Author Description

Experimental Music Notebooks is about experimenting with sound: it is a book made for today's and tomorrow's music educator. The author has described a workshop approach for those who have trouble finding a way into the appreciation of experimental music. This approach enables teachers from primary, secondary and higher education, and within the community, to create circumstances for music experimentation for the classroom, as well as in other, sometimes unusual contexts. Special points of focus include awareness of organizing sounds through listening, experiencing soundscapes in various spaces, finding parallels with the sister arts, using sounds as sources for music-making, electroacoustic music, libertarian approaches to music-making, new complexities, simplicities and performance practices, audiovisual sonic art, and fusion and assimilation in experimental (popular) music. Professor Leigh Landy is Head of Music at University College Bretton Hall, West Yorkshire, England. His compositio