Loading the Silence

Loading the Silence

by Kouvaras, Linda Ioanna, Dr

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The experimentalist phenomenon of 'noise' as constituting 'art' in much twentieth-century music (paradoxically) reached its zenith in Cage's ('silent' piece) 4'33". But much post-1970s musical endeavour with an experimentalist telos, collectively known as 'sound art', has displayed a postmodern need to 'load' modernism's 'degree zero'. After contextualizing experimentalism from its inception in the early twentieth century, Dr Linda Kouvaras's Loading the Silence: Australian Sound Art in the Pos…

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Summary

The experimentalist phenomenon of 'noise' as constituting 'art' in much twentieth-century music (paradoxically) reached its zenith in Cage's ('silent' piece) 4'33". But much post-1970s musical endeavour with an experimentalist telos, collectively known as 'sound art', has displayed a postmodern need to 'load' modernism's 'degree zero'. After contextualizing experimentalism from its inception in the early twentieth century, Dr Linda Kouvaras's Loading the Silence: Australian Sound Art in the Post-Digital Age explores the ways in which selected sound art works demonstrate creatively how sound.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Ashgate Publishing
  • Place of Publication:Milton
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2013.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (288 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781409441564, 1409441563
  • oclc:on1027175069
  • Dewey Decimal:780.9/05

Table of Contents

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Part 1: Background; Introduction; 1 Sound Artâ#x80;#x99;s Lineage; 2 Sound Art as Postmodernismâ#x80;#x99;s Exemplar; Part 2: Dawning; 3 The Dawning of Australian Sound Art; Part 3: Postmodern; 4 Feminizing the Sound Object; 5 The Geographico-political; 6 The Quotidian and Beyond; Part 4: Altermodern; 7 The Nostalgic: The Dawning of the Altermodern (1); 8 Neo-Modernist Arts of Noise in a Post-Postmodern Era: The Dawning of the Altermodern (2); Part 5: Conclusion; Conclusion: Silence Charged; Bibliography; Index.

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Kouvaras, Linda Ioanna, Dr

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