After Sound by Barrett, G. Douglas -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half-Title Title Contents Introduction

Music After Sound Whither Criticality? Sound Art? Toward a Critical Music Silence and Collectivity Language and Authority Speculation and Sense Music After Art

Part 1 Silence and Collectivity

1 The Limits of Performing Cage: Ultra-red’s SILENT|LISTEN

Introduction: SILENT|LISTEN Authentic Appropriation “Silence Equals Death” Appropriating Indeterminacy Performing Silence

2 The Silent Network: The Music of Wandelweiser

Introduction: 2010 1 Two Beginnings: A Silent Music Contest, a “Free Sex” Commune Reconnecting Cage

Part 2 Language and Authority

3 “IDEAS MATTER”: Žižek Sings Pussy Riot

Introduction: A Punk Prayer “Conceptual artists in the noblest sense of the word . . .” Ideas (and) Matter Conceptual Art and the Threat: (Art as) Idea as Matter Composing Conceptual Art: Baldessari Sings LeWitt The Matter(ing) of Absolute Music Žižek Sings Pussy Riot Materialist Conceptualism: Composing Ideas that Matter

4 Music to the Letter: Noise, Language, and the Letter from Schoenberg

Introduction: Music Without Sounds Between Noise and Language Music to the Letter

Part 3 Speculation and Sense

5 The Debt of Philosophy: Music, Speculation, and The Sound of Debt

Introduction: Music, Debt, Materialism The Debt 2 Space Program Materialism: Science, Education, (Social) Practice The Poverty of Sound Art Theory (or the Debt of Sound) Contingent Speculation: Chance versus Practice in Meillassoux

6 The Metaphoricity of Sense: Hong-Kai Wang’s Music While We Work—with Lindsey Lodhie

Introduction: From Scene to Sense Reworking Ideology: Ocular Obscura or Acoustic Lucida? “Hearing Things Through Things”: Music with a Movie Camera The Mask of Metaphor The Scene of Sense: Time

Conclusion

Music After Art Desperate Times: To Valerie Solanas Exit Signs and Afterthoughts Time After Time

Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index Copyright