| Contents |
Concrete tales and touching times: Xenakis, Philips Pavilion, small and tactile sounds, microscopic time and Henri Bergson, Magali Babin, Ryoji Ikeda -- Several infinities (an emblem book): metaphors of perspective/space and flight, Bachelard, da Vinci, works by Luc Ferrari, Jonathan Harvey, Luigi Ceccarelli, Phill Niblock -- With no direction home: maps and cartographers, documentary sounds, sound ecology, composed listening, Peter Cusack, Barry Truax, Paul Lansky, Francisco Lopez -- The same trail twice: talking Rain with Hildegard Westerkamp: transcribed interview of a walk in the rain with Hildegard Westerkamp, and text on subject of recording, listening, rehearing -- Speak/listen: invisible voices in radio, radio art and works for sound alone: radio 'voice' of authority, radio art, voice, unheard voices, Lotta Erickson, Evelyn Ficarra, Cathy Lane, Pamela Z -- Figure-toi: listening to Sous le regard d'un soleil noir by Francis Dhomont: multi-layered analysis, issues of translation, aural inner worlds, psychology of sound, schizophrenia, R.D. Laing -- Beyond the limit and the line: noise as metaphor, as pornographic sound, as transgression, Sarah Vaughan, Glenn Gould, Autechre, Merzbow -- The endnotes: appropriation and plunder, cover versions, pop, technology as the subject, John Oswald, Terre Thaemlitz, Martin Tetreault. |
| Abstract |
This book traverses a variety of aesthetic approaches to making electronic music. The author, herself a composer, writes from a highly personal and unusual perspective. The series of eight extended essays is a long way from conventional academic writing, and covers far more than the traditional repertoire. The essays are themselves literary compositions, whose structure, language and visual appearance are carefully constructed to amplify their theme--whether it be microsound or acousmatic art, electroacoustic or radiophonic music, plunderphonics, turntables or noise. In addition to this listening travel, these essays take illustrative byways through subjects as diverse as map-making, metaphors of flight, emblem books, the history of recording, translating and walks in the rain. |
