{"product_id":"now-that-the-audience-is-assembled-9780822371472","title":"Now That the Audience Is Assembled","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David Grubbs\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Genres \u0026amp; Styles - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing his investigation into experimental music and sound recording in \u003ci\u003eRecords Ruin the Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e, David Grubbs turns his attention to the live performance of improvised music with an altogether different form of writing. \u003ci\u003eNow that the audience is assembled\u003c\/i\u003e is a book-length prose poem that describes a fictional musical performance during which an unnamed musician improvises the construction of a series of invented instruments before an audience that is alternately contemplative, participatory, disputatious, and asleep. Over the course of this phantasmagorical all-night concert, repeated interruptions take the form of in-depth discussions and musical demonstrations. Both a work of literature and a study of music, \u003ci\u003eNow that the audience is assembled\u003c\/i\u003e explores the categories of improvised music, solo performance, text scores, instrument building, aesthetic deskilling and reskilling, and the odd fate of the composer in experimental music.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46472574173335,"sku":"9780822371472","price":2895.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780822371472.jpg?v=1766254936","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/now-that-the-audience-is-assembled-9780822371472","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}