this one's a book, author: paul theberge. it's another in the wesleyan
university popular music/cultural studies series that also includes tricia
rose's "black noise" and sarah thornton's "club cultures." "any sound you
can imagine" is about the interlocking aesthetic, technological,
institutional, and consumer cultural forces delimiting the space of the
adoption and utilization of electronic music instruments and recording and
editing technologies. i'm only into the introduction, but so far it's quite
good, and promises a nice complement/commentary/contrast for consideration
of the cultural/aesthetic space of experimentation (i.e., idm, experimental
electronica, etc.).
sc