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pt. 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.
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.
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.
pt. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
pt. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.