Audio culture : readings in modern music / edited by Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner.

Includes discography, bibliographical references, and index

Part 1. Theories. I. Music and its others : noise, sound, silence. Noise and politics / Jacques Attali -- The art of noises : futurist manifesto / Luigi Russolo -- Sound, noise, Varèse, Boulez / Morton Feldman -- 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 -- Listening for silence : notes on the aural life / Mark Slouka -- Rough music, futurism, and postpunk industrial noise bands / Mary Russo and Daniel Warner -- Noise / Simon Reynolds -- The beauty of noise : an interview with Masami Akita of Merzbow

Part 1. Theories. II. Modes of listening. Visual and acoustic space / Marshall McLuhan -- The politics of hearing / Hanns Eisler & Theodor Adorno -- Acousmatics / Pierre Schaeffer -- Profound listening and environmental sound matter / Francisco López -- Adequate modes of listening / Ola Stockfelt -- Ambient music / Brian Eno -- The aural walk / Iain Chambers -- Some sound observations / Pauline Oliveros -- Compose yourself / J.K. Randall

Part 1. Theories. III. Music in the age of electronic reproduction. 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

Part 2. Practices. IV. The open work. The poetics of the open work / Umberto Eco -- Composition as process : indeterminacy / John Cage -- Visual sounds : on graphic scores / Christoph Cox -- Transformations and developments of a radical aesthetic / Earle Brown -- The game pieces / John Zorn -- Introduction to Catalog of works / Anthony Braxton

Part 2. Practices. V. Experimental musics. Towards (a definition of) experimental music / Michael Nyman -- Introduction to Themes & variations / John Cage -- Generating and organizing variety in the arts / Brian Eno -- A scratch orchestra : draft constitution / Cornelius Cardew -- The generation game : experimental music and digital culture / David Toop

Part 2. Practices. VI. Improvised musics. Change of the century / Ornette Coleman -- Free improvisation / Derek Bailey -- Little bangs : a nihilist theory of improvisation / Frederic Rzewski -- Improvised music after 1950 : afrological and eurological perspectives / George E. Lewis

Part 2. Practices. VII. Minimalisms. Rap, minimalism and structures of time in late twentieth-century culture / Susan McClary -- Thankless attempts at a definition of minimalism / Kyle Gann -- Music as a gradual process / Steve Reich -- Basic concepts of minimal music / Wim Mertens -- LYssophobia : on Four violins / Tony Conrad -- Digital discipline : minimalism in house and techno / Philip Sherburne

Part 2. Practices. VIII. DJ Culture. Production-reproduction : potentialities of the phonograph / László Moholy-Nagy -- The invisible generation / William S. Burroughs -- Record, CD, analog, digital / Christian Marclay & Yasunao Tone -- Algorithms : erasures and the art of memory / Paul D. Miller -- Replicant : on dub / David Toop -- Post-rock / Simon Reynolds

Part 2. Practices. IX. Electronic music and electronica. 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. -- Breakthrough beats : rhythm and the aesthetics of contemporary electronic music / Ben Neill -- The aesthetics of failure : 'post-digital' tendencies in contemporary computer music / Kim Cascone

Over the past few decades, a new audio culture has emerged, a culture of making and thinking about music and sound that disregards conventional categories and oppositions still operative in the academy and the mainstream music industry alike. Via writings by key philosophers, cultural theorists and composers, this book explores the interconnections among such forms as Minimalism, Indeterminacy, musique concrete, Improvised music, the Classical avant garde, Experimental music, Avant-Rock, Dub reggae, Ambient music, Hip hop, and Techno. They demonstrate the way these musics constantly cross-pollinate each other, transgressing generic boundaries, and how contemporary composers, producers, and musicians now work within complex networks of association and influence

X Lovordande recension i Nutida musik 2005:1, s. 56-57