PUSH TURN MOVE - Interface Design in Electronic Music

by Kim Bjørn

NEW Updated 2021-version with stunning new print and paper quality! Featuring more than 30 new or updated instruments — including the Polyend Tracker, the new Haken Continuum models, ASM Hydrasynth, Sensel Morph, Novation Launchpad X, and many others.

Mankind touches music technology
PUSH TURN MOVE is an utterly unique and unprecedented book. Beautiful pictures, insightful essays, and fascinating interviews teach how electronic musical instruments are designed for the special needs of the most expressive, lyrical, and demanding things in the music world: human beings.

- Hundreds of electronic instruments going back over 100 years
- Over 45 interviews with designers and artists
- Dozens of essays and diagrams showing the beauty of instrument design
- Foreword by world-famous electronic artist Jean-Michel Jarre
- 352 colorful pages printed on high-quality, certified-ecofriendly paper
- Hardcover format (9.8" x 9.8" / 25 x 25 cm)

PUSH TURN MOVE features hundreds of photos and diagrams, dozens of interviews with designers and artists, and eye-opening essays on history, philosophy, design, and user experience. With clear writing and stunning photography, it builds a bridge between abstract design concepts and the feelings we have when we touch our music... between technology and humanity. Science, engineering, passion, and inspiration come together in a unique look at the special bond between instrument and player. PUSH TURN MOVE is a love letter from human to machine that has to be experienced to be believed.

Genres: Music, Design, Nonfiction

352 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2021

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!