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Acknowledgments | |
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Sources and Permissions | |
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Introduction: Music and the New Audio Culture | |
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Theories | |
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Music and Its Others: Noise, Sound, Silence | |
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Introduction | |
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"Noise and Politics" | |
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"The Art of Noises: Futurist Manifesto" | |
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"Sound, Noise, Varese, Boulez" | |
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"The Liberation of Sound" | |
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"The Joys of Noise" | |
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"The Future of Music: Credo" | |
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"The Music of the Environment" | |
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"Listening for Silence: Notes on the Aural Life" | |
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"Rough Music, Futurism, and Postpunk Industrial Noise Bands" | |
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"Noise" | |
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"The Beauty of Noise: An Interview with Masami Akita of Merzbow" | |
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Modes of Listening | |
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Introduction | |
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"Visual and Acoustic Space" | |
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"The Politics of Hearing" | |
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"Acousmatics" | |
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"Profound Listening and Environmental Sound Matter" | |
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"Adequate Modes of Listening" | |
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"Ambient Music" | |
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"The Aural Walk" | |
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"Some Sound Observations" | |
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"Compose Yourself" | |
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Music in the Age of Electronic (Re)production | |
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Introduction | |
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"The Prospects of Recording" | |
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"The Studio as Compositional Tool" | |
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"Bettered by the Borrower: The Ethics of Musical Debt" | |
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"Plunderphonia" | |
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"Operating System for the Redesign of Sonic Reality" | |
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Practices | |
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The Open Work | |
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Introduction | |
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"The Poetics of the Open Work" | |
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"Composition as Process: Indeterminacy" | |
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"Visual Sounds: On Graphic Scores" | |
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"Transformations and Developments of a Radical Aesthetic" | |
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"The Game Pieces" | |
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"Introduction to Catalog of Works" | |
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Experimental Musics | |
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Introduction | |
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"Towards (a Definition of) Experimental Music" | |
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"Introduction to Themes & Variations" | |
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"Generating and Organizing Variety in the Arts" | |
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"A Scratch Orchestra: Draft Constitution" | |
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"The Generation Game: Experimental Music and Digital Culture" | |
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Improvised Musics | |
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Introduction | |
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"Change of the Century" | |
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"Free Improvisation" | |
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"Little Bangs: A Nihilist Theory of Improvisation" | |
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"Improvised Music After 1950: Afrological and Eurological Perspectives" | |
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Minimalisms | |
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Introduction | |
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"Rap, Minimalism, and Structures of Time in Late Twentieth-Century Culture" | |
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"Thankless Attempts at a Definition of Minimalism" | |
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"Music as a Gradual Process" | |
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"Basic Concepts of Minimal Music" | |
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"LYssophobia: On Four Violins" | |
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"Digital Discipline: Minimalism in House and Techno" | |
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DJ Culture | |
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Introduction | |
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"Production-Reproduction: Potentialities of the Phonograph" | |
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"The Invisible Generation" | |
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"Record, CD, Analog, Digital" | |
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"Algorithms: Erasures and the Art of Memory" | |
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"Replicant: On Dub" | |
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"Post-Rock" | |
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Electronic Music and Electronica | |
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Introduction | |
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"Introductory Remarks to a Program of Works Produced at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center" | |
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"Electronic and Instrumental Music" | |
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"Stockhausen vs. the 'Technocrats'" | |
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"Breakthrough Beats: Rhythm and the Aesthetics of Contemporary Electronic Music" | |
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"The Aesthetics of Failure: 'Post-Digital' Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music" | |
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Chronology | |
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Glossary | |
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Selected Discography | |
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Selected Bibliography | |
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Notes for Quotations | |
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Index | |