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Listening and Voice: Phenomenologies of Sound Don Ihde New and expanded edition of the now classic study in the phenomenology of sound. Listening and Voice is an updated and expanded edition of Don Ihde’s groundbreaking 1976 classic in the study of sound. Ranging from the…
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Noise Matters: Towards an Ontology of Noise Greg Hainge Everyone knows what noise is. Or do they? Can we in fact say that one man’s noise is another teenager’s music? Is noise in fact only an auditory phenomenon or does it extend far beyond this…
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Boring Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and The Aesthetics of Failure Eldritch Priest Boring Formless Nonsense intervenes in an aesthetics of failure that has largely been delimited by the visual arts and its avant-garde legacies. It focuses on contemporary experimental composition in which failure rubs elbows with…
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Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond (Music in the Twentieth Century) Michael Nyman Michael Nyman’s book is a first-hand account of experimental music from 1950 to 1970. First published in 1974, it has remained the classic text on a significant form of music making and composing…
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Listening through the Noise: The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music Joanna Demers Electronic music since 1980 has splintered into a dizzying assortment of genres and subgenres, communities and subcultures. Given the ideological differences among academic, popular, and avant-garde electronic musicians, is it possible to derive…
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Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound Tara Rodgers Pink Noises brings together twenty-four interviews with women in electronic music and sound cultures, including club and radio DJs, remixers, composers, improvisers, instrument builders, and installation and performance artists. The collection is an extension of…
