Audio Culture, Revised Edition: Readings in Modern Music

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction Part One: Theories I. Music and Its Others: Noise, Sound, Silence
• Introduction
• 1. Jacques Attali, "Noise and Politics"
• 2. Luigi Russolo, "The Art of Noises: Futurist Manifesto"
• 3. Edgard Varese, "The Liberation of Sound"
• 4. Henry Cowell, "The Joys of Noise"
• 5. John Cage, "The Future of Music: Credo"
• 6. R. Murray Schafer, "The Music of the Environment"
• 7. Anne Carson, "The Gender of Sound"
• 8. Drew Daniel, "Queer Sound"
• 9. Kevin Quashie, "The Quiet of Blackness: Miles Davis and John Coltrane" II. Modes of Listening
• Introduction
• 10. Marshall McLuhan, "Visual and Acoustic Space"
• 11. Pierre Schaeffer, "Acousmatics"
• 12. Francisco Lopez, "Profound Listening and Environmental Sound Matter"
• 13. Brian Eno, "Ambient Music"
• 14. Pauline Oliveros, "Auralizing the Sonosphere"
• 15. Maryanne Amacher, "Perceptual Geography: Third Ear Music and Structure Borne Sound"
• 16. Evelyn Glennie, "Hearing Essay"
• 17. Iain Chambers, "The Aural Walk"
• 18. Annahid Kassabian, "Ubiquitous Listening"
• 19. Lawrence Abu Hamdan, "Forensic Listening"
• 20. Ultra-red, "Organizing the Silence" III. Music in the Age of Electronic Reproduction
• Introduction
• 21. Glenn Gould, "The Prospects of Recording"
• 22. Brian Eno, "The Studio as Compositional Tool"
• 23. John Oswald, "Bettered by the Borrower: The Ethics of Musical Debt"
• 24. Chris Cutler, "Plunderphonia"
• 25. Kodwo Eshun, "Operating System for the Redesign of Sonic Reality"
• 26. Kenneth Goldsmith, "Six File-Sharing Epiphanies"
• 27. Tara Rodgers, "Cultivating Activist Lives in Sound" Part Two: Practices IV. The Open Work
• Introduction
• 28. Umberto Eco, "Poetics of the Open Work"
• 29. John Cage, "Composition as Process: Indeterminacy"
• 30. Christoph Cox, "Every Sound You Can Imagine: On Graphic Scores"
• 31. Earle Brown, "Transformations and Developments of a Radical Aesthetic"
• 32. John Zorn, "The Game Pieces"
• 33. Anthony Braxton, "
• Introduction to Catalog of Works"
• 34. Lawrence "Butch" Morris, "Notes on Conduction" V. Experimental Musics
• Introduction
• 35. Michael Nyman, "Towards (a Definition of) Experimental Music"
• 36. John Cage, "
• Introduction to Themes & Variations"
• 37. Brian Eno, "Generating and Organizing Variety in the Arts"
• 38. Cornelius Cardew, Scratch Music Draft Constitution
• 39. David Toop, "The Generation Game: Experimental Music and Digital Culture"
• 40. Jennifer Walshe on "The New Discipline"
• 41. Yan Jun, "Re-Invent: Experimental Music in China" VI. Improvised Musics
• Introduction
• 42. Ornette Coleman, "Change of the Century"
• 43. Wadada Leo Smith, "Notes (8 Pieces): Creative Music"
• 44. Derek Bailey, "Free Improvisation"
• 45. Frederic Rzewski, "Little Bangs: A Nihilist Theory of Improvisation"
• 46. George E. Lewis, "Improvised Music After 1950: Afrological and Eurological Perspectives"
• 47. Vijay Iyer, "Improvisation: Terms and Conditions"
• 48. Mattin, "Going Fragile"
• 49. Trio Sowari et al., "27 Questions For a Start ... And Some Answers to Begin With" VII. Minimalisms
• Introduction
• 50. Kyle Gann, "Thankless Attempts at a Definition of Minimalism"
• 51. Wim Mertens, "Basic Concepts of Minimal Music"
• 52. Steve Reich, "Music as a Gradual Process"
• 53. La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, "Conversation with Richard Kostelanetz"
• 54. Tony Conrad, "LYssophobia: On Four Violins"
• 55. Susan McClary, "Rap, Minimalism and Structures of Time in Late Twentieth-Century Culture"
• 56. Philip Sherburne, "Draw a Straight Line and Follow It: Minimalism in Contemporary Electronic Dance Music" VIII. DJ Culture
• Introduction
• 57. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, "Production-Reproduction: Potentialities of the Phonograph"
• 58. Situationist International, "Detournement as Negation and Prelude"
• 59. William S. Burroughs, "The Invisible Generation"
• 60. Paul D. Miller, "Algorithms: Erasures and the Art of Memory"
• 61. David Toop, "Replicant: On Dub"
• 62. Simon Reynolds, "Post-Rock"
• 63. Marina Rosenfeld, "A Few Notes on Production and Playback" IX. Electronic Music and Electronica
• Introduction
• 64. Jacques Barzun, "Introductory Remarks to a Program of Works Produced at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center"
• 65. Karlheinz Stockhausen, "Electronic and Instrumental Music"
• 66. Karlheinz Stockhausen et al., "Stockhausen vs. the Technocrats"
• 67. Eliane Radigue, "The Mysterious Power of the Infinitesimal"
• 68. Kim Cascone, "The Aesthetics of Failure: 'Post-Digital' Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music"
• 69. Holly Herndon, "Laptop Intimacy and Platform Politics"
• Bibliography Chronology Discography
• Glossary
• Index of Quotations
• Index