The groundbreaking mix CD that accompanies this book features Nam Jun Paik, the Dada Movement, John Cage, Sonic Youth, and many other examples of avant-garde music. Most of the CD's content comes from the archives of Sub Rosa, a legendary record label that has been the benchmark for archival sounds since the beginnings of electronic music. (For a complete list of audio credits, see below.)

If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, Sound Unbound is about the remixandmdash;how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines between what an artist can do and what a composer can create. In Sound Unbound, Rhythm Science author Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid asks artists to describe their work and compositional strategies in their own words. These are reports from the front lines on the role of sound and digital media in an information-based society. The topics are as diverse as the contributors: composer Steve Reich offers a memoir of his life with technology, from tape loops to video opera; Miller himself considers sampling and civilization; novelist Jonathan Lethem writes about appropriation and plagiarism; science fiction writer Bruce Sterling looks at dead media; Ron Eglash examines racial signifiers in electrical engineering; media activist Naeem Mohaiemen explores the influence of Islam on hip hop; rapper Chuck D contributes andquot;Three Piecesandquot;; musician Brian Eno explores the sound and history of bells; Hans Ulrich Obrist and Philippe Parreno interview composer-conductor Pierre Boulez; and much more. andquot;Press 'play,'andquot; Miller writes, andquot;and this anthology says 'here goes.'andquot;

Contributors: David Allenby, Pierre Boulez, Catherine Corman, Chuck D, Erik Davis, Scott De Lahunta, Manuel DeLanda, Cory Doctorow, Eveline Domnitch, Frances Dyson, Ron Eglash, Brian Eno, Dmitry Gelfand, Dick Hebdige, Lee Hirsch, Vijay Iyer, Ken Jordan, Douglas Kahn, Daphne Keller, Beryl Korot, Jaron Lanier, Joseph Lanza, Jonathan Lethem, Carlo McCormick, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, Moby, Naeem Mohaiemen, Alondra Nelson, Keith and Mendi Obadike, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Pauline Oliveros, Philippe Parreno, Ibrahim Quraishi, Steve Reich, Simon Reynolds, Scanner aka Robin Rimbaud, Nadine Robinson, Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), Alex Steinweiss, Bruce Sterling, Lucy Walker, Saul Williams, Jeff E. Winner.

On the CD:

1. RadioMentale and Matthew Herbert, andquot;Cool Noisesandquot;
2. Martyn Bates/Allen Ginsberg, andquot;Once Loved/A Footnote to 'Howl' (DJ Spooky Remix)andquot;
3. Jean Cocteau, andquot;Le buste (DJ Spooky Remix)andquot;
4. Sun Ra, andquot;Imaginationandquot;
5. Mikhail/Gertrude Stein, andquot;Untitled in CoF Minor/A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson (DJ Spooky Remix)andquot;
6. DJ Spooky vs. Rob Swift, andquot;Scratch Battleandquot;
7. Marcel Duchamp/The Master Musicians of Joujouka/RadioMentale, andquot;The Creative Act/Interview with George Heard Hamilton/Boujeloud (Solo Drums)/I Could Never Make That Music Againandquot;
8. Raymond Scott, andquot;The Paperwork Explosionandquot;
9. Alter Echo/Pamela Z, andquot;Perpetual Next/Pop Titles 'You'andquot;*
10. Liam Gillick/ RadioMentale and Aphex Twin, andquot;Sarah (Los Angeles Soundtrack)/I Could Never Make That Music Againandquot;
11. James Joyce/Erik Satie, andquot;Eolian Episode/Gnossiene (DJ Spooky Dub Version)andquot;
12. Steve Reich, andquot;Reed Phaseandquot;
13. Shukar/RadioMentale/Raoul Hausmann, andquot;Cika-Laka/Cool Noises/Bbbandquot;
14. Augustos de Campos/Bill Laswell/To Rococo Rot, andquot;Dias Dias Dias (Spoken by Caetano Veloso)/Above the Earth/Contacteandquot;
15. John Cage, andquot;Rozart Mixandquot;
16. Antonin Artaud, andquot;Pour Finir avec le Jugement de Dieu (To Have Done with God's Judgment) (DJ Spooky Remix)andquot;
17. DJ Spooky, andquot;One Laptop Themeandquot;
18. Susan Deyhim, andquot;The Spilled Cup (DJ Spooky Remix)andquot;
19. Raymond Scott, andquot;General Motors: Futurama (Interstitial)andquot;
20. Marcel Duchamp/George Lewis and Aki Takase, andquot;Erratum Musical (Score for Three Voices)/Voyage for Threeandquot;
21. Bill Laswell/Renandeacute; Magritte, andquot;Ghost Dub/Le Surrandeacute;alisme et les Questionsandquot;
22. Anthony Braxton and Evan Parker/Pauline Oliveros, andquot;The First Setandmdash; Area 4 (Solo)/A Little Noise in the System (Moog System)andquot;
23. Bora Yoon, andquot;// (DJ Spooky Remix)andquot;
24. Pierre Schaeffer, andquot;Cinqandeacute;tudes de bruits: andEacute;tude violetteandquot;
25. Daniel Bernard Roumain and Ryuichi Sakamoto, andquot;The Need to Beandquot;**
26. Phillip Glass, andquot;Music in Fifthsandquot;
27. Edgard Varandegrave;se, andquot;Poandegrave;me andeacute;lectroniqueandquot;
28. Iannis Xenakis, andquot;Concret PHandquot;
29. Ryoji Ikeda, andquot;One Minuteandquot;
30. Sonic Youth, andquot;Audience (DJ Spooky Remix)andquot;
31. Alter Echo/Ge-te Do-pe, andquot;Aftermath of Creations Dub (in Three Parts)/Dong Limandquot;
32. Terry Riley/Alter Echo, andquot;Dorian Reeds/Aftermath of Creations Dub (in Three Parts)andquot;
33. Luigi Russolo/DJ Spooky, andquot;Corale/FTP > Bundle/Conduit 23andquot;
34. Fanfare Savale/Vladimir Mayakovsky, andquot;Rumba Lu Georgel/I Know the Power of Wordsandquot;
35. Droma/Trilok Gurtu and Bill Laswell, andquot;Pilgrim's Song (Trala Shepa)/Kalaandquot;
36. Nam Jun Paik, andquot;Hommage andagrave; John Cageandquot;
37. Morton Subotnick/DJ Spooky, andquot;Mandolin/Acid Basslineandquot;
38. The Master Musicians of Joujouka/Hans Arp, andquot;Mali Mal Hal M'Halmaz/Boujeloud (Solo Drums)/Dada-Spranduuml;cheandquot;
39. Sub Swara/Kurt Schwitters, andquot;Koli Stance/Anna Blumeandquot;
40. Walter Ruttmann/Troupe from Taschingang, andquot;Week End/Ache Lhamoandquot;
41. Raymond Scott, andquot;Bendix 1: The Tomorrow Peopleandquot;
42. Martyn Bates/Trinlem, andquot;I Can't Look for You/The Palaces of Gesar's Family (DJ Spooky Remix)andquot;
43. Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky, andquot;Incantation for Tapeandquot;
44. Carsten Nicolai, andquot;Time ... Dot(3)andquot;
45. William S. Burroughs and Iggy Pop with Techno Animal, andquot;The Western Landandquot;

*From Pamela Z's A Delay Is Better CD released by Starkland (www.starkland.com).
**andquot;The Need to Beandquot; is from DBR's album etudes4violinandelectronix released on Thirsty Ear Recordings.

Special thanks for Editorial Assistance to Roy Christopher.

andquot;Paul Miller is one of the best cultural radars in the world today. He always picks out the most relevant people working today and reveals previously unseen connections. If you want situational awareness about the world of sound, music, performance, computers, and ideas, read this book.andquot;
andmdash;Lev Manovich, Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego,

andquot;It's a lovely eclectic collection that is a nice antidote to the usual way music and the history of music is often categorized into high/low, pop/classical, or black/white. I like Sterling's analogy between our beloved high-tech media and inscrutable indecipherable archaic media like Incan quipus. From Raymond Scott to the hidden racism in digital circuitry to a history of easy listening, there is enough inspiring weirdness here to fuel some musical fires for a good while.andquot;
andmdash;David Byrne

andquot;Paul Miller has grabbed disparate philosophies and references from the past five hundred years and tied them into a neat and interesting narrative on music, sound, and current thought in our time. Sound Unbound is an excellent reference on artandmdash;in the popular contextandmdash;in the twenty-first century.andquot;
andmdash;Branford Marsalis

andquot;For the maverick rhythm scientist Paul D. Miller, sound is liquid; it spills over and slips under categories, firewalls, case law, and legal codes to find us and move us. In the same way, his important collection of sound thinkers and sound ideas calls us to remove the fake 'security' imposed on us by capital and state, and, more crucially, to reimagine freedom and reclaim our creativity.andquot;
andmdash;Jeff Chang, author of Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

The role of sound and digital media in an information-based society: artistsandmdash;from Steve Reich and Pierre Boulez to Chuck D and Mobyandmdash;describe their work.

The role of sound and digital media in an information-based society: artists--from Steve Reich and Pierre Boulez to Chuck D and Moby--describe their work.

If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, Sound Unbound is about the remix--how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines between what an artist can do and what a composer can create. In Sound Unbound, Rhythm Science author Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid asks artists to describe their work and compositional strategies in their own words. These are reports from the front lines on the role of sound and digital media in an information-based society. The topics are as diverse as the contributors: composer Steve Reich offers a memoir of his life with technology, from tape loops to video opera; Miller himself considers sampling and civilization; novelist Jonathan Lethem writes about appropriation and plagiarism; science fiction writer Bruce Sterling looks at dead media; Ron Eglash examines racial signifiers in electrical engineering; media activist Naeem Mohaiemen explores the influence of Islam on hip hop; rapper Chuck D contributes andquot;Three Piecesandquot;; musician Brian Eno explores the sound and history of bells; Hans Ulrich Obrist and Philippe Parreno interview composer-conductor Pierre Boulez; and much more. andquot;Press 'play,'andquot; Miller writes, andquot;and this anthology says 'here goes.'andquot; The groundbreaking mix CD that accompanies the book features Nam Jun Paik, the Dada Movement, John Cage, Sonic Youth, and many other examples of avant-garde music. Most of the CD's content comes from the archives of Sub Rosa, a legendary record label that has been the benchmark for archival sounds since the beginnings of electronic music.

Contributors:
David Allenby, Pierre Boulez, Catherine Corman, Chuck D, Erik Davis, Scott De Lahunta, Manuel DeLanda, Cory Doctorow, Eveline Domnitch, Frances Dyson, Ron Eglash, Brian Eno, Dmitry Gelfand, Dick Hebdige, Lee Hirsch, Vijay Iyer, Ken Jordan, Douglas Kahn, Daphne Keller, Beryl Korot, Jaron Lanier, Joseph Lanza, Jonathan Lethem, Carlo McCormick, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, Moby, Naeem Mohaiemen, Alondra Nelson, Keith and Mendi Obadike, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Pauline Oliveros, Philippe Parreno, Ibrahim Quraishi, Steve Reich, Simon Reynolds, Scanner aka Robin Rimbaud, Nadine Robinson, Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), Alex Steinweiss, Bruce Sterling, Lucy Walker, Saul Williams, Jeff E. Winner.

Special thanks for Editorial Assistance to Roy Christopher.

Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician living and working in New York City. His artwork has appeared in the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennale for Architecture, the Andy Warhol Museum, and many other venues. His written work has appeared in such publications as the Village Voice and Artforum.<Rhythm Science (MIT Press, 2004).