PRE-ORDER: SUBCONTINENTAL SYNTHESIS
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We're delighted to announce that Subcontinental Synthesis: Electronic Music At The National Institute Of Design, India 1969-1972, edited by Paul Purgas, is available to pre-order now, shipping late November.
This new collection of essays and appraisals presents the history of India’s first electronic music studio founded in 1969 at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad by David Tudor.
A book companion to the compilation album The NID Tapes: Electronic Music in India 1969-1972 released by State51, Subcontinental Synthesis explores the history of India’s first electronic music studio, founded in 1969 at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad with the support of the composer David Tudor. The essays and writings unravel the narrative and context surrounding the studio as well as the work of the Indian composers who created groundbreaking recordings during its four years of activity.
The texts reflect on the role of electronic music within a post-independence
India, considering its interconnections with experimental design, radical
pedagogies, and the international avant-garde, as well as the encircling
conditions of Western ideological soft power within the global expansion of
Modernism.
Subcontinental Synthesis
Electronic Music At The National Institute Of Design, India 1969-1972
Edited by
Paul Purgas
£17.99
Paperback with flaps
148mm x 210mm
136pp, 20+ BW images
ISBN: 9781913689582
Contributors
Geeta Dayal, Alannah Chance, Matt Williams, Shilpa Das, Jinraj Joshipura, You
Nakai, Rahila Haque, and Paul Purgas. Foreword by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay