PUSH TURN MOVE - Interface Design in Electronic Music

by Kim Bjørn

Meet the creators and their instruments, and learn how they have shaped the world of electronic music.

PUSH TURN MOVE contains 352 pages richly illustrated with photos, illustrations, and prototypes, and with a foreword by electronic music visionary Jean-Michel Jarre.

The book celebrates the art and science of interface design in electronic music by exploring the functional, artistic, philosophical, and aesthetic worlds within the mysterious link between player and machine.

45 exclusive interviews with artists, designers, and makers:

Including Imogen Heap, Dorit Chrysler, Suzanne Ciani, Richard Devine, DiViNCi, Laura Escudé, Ean Golden, Axel Hartmann, Larry Heard, Roger Linn, Keith McMillen, Moldover, Jordan Rudess, Dave Smith, Tatsuya Takahashi, and others, along with well-known music industry brands like Ableton, Arturia, DJ TechTools, Elektron, Korg, Make Noise, monome, Moog, Native Instruments, Novation, Propellerhead, Roland, Teenage Engineering, and Yamaha.

Dive into the ideas behind music gear like synthesizers, drum machines, sequencers, DJ equipment, DAWs, and iOS apps. Explore sections on design principles, control elements, visualization of sound, and concepts such as grids, MPC, multitouch, modular, and much more. PUSH TURN MOVE is the very first book of its kind.

Genres: Music, Design, Nonfiction

Reviews

[Marc · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite lighter on theory than I expected - large parts read more as extended sales prose - and the interviews are often a bit too short to be really interesting. All this doesn't really matter, though, because we are still talking a full cofee table book of glorious synthesizer porn, and are you, like me, into these kind of things, it is a trip and a treat!

[Marek Farebny · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stunning voyage into the design and usage of electronic instruments. Rather than categorizing them by function, the book focuses on the overarching commonalities and digs deep into each of the components - Sound, Control, Layout, Concept, User, Time (or History). Each chapter provides numerous examples, detailed pictures, use-cases and interviews with famous users of such instruments.
Must-have for anyone interested in synthesizers, electronic music or music production.

[Nicholas Why · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful and high quality coffee table book on everything related to electronic music. The well taken and gorgeous pix are worth the price of admission. I even bought a few instruments just from reading about them here.

[Benas · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a synth gerk and design person I give 5/5, greta book!