Sound FX introduces today?s up and coming musician to the fantastic creative potential of the most popular instrument today - the home studio. It explains the basic and advanced signal processing techniques used in professional music production.

Twenty years ago, SPIN magazine began with the promise to feature uncompromising writing about the music that was turning on/freaking out the Reagan generation. Through the introduction of MTV and the alternative rock revolution, it's been many things. Rude. Brilliant. Soulful. Snotty. Angry. Delirious.

In the past two decades, genres have spawned like mad...

The use of film and video is commonplace in contemporary theatre, viewed by some as contaminating theatre's 'liveness', by others as inevitable and desirable. Beginning with early practitioners such as Melies, Painleve and Piscator, "Staging the Screen" proceeds to explore in detail, the recent productions by Svoboda, the Wooster Group, Forkbeard Fantasy...

Surround Sound "Surround Sound should be the first port of call if you are new to the subject and will provide a good source of reference for anyone already involved." Studio Sound

The sixteenth edition of the "Time Out Film Guide" now weighs in with more than 17,600 reviews, all reviewed over the last 39 years by highly regarded "Time Out" film critics. Its unrivaled coverage of international cinema, Hollywood mainstream and B-movie horrors, blockbusters, forgotten marvels, silent films, documentaries and esoterica includes extensive cast and crew listings.

"What can be done about the state of classical music?" - Lawrence Kramer asks in this elegant, sharply observed, and beautifully written extended essay. Classical music, whose demise has been predicted for at least a decade, has always had its staunch advocates, but in today's media-saturated world, there are real concerns about its viability. "Why...