Part One. The philosophy and aesthetics of noise: A chronic condition: noise and time / Paul Hegarty -- Amusia, noise and the drive: towards a theory of the audio unconscious / Scott Wilson -- Floating the social: an electronic art of noise / Brian Massumi -- The noise paradigm / Cecile Malaspina -- Mongrel vibrations: H. P. Lovecraft's Weird Ecology of Noise / Dean Lockwood -- The matter of numbers: sound technologies and the experience of noise according to analogue and digital models / José Cláudio Siqueria Castanheira -- Part Two. Audiovisual noise practices: 'As if from the sky': divine and secular dramaturgies of noise / Benjamin Halligan -- Physical spectatorship: noise and rape in Irreversible / Laura Wilson -- Cinematic tinnitus / Robert Walker -- Sshhh / Daniel Cookney -- Thunder and lightning: noise, aesthetics and audio-visual avant-garde practice / Rob Gawthrop -- Sound manifesto: Lee Ranaldo's notes for Robert Smithson / Felicity J. Colman -- Part Three Noise, ethics and politics: Anti-self: experience-less noise / GegenSichKollektiv -- Music for cyborgs: the affect and ethics of noise music / Marie Thompson -- What is noise? An inquiry into its formal properties / Saeed Hydaralli -- Considering sound: reflecting on the language, meaning and entailments of noise / Khadijah White -- Exploding the atmosphere: realizing the revolutionary potential of 'the last street song' / Bruce Russell