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In the Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art Seth Kim-Cohen An ear-opening reassessment of sonic art from World War II to the present Marcel Duchamp famously championed a “non-retinal” visual art, rejecting judgments of taste and beauty.…
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Electronic and Experimental Music: Foundations of New Music and New Listening (Media and Popularculture) Thom Holmes Electronic and Experimental Music is a second edition of a well-known text on the history of electronic music. Holmes’ original book, first published in…
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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…
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Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction Caleb Kelly From the mid-twentieth century into the twenty-first, artists and musicians manipulated, cracked, and broke audio media technologies to produce novel sounds and performances. Artists and musicians, including John Cage, Nam June Paik,…
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Avant-Garde Theatre Sound: Staging Sonic Modernity Adrian Curtin Sound experimentation by avant-garde theatre artists of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries is an important but largely ignored aspect of theatre history. In this book, Curtin shows how attention to this activity…
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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…