And this link takes you to the internet archive library where you can read the book of George Perle, Serial composition and atonality.

This book describes diverse technics to compose with the twelve notes of the octave simultaneously, avoiding the tonal framework, that were in use at the begining of the twentieth century.

And because guitare is important too, and because this is a book that is based on another key book of the twentieth century...

To put some perspective, a little bit of history of chinese music. Quite atonishing,
you realize that some musical objects are centuries older than you think.

@oid

@Il-pleut That looks great and I was even able to find a copy with a sane price, most copies were $100-250 and there were not many to choose from. I do like Malagasy music quite a bit, especially D'Gary whose guitar playing is infuriatingly difficult to figure out. I have really been trying hard to not buy more books and you are making that difficult, already got me to buy two and there are a few which I am rather tempted by.

To continue the american century,
those three :

ho and....

And if you think the world is better without boundaries, that's ok but the shock can be real :

And to illustrate, a fantastic piece from Stockhausen, microtonal, for flute :

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@Il-pleut damn, just when I thought I was "over" Stockhausen... that piece is great!

1953, on Elektronische studie 1 from Stockausen :

"In shaping the band by hand, he ( Stockausen) is adapting a technic known to optical sound in the film industry, by wich the the strenght of the audible signal varies directly in proportion to the area of tape passing the playback head. "

Robin Maconie

And now a pair of composers who have scored just so many films and be so modern each in his own way.

This one that I barely understand so far. But I will try intul it's done. Mikro-ton theory.
Cyclical and linear nature of the pitch.

When you start to write letters in the style of Benjamin Britten

And I'm gonna stop there, I think...

@Il-pleut said:

And I'm gonna stop there, I think...

My checking account will be happy about that.

@oid , @everybody , Last advice, when you read a book, try to read 2 or 3, or 4 books speaking of the same subject. By another author, one book older, one more recent, one in another language or at least translated, one from another country.

@Il-pleut thats a nice advice Thanks for the books and their pictures...

Maybe the concepts of design are keys to create a music based on synthetic sounds.

Thinking with lines, shapes, numbers and colors helps navigate the never ending possibilities of a software like Pure data.

Harmony, melody and rythme can be insufficient when anything can be organised with such wide liberty.

Modes can appear everywhere, relations between harmonics and shapes can come out of places that used to be desertic.

Materials and dimensions, utility and necessity, drag creation in other directions.

A couple which I have just come across and am looking forward too.

Berio's Sequenzas Essays on Performance, Composition and Analysis
Dhrupad: Tradition and Performance in Indian Music

Sadly the Berio does not include Sequenza 12 for Bassoon, what can you do.