Listening through the noise
Subtitle: the aesthetics of experimental electronic music
By: Joanna Demers.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780195387650; 9780195387667
Subjects: Electronic music -- History and criticism; Avant-garde (Music); Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics; Music and technology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sign. Listening to signs in post-Schaefferian electroacoustic music ; Material as sign in electronica; title: Object. Minimal objects in microsound ; Maximal objects in drone music, dub techno, and noise; title: Situation. Site in ambient, soundscape, and field recordings ; Genre, experimentalism, and the musical frame.