Peter Maxwell Davies's obituary by Margalit Fox, "Peter Maxwell Davies, Contrarian British Composer, Dies at 81" New York Times, March 14, 2016, available via nytimes.com
Kagel's Ludwig Van, film. The section showing the room covered in music starts at 25:35. Video on YouTube.
John Zorn and Naked City perform Speedfreaks. Video on YouTube.
Jonathan Sterne's webpage. Contains links to his scholarly work on sound studies, mp3s, and other recording technologies. sterneworks.org.
Other composers to explore
George Benjamin (b. 1960 ) listen to his opera Written on the Skin (2012). Excerpt available on YouTube.
Additional Readings
Bijsterveld, Karin and José van Dijck. Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory and Cultural Practices (Amsterdam University Press, 2009).
Katz, Mark. “Music in 1s and 0s: the Art and Politics of Sampling, ” in Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004), 137-157.
Kutschke, Beata and Barley Norton. Music and Protest in 1968. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Miller, Kiri. “Jacking the Dial: Radio, Race, and Place in Grand Theft Auto,” Ethnomusicology 51(3): 402-438.
Oja, Carol. Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Williams, Alastair. Music in Germany Since 1968. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.