Makis Solomos was born in Greece and now lives in France, working as Professor of Musicology at the Université Paris 8 and as director of the research team MUSIDANSE. He has published many books and articles about new music, and he is one of the main international specialists of Xenakis’ music. Extending this book, he is now developing the frameworks for an ecology of sound and music.

'…compelling…a significant contribution to…both Musicology and Sound Studies…the ultimate value of Solomos’ work is that it provides a centralized location for the ideas of the theorist-practitioners who aimed to reframe their labor as sound creation.' Kevin John Bozelka, Sound Studies, Volume 7, Issue 1 (2021)'Without agreeing with everything […] I really appreciate Makis Solomos' thesis-based music history of the long 20th century, because it provides both an overview of compositional directions and detailed analyses, it organizes both theoretical and aesthetic debates […] and it develops both a thesis and its implications.' Julia H Schroëder, Journal of the German Musicological Society, Volume 73, Issue 4, (January 2020)

• Chapter 1. On timbre Chapter 2. On Noise Chapter 3. Listening (sounds) Chapter 4. Immersion in soundChapter 5. Composing sound Chapter 6. Sound-space

Makis Solomos was born in Greece and now lives in France, working as Professor of Musicology at the Université Paris 8 and as director of the research team MUSIDANSE. He has published many books and articles about new music, and he is one of the main international specialists of Xenakis’ music. Extending this book, he is now developing the frameworks for an ecology of sound and music.

'…compelling…a significant contribution to…both Musicology and Sound Studies…the ultimate value of Solomos’ work is that it provides a centralized location for the ideas of the theorist-practitioners who aimed to reframe their labor as sound creation.' Kevin John Bozelka, Sound Studies, Volume 7, Issue 1 (2021)'Without agreeing with everything […] I really appreciate Makis Solomos' thesis-based music history of the long 20th century, because it provides both an overview of compositional directions and detailed analyses, it organizes both theoretical and aesthetic debates […] and it develops both a thesis and its implications.' Julia H Schroëder, Journal of the German Musicological Society, Volume 73, Issue 4, (January 2020)

• Chapter 1. On timbre Chapter 2. On Noise Chapter 3. Listening (sounds) Chapter 4. Immersion in soundChapter 5. Composing sound Chapter 6. Sound-space

Makis Solomos was born in Greece and now lives in France, working as Professor of Musicology at the Université Paris 8 and as director of the research team MUSIDANSE. He has published many books and articles about new music, and he is one of the main international specialists of Xenakis’ music. Extending this book, he is now developing the frameworks for an ecology of sound and music.

'…compelling…a significant contribution to…both Musicology and Sound Studies…the ultimate value of Solomos’ work is that it provides a centralized location for the ideas of the theorist-practitioners who aimed to reframe their labor as sound creation.' Kevin John Bozelka, Sound Studies, Volume 7, Issue 1 (2021)'Without agreeing with everything […] I really appreciate Makis Solomos' thesis-based music history of the long 20th century, because it provides both an overview of compositional directions and detailed analyses, it organizes both theoretical and aesthetic debates […] and it develops both a thesis and its implications.' Julia H Schroëder, Journal of the German Musicological Society, Volume 73, Issue 4, (January 2020)

• Chapter 1. On timbre Chapter 2. On Noise Chapter 3. Listening (sounds) Chapter 4. Immersion in soundChapter 5. Composing sound Chapter 6. Sound-space