Annihilating Noise

Hegarty, Paul

Abstract

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 16 essays how noise offers a way of thinking critical resistance, disruptive creativity and a complex yet enticing way of thinking about 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.

Citation

Hegarty, P. (2020). Annihilating Noise. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing

• Book Type: Authored Book
• Online Publication Date: Dec 10, 2020
• Publication Date: Dec 10, 2020
• Deposit Date: Sep 30, 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• ISBN: 9781501335433
• Keywords: noise, experimental music, cultural theory
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4881529
• Publisher URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/annihilating-noise-9781501335433/