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        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.
        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.
        Building a Voice

        Building a Voice

        Building a Voice

        Sound, Surface, Skin

        by Zeynep Bulut

        ISBN: 9781913380885

        Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

        Pub Date: March 25, 2025

        On the emergence, embodiment, and mediation of voice as skin.
        Music from Elsewhere

        Music from Elsewhere

        Music from Elsewhere

        Haunting Tunes from the Afterlife, Alien Worlds and Occult Realms

        by Doug Skinner

        ISBN: 9781913689216

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: December 3, 2024

        A compendium of other musics, channeled from the spirit world, the fairy kingdom, outer space, secret societies and occult lodges.
        Two-Headed Doctor

        Two-Headed Doctor

        Two-Headed Doctor

        Listening For Ghosts in Dr. John’s Gris-Gris

        by David Toop

        ISBN: 9781913689605

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: November 26, 2024

        A forensic investigation into a single LP: Dr. John, the night tripper's Gris-gris.
        Ruins and Resilience

        Ruins and Resilience

        Ruins and Resilience

        The Longevity of Experimental Film

        by Karel Doing

        ISBN: 9781915983022

        Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

        Pub Date: July 23, 2024

        Experimental film practice from an international and transdisciplinary perspective.
        Take This Hammer

        Take This Hammer

        Take This Hammer

        Work, Song, Crisis

        by Paul Rekret

        ISBN: 9781913380168

        Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

        Pub Date: May 21, 2024

        A study of contemporary music in light of transformations to work and social life.
        Subcontinental Synthesis

        Subcontinental Synthesis

        Subcontinental Synthesis

        Electronic Music at the National Institute of Design, India 1969–1972

        Edited by Paul Purgas

        ISBN: 9781913689582

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: March 5, 2024

        The history of India's first electronic music studio founded in 1969 at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad by David Tudor.
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