{"product_id":"listening-through-the-noise-the-aesthetics-of-experimental-electronic-music-9780195387667","title":"Listening through the Noise: The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music","description":"\u003cp\u003eElectronic music since 1980 has splintered into a dizzying assortment of genres and subgenres  communities and subcultures. Given the ideological differences among academic  popular  and avant-garde electronic musicians  is it possible to derive an aesthetic theory that accounts for this variety? And is there even a place for aesthetics in twenty-first-century culture? This book explores genres ranging from techno to electroacoustic music  from glitch to drone music  and from dub to drones  and maintains that culturally and historically informed aesthetic theory is not only possible but indispensable for understanding electronic music.  The abilities of electronic music to use preexisting sounds and to create new sounds are widely known. This book proceeds from this starting point to consider how electronic music changes the way we listen not only to music  but to sound itself. The common trait in recent experimental electronic music is a concern with whether sound  in itself  bears meaning. The use of previously undesirable materials like noise  field recordings  and extremely quiet sounds has contributed to electronic musics destruction of the \"musical frame\"  the conventions that used to set apart music from the outside world. In the void created by the disappearance of the musical frame  different philosophies for listening have emerged. Some electronic music genres insist upon the inscrutability and abstraction of sound. Others maintain that sound functions as a sign pointing to concepts or places beyond the work. But all share an approach towards listening that departs fundamentally from the expectations that have governed music listening in the West for the previous five centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279913869365,"sku":"ByrdShop_019538766X","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195387667.jpg?v=1780615813","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/listening-through-the-noise-the-aesthetics-of-experimental-electronic-music-9780195387667","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}