aesthetics
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Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories Alan Licht Over the past century, an art form has emerged that draws from the worlds of visual art and music. Sound art’s roots can be found in the experimental work of Italian Futurism,…
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Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art Brandon LaBelle Background Noise follows the development of sound as an artistic medium and illustrates how sound is put to use within modes of composition, installation, and performance. While chronological in its structure, Brandon…
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Microsound Curtis Roads Below the level of the musical note lies the realm of microsound, of sound particles lasting less than one-tenth of a second. Recent technological advances allow us to probe and manipulate these pinpoints of sound, dissolving the…
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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…
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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,…
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Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama Neil Verma For generations, fans and critics have characterized classic American radio drama as a “theater of the mind.” This book unpacks that characterization by recasting the radio play as an…