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Listening through the Noise - The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music (Paperback)
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Listening through the Noise - The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music (Paperback)
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Contemporary electronic music has splintered into a dizzying
assortment of genres and subgenres, communities and subcultures.
Given the ideological differences among academic, popular and
avant-garde electronic musicians, is it possible to derive an
aesthetic theory that accounts for this variety? And is there even
a place for aesthetics in twenty-first-century culture? Listening
through the Noise explores genres ranging from techno to
electroacoustic music, from glitch to drone music, and from dub to
drones, and maintains that culturally and historically informed
aesthetic theory is not only possible but indispensable for
understanding electronic music. The abilities of electronic music
to use preexisting sounds and to create new sounds are widely
known. Author Joanna Demers proceeds from this starting point to
consider how electronic music is changing the way we listen not
only to music, but to sound itself. The common trait among all
variants of recent experimental electronic music is a concern with
whether sound, in itself, bears meaning. The use in recent works of
previously undesirable materials like noise, field recordings, and
extremely quiet sounds has contributed to electronic music's
destruction of the "musical frame," the conventions that used to
set apart music from the outside world. In the void created by the
disappearance of the musical frame, different philosophies for
listening have emerged. Some electronic music genres insist upon
the inscrutability and abstraction of sound. Others maintain that
sound functions as a sign pointing to concepts or places beyond the
work. But all share an approach towards listening that departs
fundamentally from the expectations that have governed music
listening in the West for the previous five centuries.
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