noise
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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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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…
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Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond Hillel Schwartz When did the “silent deeps” become cacophonous and galaxies begin to swim in a sea of cosmic noise? Why do we think that noises have colors and that…
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The Art of Noise: Destruction of Music By Futurist Machines Luigi Russolo The music and noise manifestos of the Italian Futurists formed a blueprint for sonic warfare waged against traditionalism, a radical new agenda played out with machines primed for…
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Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation (Sign, Storage, Transmission) David Novak Noise, an underground music made through an amalgam of feedback, distortion, and electronic effects, first emerged as a genre in the 1980s, circulating on cassette tapes traded between…
