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THE ECOSYSTEM OF MUSIC. How Sound Lives, Changes, Remembers, and Survives
Paperback
General MusicMusic TheoryWorld Music
Publisher Price: $40.00
ISBN13: 9789697948154
Publisher: Magic&unique Books
Published: Jul 21 2026
Pages: 768
Weight: 2.00
Height: 1.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Music is not made of notes. It is made of relationships.
When a music disappears, far more than a repertoire is lost. A distinctive intelligence of time, the body, memory, and human connection may vanish with it. An irreplaceable way of hearing the world and imagining the future closes forever.
In this monumental work, internationally acclaimed composer and researcher Louis Siciliano proposes a new vision of Music: a living ecosystem in which sounds, bodies, cultures, technologies, environments, and memories continually transform one another.
From the polyphonies of Taiwan's Bunun people to Uganda's Amadinda, from Gnawa rhythms to the extraordinary choral and bodily precision of Indonesian Saman, from modal traditions to the frontiers of artificial intelligence, the reader enters a sonic universe far larger than the one conventionally described.
Through fifty five original models and a language that unites scientific rigor with narrative force, the book reveals how a melody can emerge between interlocking parts without ever being played in full by a single performer; how unequal rhythms can orient the body with remarkable stability; how one voice can generate multiple simultaneous sonic layers; how diaspora transforms what it inherits; and how a small number of fertile rules can generate entire worlds.
At the heart of this inquiry are two foundational ideas: Return with Difference, through which a form preserves its identity while changing, and Transformative Persistence, the principle that allows a music to endure by continuing to create new possibilities.
Featuring a foreword by Gerard Pape and a Listening Guide that invites readers to experience the phenomena directly, The Ecosystem of Music brings Musicology into dialogue with physics, neuroscience, anthropology, philosophy, technology, and compositional practice.
The musical ecosystem is a model for the survival of Musical Richness in the present and the future.
Gerard Pape
A book for musicians, composers, producers, scholars, and anyone seeking to hear the world with new ears.
Because every music carries a form of knowledge.
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