Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

269 kr

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The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments is a guided tour through centuries of instruments that never existed. From ancient myths to futuristic media, these imagined devices appear in literature, theory, video games and art, at times echoing real instruments, other times pushing far beyond the bounds of technology. This book presents a wide-ranging collection of such creations, showing how they reflect changing ideas about sound, invention and the limits of the possible. At once a cultural history and a study of creative thought, it uncovers unexpected links between music, design and the human urge to make meaning through sound. These are not just fictional artefacts – they are windows into what music might mean, even when it cannot be played.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-04-01
Mått156 x 208 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor200
FörlagReaktion Books
ISBN9781836391852

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Deirdre Loughridge (Author) Deirdre Loughridge is Professor of Music at Northeastern University, Boston. Her previous books include Sounding Human: Music and Machines, 1740/2020 (2023).Thomas Patteson (Author) Thomas Patteson is a teacher, writer and musician based in Philadelphia. He is the author of Instruments for New Music (2016), lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and co-founder of People’s Music Supply.

What an Arkestra, what a trip! Visiting (and revisiting) Loughridge and Patteson’s The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments immerses you in the sonic, visual and philosophical delights of “fictophones” from across space, time and astral planes. This slim encyclopedia is brilliant, hilarious and erudite – an ultra-evocative and hyper-resonant sextant for an age of sublime and demented machines.