This book present a series of chapters, written by distinguished composers and/or theorists who have worked in the field of electroacoustic music. Each chapter presents a detailed structural analysis of an electroacoustic tape work:
- Gesang der Jünglinge - Karlheinz Stockhausen (1955/1956)
- Diamorphoses - Iannis Xenakis (1957)
- Essay - Gottfried Michael Koenig (1957/1958)
- Omaggio a Emilio Vedova - Luigi Nono (1960)
- Telemusik - Karlheinz Stockhausen (1966)
- Terpsichore - Otto Laske (1980)
- Contours - Jan Claude Risset (1982)
- Sequence of Symbols - James Dashow (1984)
- A Study in White - Joji Yuasa (1987)