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Author Priest, Eldritch, author.

Title Boring formless nonsense : experimental music and the aesthetics of failure / Eldritch Priest.

Publication Info. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (x, 316 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents FC; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Pretext; Introduction; 1 Boring; Introduction; On being bored; A boring history; Cage, Fluxus, and inclusion; Duration; The aesthetics of boredom and the art of waiting; The premises/promises of aesthetic boredom; A less promising boredom; Uglier feelings of the stuplime; Post ... death ... ; Afterthought ... ; 2 Formless; Pretext; (Informe); How to read this chapter; Story; Becoming formless; Music noise; Recording distraction; -- Multitasking; Capture and escape; Lull))))))))); Listening to SoS#16's lull))))); (((((Listening away))))).
(((((((((What does music feel like? (or, "on the refrain of pain andimagining"): Discursive remainders from glossolalia (stress positions)by Engram Knots((((((((((glossolalia (stress positions); (((((((((((Occult dualism; ((((((((((((Illustrative interlude: Practicing; (((((((((((((The sleep side of music and dream-work; Nonsense II; Inconclusion/This chapter is false; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
Muzak's way of dreaming ubiquitously)))) -- Notes on muzak; -- Quantum modulation; We don't (((listen))) anymore; The (((sound))) of habits; Artifice and the artificial;))))) Desire and dissatisfaction; Last))))); Another again; 3 Nonsense; (Voodoo; ((Metareferentiality, metamusic, and hypermusic; (((Grúpat and pseudonymity; ((((Symptoms, syndromes, and hyperfiction; (((((In a Sedimental Mood; ((((((Hyperstition, magick, and nonsense; (((((((Becoming Karen et al, a Real-Time Hyperstition as of March 30,2007 by Karen Eliot; ((((((((Of lies.
Summary Boring Formless Nonsense intervenes in an aesthetics of failure that has largely been delimited by the visual arts and its avant-garde legacies. It focuses on contemporary experimental composition in which failure rubs shoulders with the categories of chance, noise, and obscurity. In these works we hear failure anew. We hear boredom, formlessness, and nonsense in a way that gives new purchase to aesthetic, philosophical, and ethical questions that falter in their negative capability. Reshaping debates on failure as an aesthetic category, eldritch Priest shows failure to be a highly dubious con.
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Subject Avant-garde (Music)
Avant-garde (Music)
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Appreciation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Priest, Eldritch. Boring formless nonsense. New York : Bloomsbury, 2013 9781441122131 (DLC) 2012030063 (OCoLC)805892346
ISBN 9781441124081 (e-book)
144112408X (e-book)
1441124756
9781441124753
9781283971751 (MyiLibrary)
1283971755 (MyiLibrary)
9781441122131 (paperback alkaline paper)
9781441124753 (hardback alkaline paper)
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