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Index
Half Title
Title Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Sources and Permissions
Introduction to the Revised Edition
Part 1 Theories
I. Music and Its Others: Noise, Sound, Silence
1 “Noise and Politics”
2 “The Art of Noises: Futurist Manifesto”
3 The Liberation of Sound
4 The Joys of Noise
5 The Future of Music: Credo
6 The Music of the Environment
7 The Gender of Sound
8 All Sound Is Queer
9 The Quiet of Blackness: Miles Davis and John Coltrane
II. Modes of Listening
10 Visual and Acoustic Space
11 Acousmatics
12 Profound Listening and Environmental Sound Matter
13 Ambient Music
14 Auralizing the Sonosphere: A Vocabulary for Inner Sound and Sounding
15 Perceptual Geography: Third Ear Music and Structure Borne Sound
16 Hearing Essay
17 The Aural Walk
18 Ubiquitous Listening
19 Forensic Listening
20 Organizing the Silence
III. Music in the Age of Electronic Reproduction
21 The Prospects of Recording
22 The Studio as Compositional Tool
23 Bettered by the Borrower: The Ethics of Musical Debt
24 Plunderphonia
25 Operating System for the Redesign of Sonic Reality
26 Six File-Sharing Epiphanies
27 Cultivating Activist Lives in Sound
Part 2 Practices
IV. The Open Work
28 The Poetics of the Open Work
29 Composition as Process: Indeterminacy
30 Every Sound You Can Imagine: On Graphic Scores
31 Transformations and Developments of a Radical Aesthetic
32 The Game Pieces
33 Introduction to Catalog of Works
34 Notes on Conduction
V. Experimental Musics
35 Towards (a Definition of) Experimental Music
36 Introduction to Themes & Variations
37 Generating and Organizing Variety in the Arts
38 A Scratch Orchestra: Draft Constitution
39 The Generation Game: Experimental Music and Digital Culture
40 The New Discipline
41 RE-INVENT: Experimental Music in China
VI. Improvised Musics
42 Change of the Century
43 Notes (8 Pieces): Creative Music
44 Free Improvisation
45 Little Bangs: A Nihilist Theory of Improvisation
46 Improvised Music after 1950: Afrological and Eurological Perspectives
47 Improvisation: Terms and Conditions
48 Going Fragile
49 27 Questions For A Start … And Some Possible Answers to Begin With
VII. Minimalisms
50 Thankless Attempts at a Definition of Minimalism
51 Basic Concepts of Minimal Music
52 Music as a Gradual Process
53 Conversation with Richard Kostelanetz
54 LYssophobia: On Four Violins
55 Rap, Minimalism, and Structures of Time in Late Twentieth-Century Culture
56 Draw a Straight Line and Follow It: Minimalism in Contemporary Electronic Dance Music
VIII. DJ Culture
57 Production–Reproduction: Potentialities of the Phonograph
58 Détournment as Negation and Prelude
59 The Invisible Generation
60 Algorithms: Erasures and the Art of Memory
61 Replicant: On Dub
62 Post-Rock
63 A Few Notes on Production and Playback
IX. Electronic Music and Electronica
64 Introductory Remarks to a Program of Works Produced at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center
65 Electronic and Instrumental Music
66 Stockhausen vs the “Technocrats”
67 The Mysterious Power of the Infinitesimal
68 The Aesthetics of Failure: “Post-Digital” Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music
69 Laptop Intimacy and Platform Politics
Chronology
Selected Discography
Selected Bibliography
Glossary
Notes to Quotations
Index
Copyright
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