Gideon Karting Never work with your idols

35 commandments for a successful career in the music industry

For more than twenty years Gideon Karting has been a fixture in the music industry. He started at the bottom as a concert billposter and worked his way up to the highest level of concert promotion. He was one of the top promoters in the Netherlands, having promoted all the Dutch shows of a wide range of leading artists, including Lady Gaga, Harry Styles, Adele, One Direction, Arctic Monkeys, Bruno Mars, and BTS. For many years he was also responsible for the programming of major festivals like Lowlands,...

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Engels | 180 pagina's (ePub2, 3,1 MB) | Outliner Books, Rotterdam | 2022

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Orpheus Institute Sound work

composition as critical technical practice

The practices and perception of music creation have evolved with the cultural, social and technological contexts of music and musicians. But musical authorship, in its many technical and aesthetic modes, remains an important component of music culture. Musicians are increasingly called on to share their experience in writing. However, cultural imperatives to account for composition as knowledge production and to make claims for its uniqueness inhibit the development of discourse in both expert and...

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Engels | 376 pagina's (PDF, 23 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021

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Orpheus Institute Experience music experiment

pragmatism and artistic research

"Truth happens to an idea." So wrote William James in 1907; and twenty-four years later John Dewey argued that artistic experience entailed a process of "doing and undergoing." But what do these ideas have to do with music, or with research conducted in and through music-that is, with "artistic research"? In this collection of essays, fourteen very different authors respond with distinct and challenging perspectives. Some report on their own experiments and experiences; some offer probing analyses...

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Engels | PDF, 15 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021

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Orpheus Institute Machinic assemblages of desire

Deleuze and Artistic Research 3

The concept of assemblage has emerged in recent decades as a central tool for describing, analysing, and transforming dynamic systems in a variety of disciplines. Coined by Deleuze and Guattari in relation to different fields of knowledge, human practices, and nonhuman arrangements, "assemblage" is variously applied today in the arts, philosophy, and human and social sciences, forming links not only between disciplines but also between critical thought and artistic practice. Machinic Assemblages...

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Engels | PDF, 27 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021

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Arjan Rietveld | Thomas Hervé Hypnotised

a journey through trance music (1990-2005)

Geschiedenis van de trance in de periode 1990-2005.

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Engels | 332 pagina's | Mary Go Wild, Amsterdam | 2021

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Mark van Schaick Melkweg 50 Light Years

Non-fictie

Engels | 248 pagina's | Stichting Melkweg Amsterdam, Amsterdam | 2021

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Rob Verhorst Pink Floyd

the Rob Verhorst Archives

Engels | 200 pagina's | Bee Smart Book Co., Barendrecht | 2021

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Nico van der Stam Pink Floyd

the Nico van der Stam Archives

Engels | 109 pagina's | Bee Smart Book Co., Barendrecht | 2021

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