Listening through the noise : the aesthetics of experimental electronic music /

Contemporary electronic music has splintered into a dizzying assortment of genres & subgenres, communities & subcultures. Given the ideological differences among academic, popular & avant-garde electronic musicians, is it possible to derive an aesthetic theory that accounts for this vari...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Demers, Joanna Teresa, 1975- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:	Electronic music > History and criticism. Avant-garde (Music) Music > Philosophy and aesthetics. Music and technology. Musique expérimentale. Musique > Philosophie et esthétique. Musique et technologie. MUSIC > Musical Instruments > Piano & Keyboard. Electronic music Music and technology Music > Philosophy and aesthetics Elektronische Musik. Musikästhetik. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Sign. Listening to signs in post-Schaefferian electroacoustic music ; Material as sign in electronica
Object. Minimal objects in microsound ; Maximal objects in drone music, dub techno, and noise
Situation. Site in ambient, soundscape, and field recordings ; Genre, experimentalism, and the musical frame.