Full Description
Resonances is a compelling collection of new essays by scholars, writers and musicians, all seeking to explore and enlighten this field of study. Noise seems to stand for a lack of aesthetic grace, to alienate or distract rather than enrapture. And yet the drones of psychedelia, the racket of garage rock and punk, the thudding of rave, the feedback of shoegaze and post-rock, the bombast of thrash and metal, the clatter of jungle and the stuttering of electronica, together with notable examples of avant-garde noise art, have all found a place in the history of contemporary musics, and are recognised as representing key evolutionary moments. Noise therefore is the untold story of contemporary popular music, and in a critical exploration of noise lies the possibility of a new narrative: one that is wide-ranging, connects the popular to the underground and avant-garde, fully posits the studio as a musical instrument, and demands new critical and theoretical paradigms of those seeking to write about music.
Contents
part one Noise, Rock and Psychedelia1 'Kick Out the Jams': Creative Anarchy and Noise in1960s RockSheila Whiteley2 Recasting Noise: The Lives and Times of MetalMachine MusicNicola Spelman3 Shoegaze as the Third Wave: Affective Psychedelic Noise,1965-1991Benjamin Halligan4 To Be Played at Maximum Volume: Rock Music as aDisabling (Deafening) CultureGeorge McKaypart two Punk Noise: Prehistories and Continuums5 Sounds Incorporated: Dissonant Sorties into PopularCultureStephen Mallinder6 Stairwells of Abjection and Screaming Bodies:Einsturzende Neubauten's Artaudian Noise MusicJennifer Shryane7 Make a Joyous Noise: The Pentecostal Nature ofAmerican Noise MusicSeb Roberts8 Roars of Discontent: Noise and Disaffection in Two Casesof Russian PunkYngvar B. Steinholt9 Noise from Nowhere: Exploring 'Noisyland's' Dark, Noisyand Experimental MusicMichael GoddardArchive: Indestructible Energy: Seeing NoiseJulie R. Kanepart three Noise, Composition and Improvisation10 Xenakian Sound Synthesis: Its Aesthetics and Influence on'Extreme' Computer MusicChristopher Haworth11 Sound Barriers: The Framing Functions of Noise andSilenceAlexis Paterson12 Listening Aside: An Aesthetics of Distraction inContemporary MusiDavid Cecchetto and eldritch Priest13 Using Noise Techniques to Destabilize Composition andImprovisationEric Lyon14 Noise as Mediation: Adorno and the Turntablism of PhilipJeckErich Hertzpart four Approaching Noise Musics15 Noise as Music: Is There a Historical Continuum? FromHistorical Roots to Industrial MusicJoseph Tham16 Noise as Material Impact: New Uses of Sound in NoiserelatedMovementsRafael Sarpa17 Into the Full: Strawson, Wyschnegradsky and AcousticSpace in Noise MusicsJ.-P. Caron18 Gossips, Sirens, Hi-Fi Wives: Feminizing the Threat ofNoiseMarie Thompson19 Beyond Auditive Unpleasantness: An Exploration of Noisein the Work of Filthy TurdJames Mooney and Daniel WilsonBibliographyIndex
