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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 Post-Digital Age explores the ways in which selected sound art works demonstrate creatively how sound is embedded within local, national, gendered and historical environments. Taking Australian music as its primary -- but not sole -- focus, the book not only covers discussions of technological advancement, but also engages with aesthetic standpoints, through numerous interviews, theoretical developments, analysis and cultural milieu for a contemporary Australian, and wider postmodern, context. Developing new methodologies for synergies between musicology and cultural studies, the book uncovers a new post-postmodern aesthetic trajectory, which Kouvaras locates as developing over the past two decades -- the altermodern. Australian sound art is here put firmly on the map of international debates about contemporary music, providing a standard reference and valuable resource for practitioners in the artform, music critics, scholars and educators.

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Book category Books in English The arts Music Music: styles & genres

• Full title: Loading the Silence: Australian Sound Art in the Post-Digital Age
• Author: Linda Ioanna Kouvaras
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9781409441564
• ISBN: 1409441563
• ID: 04783215
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 692 g
• Dimensions: 243 × 167 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. March 2013

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