Richard Vella

Sounds In Space, Sounds In Time

Sounds in Space, Sounds in Time is a ground-breaking exploration of the world of sound and music. Particularly useful as a resource for secondary and tertiary level teachers, it is a thought-provoking journey in listening, improvising and composing for anyone who wants to understand music better.
Richard Vella guides the reader through an acoustic landscape that knows no boundaries. The accompanying CD draws together a vast variety of sounds from ambient noise through to rock and roll, taking in jazz, classical, folk, world and contemporary music on the way. Activities and projects provide a stimulus for creativity and further understanding.
'Sounds in Space, Sounds in Time' is easy to use in any context, whatever the level of musical experience. It is an essential resource for classroom or university teaching and a source of inspiration for musicians, composers and sound designers. In fact, it makes fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in the sounds of music.
Richard Vella is an award-winning composer and has advised many universities in Australia on music education.

'Bulging with ideas, a splendid resource for teachers of secondary class music. Here is a text that could truly revitalise your teaching.'
(Queensland Journal of Music Education)

'Sounds in Space, Sounds in Time' is more than just another visionary approach or good idea - it's been the basis of a university course, delivered and refined over five years... It has given me ideas and I think it deserves to be widely used'
(Michael Barkl, Sounds Australian)