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Loading the Silence: Australian Sound Art in the Post-Digital Age (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Loading the Silence: Australian Sound Art in the Post-Digital Age (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The experimentalist phenomenon of 'noise' as constituting 'art' in
much twentieth-century music (paradoxically) reached its zenith in
Cage's ('silent' piece) 4'33 . But much post-1970s musical
endeavour with an experimentalist telos, collectively known as
'sound art', has displayed a postmodern need to 'load' modernism's
'degree zero'. After contextualizing experimentalism from its
inception in the early twentieth century, Dr Linda Kouvaras's
Loading the Silence: Australian Sound Art in the Post-Digital Age
explores the ways in which selected sound art works demonstrate
creatively how sound is embedded within local, national, gendered
and historical environments. Taking Australian music as its primary
- but not sole - focus, the book not only covers discussions of
technological advancement, but also engages with aesthetic
standpoints, through numerous interviews, theoretical developments,
analysis and cultural milieux for a contemporary Australian, and
wider postmodern, context. Developing new methodologies for
synergies between musicology and cultural studies, the book
uncovers a new post-postmodern aesthetic trajectory, which Kouvaras
locates as developing over the past two decades - the altermodern.
Australian sound art is here put firmly on the map of international
debates about contemporary music, providing a standard reference
and valuable resource for practitioners in the artform, music
critics, scholars and educators.
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