Annihilating Noise

Paul Hegarty (University of Nottingham, UK)

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Bloomsbury Academic USA
10 December 2020

Music reviews & criticism; Electronic music

Noise has become a model of cultural and theoretical thinking over the last two decades. Following Hegarty's influential 2007 book, Noise/Music, Annihilating Noise discusses in sixteen essays how noise offers a way of thinking about critical resistance, disruptive creativity and a complex yet enticing way of understanding the unexpected, the dissonant, the unfamiliar. It presents noise as a negativity with no fixed identity that can only be defined in connection and opposition to meaning and order. This book reaches beyond experimental music and considers noise as an idea and practice within a wide range of frameworks including social, ecological, and philosophical perspectives. It introduces the ways in which the disruptive implications of noise impact our ways of thinking, acting, and organizing in the world, and applies it to 21st-century concerns and today’s technological ecology.

By: Paul Hegarty (University of Nottingham UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9781501335433
ISBN 10: 150133543X
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 10 December 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Where Is Noise as Practice and Theory Today? I. Ungrounding 1. Earth Apathy: A General Ecology of Sound 2. Catch and Capture: ‘Field’ and ‘Recording’ in Field Recording 3. The Empty Channel: Noise Music and the Pathos of Information 4. Eon Cores: Noise Prospecting in A Personal Sonic Geology II. Unsettled 5. Is There Black Noise? 6. After Generation: Pharmakon, Puce Mary and the Spatialized, Gendered Avant-Garde 7. The Silence III. Unmoored 8. Playing Economies 9. The Spectacle of Listening 10. The Restoration: Vinyl and the Dying Market 11. The Hallucinatory Life of Tape IV. Undermined 12. Supplementing (in) Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures 13. Less Familiar: The Near-Music of David Jackman and Organum 14. BUNK: Origins and Copies in Nurse With Wound and The New Blockaders 15. Vile Heretical Misprision: Dante’s Commedia as Metal Theory 16. Noise Hunger Noise Consumption: The Question of How Much is Enough Index

Paul Hegarty teaches Philosophy and Visual Culture at University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of Noise/Music (Bloomsbury, 2007) and co-series editor of the Ex:Centrics series with Bloomsbury. He jointly runs the experimental record label dotdotdotmusic, and performs in the noise bands Safe and La Société des Amis du Crime.

Reviews for Annihilating Noise

Annihilating Noise is an excellent contribution to sound studies, and should be required reading for anyone interested in the intersection of noise and broader social processes. * The Journal of Sonic Studies * Annihilating Noise disrupts the ways we have previously thought about noise and its relation to music, silence and culture more generally. Hegarty combines his previous theories of sonic disturbance with an astonishing array of theoretical approaches, turning the idea of noise every which way in order to re-energise discussions of gender, race and the technological economies. Japanese noise, Hip-Hop, sonic ecology, improvisation, video art and a whole lot more are used to rethink what it means to listen—and through which devices—to sonic disturbance. Poetic, eclectic and bold, this is a theoretical tour de force that will make you hear differently, a skill that has never been so urgently required. * Holly Rogers, Reader in Music, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK *