Search & Destroy

        Search & Destroy

        The Complete Archive

        Edited by V. Vale, Cecily Chen and Mitch Anzuoni

        ISBN: 9781965874264

        Publisher: Inpatient Press

        Pub Date: December 9, 2025

        The collected run of the groundbreaking and iconoclastic zine.
        Fierce Dancing

        Fierce Dancing

        Fierce Dancing

        Adventures in the Underground

        by C. J. Stone

        ISBN: 9781917674089

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: October 7, 2025

        A vividly personal journey tracing the legacy of 1960s counterculture into the free parties, road protests, and traveler movements of 1990s Britain.
        Sound Strategies

        Sound Strategies

        Sound Strategies

        Music as Ideological Apparatus

        by Pil and Galia Kollectiv

        Foreword by Juliet Jacques

        ISBN: 9781917319010

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: October 7, 2025

        A vital new theory of popular music considered as political strategy, from Industrial to Britpop.
        Electronic Baroque

        Electronic Baroque

        Electronic Baroque

        Building a Historical Organ for the Present

        by Peter F. Peters

        ISBN: 9780262553636

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 26, 2025

        A fascinating, real-time ethnography of the building of a unique musical instrument with both mechanical and electronic components.
        Sex Is No Emergency

        Sex Is No Emergency

        Sex Is No Emergency

        Adventures in a Post Punk Wonderland

        by Dorothy Max Prior

        ISBN: 9781913689810

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: August 5, 2025

        Further adventures in psychedelic rock, ball room dancing, performance art, and parenting in 1980s Britain.
        Erik Satie Three Piece Suite

        Erik Satie Three Piece Suite

        Erik Satie Three Piece Suite

        by Ian Penman

        ISBN: 9781635902532

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: May 20, 2025

        A masterful study of the elusive French composer, on the centenary of his death.
        Bat Girls and Acid Boys

        Bat Girls and Acid Boys

        Bat Girls and Acid Boys

        The Spontaneous Drawings of Leigh Bowery & Friends

        Edited by Richard Torry

        Foreword by Jonny Trunk

        ISBN: 9781917319003

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: May 20, 2025

        120 vivid "exquisite corpse" drawings made by the outrageous artist, performer, and designer Leigh Bowery with friends and collaborators during the 1980s and 1990s.
        The SuperCollider Book

        The SuperCollider Book, second edition

        The SuperCollider Book

        Edited by Scott Wilson, David Cottle and Nick Collins

        Foreword by James McCartney

        ISBN: 9780262049702

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 29, 2025

        A comprehensive update of the essential reference to SuperCollider, with new material on machine learning, musical notation and score making, SC Tweets, alternative editors, parasite languages, non-standard synthesis, and the cross-platform GUI library.
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