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There's also a fantastic collection of fakebooks at https://archive.org/details/fakebooks, including the wonderful Hal Leonard Jazz Fakebook at https://archive.org/details/fakebook_jazzfake – and they also have Barry Kernfeld's fascinating history The Story of Fake Books at https://archive.org/details/storyoffakebooks00kern.
This archive includes the highly entertaining "The Manual: How to Have a Number One the Easy Way" by the KLF, which is well worth your time if you need a laugh this weekend: https://archive.org/details/TheManualHowToHaveANumber1TheEasyWay/.
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/YamahaSound--yamaha-sound-reinforcement-handbook is the best book ever for sorting the bullshit when it comes to things like product specs. A great, general overview (with plenty of detail) of audio and audio systems. You'll never read a Behringer product specification the same way again.
I treated myself to https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/PandTMoog--bjooks-ivs-patch-and-tweak-with-moog recently. Wonderful book, presuming you have one or more of the Moogs covered.
This book was what I needed to get started in mixing. I would still be clueless without.
https://www.amazon.ca/Step-Mixing-Create-Plug-ins-Issues-ebook/dp/B01NC30DNW/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Step+by+step+mixing&qid=1616797535&s=digital-text&sr=1-1
First time I followed the book step by step while I was reading and mixing a song at the same time. My advice would be to write all the step down to make a roadmap for next time.
The second time when I knew a bit what to do I started mixing more by ears. Following my general roadmap.
Just to make people aware, this is a free download. You only need to pay for the 'made from trees' version...
Many greats are already mentioned, and here is one on the philosophical side by Hyperdub boss Steve Goodman: Sonic Warfare
Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/sonic-warfare
Thanks. That sounds great. I will be looking for it this week.
The Bodyguard that includes incredible discarded shots and raw audio from the sessions of two great actors. It was great to hear some of these shots, or download it with it.savefrom.net/download-from-tiktok to describe in the book so many years later.
So many great recommendations but somehow, this one got me excited the most
- it's an oldie but still relevant, I think. I'm currently reading it and enjoying it a lot. Couldn't find a copy to buy but it is available at archive.org as a rental (1 hour rental and you can renew the rental as needed). I made screenshots of the whole book, cleaned it up and made a nice pdf out of it.
If anyone would like a copy, let me know and If you have a suggestion as to where I should upload it to (some easy and anonymous file sharing site), even better
If anyone have “power tools for synthesizer programming” please pm me. Also “Dance Music Manual Tools Techniques” would be much appreciated.
If you're into hip hop music production check out: How to Make Beats (with Slime Green Beats)
It's a good beginner's guide.
74 creative strategies is still free I think - https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/ideas-offers-making-music-home/
On a more theoretical tip, I find that all books by David Toop are excellent. This is my favorite:
https://www.amazon.com/Ocean-Sound-Ambient-listening-communication/dp/1788160304/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=David+toop&qid=1620793253&sr=8-2
Reading this now, I enjoyed the Harry Sword book, but the writing style was not much to my taste. Toop however REALLY knows how to write, this is a real work of art
Are there any good ones available as pdf? In best case some with some good graphics etc? Something to recommend here.
I like the one from attack, but unfortunately
It’s not available digital.
This book is excellent. Every now and again I search for updates from the author: Andy Farnell
To the uninitiated, this book is ultimately a programmatic cookbook for sound design (procedural audio) using examples coded in the PureData visual programming language invented by Miller Puckette.
https://cycling74.com/articles/book-review-designing-sound
What’s a “book”, @Gavinski?
I’ve heard of these things only referred to in legend and in TikTok videos.
Indirect choice: “The Art of the Novel” by Milan Kundera.
He trained as a composer before he wrote “The Joke”. There’s a lot of crossover.
At some level the disciplines are arbitrary.
@Gavinski Yes, Toop is a fine writer. I just finished reading Flutter Echo. It’s more in the nature of a memoir, but really first-rate.
Also, my favorite 20th century composer, Morton Feldman, wrote a very entertaining book called Give My Regards to Eighth St.
https://www.amazon.com/Regards-Eighth-Street-Exact-Change/dp/1878972316/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2ZXVFDYIRRG25&dchild=1&keywords=morton+feldman&qid=1620950777&s=books&sprefix=Morton+,aps,170&sr=1-1
Morton Feldman was making ambient music when Brian Eno was still in kneepants.
10/10 read.
This thread need a bump!
What book are you reading right now?
Nothing particularly musical right now, unless you count the babbling stream that is 'Finnegan's Wake' - and I'm not really flowing with it just yet (an unbroken 3-page run feels like an achievement). I've taken to reading Joyce as a zen exercise. Finding the rhythm in the text and staying with it, even if it makes little immediate sense. There's something creatively valuable in this I think, but it's work, and I need practice.
Other than that, I've been picking at a book about famous mathematicians, another about solving cryptic crosswords and I'm part-way through Mikhail Bulgakov's 'The Master and Margarita', which has a significant musical influence, although it's not about music production or creativity.
What are you reading? Is it good?
If I want to learn more and understand the music of Bach, what book should I read?
I like the way Julio Cortázar wrote about music.
This article mentions his masterpiece Rayuela (Hopscotch), which was also the first hyperlinked novel:
https://www.voicemag.uk/blog/6397/julio-cortazar-typing-jazz
But I recommend El perseguidor (The Pursuer) for starters.
You should probably find a good book/chapter on counterpoint, but I'm not sure what the best resources are. I believe @Kühl is the resident Bach expert, but he's been very quiet since the world changed. I hope he's ok!
Space is the Place, the Sun Ra biography. Just getting started, but it seems very well-researched so far.
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You gotta read it out loud to get the full effect.
This is the classic on the art of the mix.
The Art of Mixing: A Visual Guide to Recording, Engineering and Production
And a more recent classic in the same vein.
Alan Parsons' Art & Science of Sound Recording: The Book
In a completely different direction, this really is the bible of programming funk-fuelled breakbeat style drums.
The Breakbeat Bible
The Bruce Swedien recording method book is really good.