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The archival compilation album has already been acclaimed as "eye-opening and rich, its discoveries too revolutionary to ignore" by Pitchfork and " what a find... music that tells a vivid story of India during a time of great creative freedom and optimism" over at Boomkat.
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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