Audio culture : readings in modern music / edited by Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-425) and index.

Includes discography.

Acknowledgments -- Sources and Permissions -- Introduction: Music and the New Audio Culture -- Part 1. Theories -- I. Music and Its Others: Noise, Sound, Silence -- Introduction -- 1. "Noise and Politics" -- 2. "The Art of Noises: Futurist Manifesto" -- 3. "Sound, Noise, Varese, Boulez" -- 4. "The Liberation of Sound" -- 5. "The Joys of Noise" -- 6. "The Future of Music: Credo" -- 7. "The Music of the Environment" -- 8. "Listening for Silence: Notes on the Aural Life" -- 9. "Rough Music, Futurism, and Postpunk Industrial Noise Bands" -- 10. "Noise" -- 11. "The Beauty of Noise: An Interview with Masami Akita of Merzbow" -- II. Modes of Listening -- Introduction -- 12. "Visual and Acoustic Space" -- 13. "The Politics of Hearing" -- 14. "Acousmatics" -- 15. "Profound Listening and Environmental Sound Matter" -- 16. "Adequate Modes of Listening" -- 17. "Ambient Music" -- 18. "The Aural Walk" -- 19. "Some Sound Observations" -- 20. "Compose Yourself" -- III. Music in the Age of Electronic (Re)production -- Introduction -- 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" -- Part 2. Practices -- IV. The Open Work -- Introduction -- 26. "The Poetics of the Open Work" -- 27. "Composition as Process: Indeterminacy" -- 28. "Visual Sounds: On Graphic Scores" -- 29. "Transformations and Developments of a Radical Aesthetic" -- 30. "The Game Pieces" -- 31. "Introduction to Catalog of Works" -- V. Experimental Musics -- Introduction -- 32. "Towards (a Definition of) Experimental Music" -- 33. "Introduction to Themes & Variations" -- 34. "Generating and Organizing Variety in the Arts" -- 35. "A Scratch Orchestra: Draft Constitution" -- 36. "The Generation Game: Experimental Music and Digital Culture" -- VI. Improvised Musics -- Introduction -- 37. "Change of the Century" -- 38. "Free Improvisation" -- 39. "Little Bangs: A Nihilist Theory of Improvisation" -- 40. "Improvised Music After 1950: Afrological and Eurological Perspectives" -- VII. Minimalisms -- Introduction -- 41. "Rap, Minimalism, and Structures of Time in Late Twentieth-Century Culture" -- 42. "Thankless Attempts at a Definition of Minimalism" -- 43. "Music as a Gradual Process" -- 44. "Basic Concepts of Minimal Music" -- 45. "LYssophobia: On Four Violins" -- 46. "Digital Discipline: Minimalism in House and Techno" -- VIII. DJ Culture -- Introduction -- 47. "Production-Reproduction: Potentialities of the Phonograph" -- 48. "The Invisible Generation" -- 49. "Record, CD, Analog, Digital" -- 50. "Algorithms: Erasures and the Art of Memory" -- 51. "Replicant: On Dub" -- 52. "Post-Rock" -- IX. Electronic Music and Electronica -- Introduction -- 53. "Introductory Remarks to a Program of Works Produced at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center" -- 54. "Electronic and Instrumental Music" -- 55. "Stockhausen vs. the 'Technocrats'" -- 56. "Breakthrough Beats: Rhythm and the Aesthetics of Contemporary Electronic Music" -- 57. "The Aesthetics of Failure: 'Post-Digital' Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music" -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Selected Discography -- Selected Bibliography -- Notes for Quotations -- Index.

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