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Noise in and as Music


Noise in and as Music

Paperback by Cassidy, Aaron; Einbond, Aaron

Noise in and as Music

£30.00

ISBN:
9781862181182
Publication Date:
1 Oct 2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
University of Huddersfield
Pages:
238 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 21 - 22 May 2024
Noise in and as Music

Description

One hundred years after Luigi Russolos The Art of Noises, this book exposes a cross-section of the current motivations, activities, thoughts, and reflections of composers, performers, and artists who work with noise in all of its many forms. The books focus is the practice of noise and its relationship to music, and in particular the role of noise as musical material -- as form, as sound, as notation or interface, as a medium for listening, as provocation, as data. Its contributors are first and foremost practitioners, which inevitably turns attention toward how and why noise is made and its potential role in listening and perceiving. Contributors include Peter Ablinger, Sebastian Berweck, Aaron Cassidy, Marko Ciciliani, Nick Collins, Aaron Einbond, Matthias Haenisch, Alec Hall, Martin Iddon, Bryan Jacobs, Phil Julian, Michael Maierhof, Joan Arnau Pámies, and James Whitehead (JLIAT). The book also features a collection of short responses to a two-question interview -- what is noise (music) to you? and why do you make it? -- by some of the leading musicians working with noise today. Their work spans a wide range of artistic practice, including instrumental, vocal, and electronic music; improvisation; notated composition; theater; sound installation; DIY; and software development. Interview subjects include Eryck Abecassis, Franck Bedrossian, Antoine Chessex, Ryan Jordan, Alice Kemp (Germseed), George Lewis, Lasse Marhaug, Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje, Diemo Schwarz, Ben Thigpen, Kasper Toeplitz, and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay.

Contents

Introduction; Aaron Cassidy and Aaron Einbond; Black Square and Bottle Rack: noise and noises; Un-sounding Music: noise is not sound; Noise and the Voice: exploring the thresholds of vocal transgression; Subtractive Synthesis: noise and digital (un)creativity; Noise Music Information Retrieval; Inside Famas House: listening, intimacy, and the noises of the body; We Need You To Play Some Music; Beyond Pitch Organization: an interview with Michael Maierhof; Materiality and Agency in Improvisation: Andrea Neumanns Inside Piano; Noise-Interstate(s): toward a subtextual formalization; Molding the Pop Ghost: noise and immersion; Qubit Noise Non-ference: a conversation.

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