Audio Culture, Revised Edition: Readings in Modern Music [Revised edition] 9781501318351, 9781501318368, 9781501318382, 9781501318375, 3145312502, 1501318357, 1501318365

Table of contents :
Theories. I. Music and its others: noise, sound, silence. Introduction
Noise and politics / Jacques Attali
The art of noises : futurist manifesto / Luigi Russolo
The liberation of sound / Edgard Varèse
The joys of noise / Henry Cowell
The future of music : credo / John Cage
The music of the environment / R. Murray Schafer
The gender of sound / Anne Carson
Queer sound / Drew Daniel
The quiet of blackness : Miles Davis and John Coltrane / Kevin Quashie --
II. Modes of listening. Introduction
Visual and acoustic space / Marhsall McLuhan
Acousmatics / Pierre Schaeffer
Profund listening and environmental sound matter / Francisco López
Ambient music / Brian Eno
Auralizing the sonosphere : a vocabulary for inner sound and sounding / Pauline Oliveros
Perceptual geography : third ear music and structure borne sound / Maryanne Amacher
Hearing essay / Evelyn Glennie
The aural walk / Iain Chambers
Ubiquitous listening / Annahid Kassabian
Forensic listening / Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Organizing the silence / Ulta-red --
III. Music in the age of electronic reproduction. Introduction
The prospects of recording / Glenn Gould
The studio as compositional tool / Brian Eno
Bettered by the borrower : the ethics of musical debt / John Oswald
Plunderphonia / Chris Cutler
Operating system for the redesign of sonic reality / Kodwo Eshun
Six file-sharing epiphanies / Kenneth Goldsmith
Cultivating activist lives in sound / Tara Rodgers --
Practices. IV. The open work. Introduction
Poetics of the open work / Umberto Eco
Composition as process : indeterminacy / John Cage
Every sound you can imagine : on graphic scores / Christoph Cox
Transformations and developments of a radical aesthetics / Earle Brown
The game pieces / John Zorn
Introduction to Catalog of works / Anthony Braxton
Notes on conduction / Lawrence "Butch" Morris --
V. Experimental musics. Introduction
Towards (a definition of) experimental music / Michael Nyman
Introduction to Themes & variations / John Cage
Generating and organizing variety in the arts / Brian Eno
Scratch music draft constitution / Cornelius Cardew
The generation game : experimental music and digital culture / David Toop
The new discipline / Jennifer Walshe
Re-invent : experimetnal music in China / Yan Jun --
VI. Improvised musics. Introduction
Change of the century / Ornette Coleman
Notes (8 pieces) : creative music / Wadada Leo Smith
Free improvisation / Derek Bailey
Little bangs : a nihilist theory of improvisation / Frederic Rzewski
Improvised music after 1950 : afrological and eurological perspectives / George E. Lewis
Improvisation : terms and conditions / Vijay Iyer
Going fragile / Mattin
27 questions for a start ... and some answers to begin with / Trio Sowari et al. --
VII. Minimalisms. Introduction
Thankless attempts at a definition of minimalism / Kyle Gann
Basic concepts of minimal music / Wim Mertens
Musical as a gradual process / Steve Reich
Conversation with Richard Kostelanetz / La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela
LYssophobia : on Four violines / Tony Conrad
Rap, minimalism and structures in time in late twentieth-century culture / Susan McClary
Draw a straight line and follow it : minimalism in contemporary electronic dance music / Philip Sherburne --
VIII. DJ Culture. Introduction
Production-Reproduction : potentialities of the phonograph / László Moholy-Nagy
Détournement as negation and prelude / Situationist International
The invisible generation / William S. Burroughs
Algorithms : erasures and the art of memory / Paul D. Miller
Replicant : David Toop
Post-rock / Simon Reynolds
A few notes on production and playback / Marina Rosenfeld --
IX. Electronic music and electronica. Introduction
Introductory remarks to a program of works produced at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center / Jacques Barzun
Electronic and instrumental music / Karlheinz Stockhausen
Stockhausen vs the technocrats / Karlheinz Stockhausen et al.
The mysterious power of the infiniteimal / Elaine Radigue
The aesthetics of failure : post-digital tendencies in contemporary computer music / Kim Cascone
Laptop intimacy and platform politics / Holly Herndon.

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