Sound Art and Music Philosophy, Composition, Performance. by Dack, John

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Sonic flux : sound, art, and metaphysics / by Cox, Christoph, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Signal to Noise: An Ontology of Sound Art; Noise; Leibniz and the Auditory Unconscious; Sound Art and the Sonic Flux; Room Tone; Sound, Symbol, Sample; Music and Sound Art; 5. …”
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Listening to noise and silence : towards a philosophy of sound art / by Voegelin, Salomé

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Monumental sounds : art and listening before Dante / by Shoaf, Matthew G.

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The digital musician by Hugill, Andrew

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Performance art in Ireland : a history

Table of Contents: “…Performing political acts : performance art in Northern Ireland : ritual, catharsis, and transformation / André Stitt -- Bbeyond and the art of participation / Karine Talec -- Dublin and performance art : twenty years of action, 1970-1990 / Amanda Coogan -- The development of performance and sound art in Cork / Megs Morely interviewing Danny McCarthy -- Polyphonic resonance : sound art in Ireland / El Putnam -- Survey : Ireland south of the border, High performance 1984, issue 25 / Anthony Sheehan -- The development of Irish feminist performance art in the 1980s and the early 1990s / Kate Antosik-Parsons -- Developing dialogues : live art and femininity in post-conflict Ireland / Helena Walsh -- Performance art in Ireland in the new millennium / Michelle Browne -- Right here right now / Cliodhna Shaffrey -- Fragments on the performance collective subject to ongoing change at the Galway Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland / Fergus Byrne -- Out of Ireland : Irish performance art internationally / Áine Phillips.…”
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Music, sound and multimedia : from the live to the virtual by Sexton, Jamie

Table of Contents: “…Karpovich -- Case study: Anime music videos / Dana Milstein -- Music in video games / Rod Munday -- Case study: Film music vs. video-game music: The case of "Silent Hill" / Zach Whalen -- Reflections on sound art / Jamie Sexton -- Pop music, multimedia and live performance / Jem Kelly -- Case study: Film sound, acoustic ecology and performance in electroacoustic music / Randolph Jordan -- Sound and music in website design / Lee Tsang -- Music media in young people's everyday lives / Dan Laughey -- Case study: The development of the Apple iPod / Kieran Kelly.…”
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The Crisis in the Humanities : Transdisciplinary Solutions. by Cvejic, arko

Table of Contents: “…Discursive Construction of the Body and the Bodily Potential for Creating New NarrativesOvercoming the Traditional Humanities; Globalisation and World Literature; Between Utopia and Activism; Knowledge and its Stability in and out of Academia; Part III -- Artists, Audiences, and the Crisis in Contemporary Art and Media; Disagency; Aesthetics and Machine Learning; Sound Art as a Transdisciplinary Practice; The Playful Face of the Performing Object; Live or Living Dead; Bio Art from the Other Europe; Editors and Contributors; Index of Names.…”
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Audionarratology. by Mildorf, Jarmila

Table of Contents: “…: Narrative in Country Music and the Blues ; Animae Partus: Conceptual Mythopoeisis, Progressive Rock, and the Many Voices of Pain of Salvation's BE ; Sound Art.…”
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Variations on media thinking by Zielinski, Siegfried

Table of Contents: “…: the struggle of the German workers radio movement, 1918-1933 -- Urban music box, urban hearing : Avraamov's Symphony of sirens in Baku and Moscow 1922-1923 : a media-archaeological miniature -- How one sees -- Lüology, techno-souls, artificial paradises : fragments of an an-archaeology of sound arts -- Designing and revealing : some aspects of a genealogy of projection -- Allah's automata : where ancient oriental learning intersects with early modern Europe. a media-archaeological miniature by way of introduction.…”
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The Sound Handbook. by Crook, Tim

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Digital dynamics in Nordic contemporary art

Table of Contents: “…Dynamic Seclusion: Nordic Noir and Digital CultureConcretism and Danish Digital Art: New Political Dialogues from an Avant-Garde Perspective; The Art of Instituting; Representation, Complexity and Control: Three Aspects of Technology-Based Sonic Art; Uneasy Listening: Perspectives on (Nordic) Sound Art after the Digital; Reformulations of the 'Natural' World: Jana Winderen's Sound Installation The Wanderer; The Intertwining of the Digital and the Biological in Artistic Practice; In Between Worlds; Virtual Worldmaking: Cultivating Digital Art Practice…”
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Music after the fall : modern composition and culture since 1989 by Rutherford-Johnson, Tim

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The Handbook of Listening

Table of Contents: “…Sound and Architecture: A Look Back -- The Influence of Sound Art -- Listening and Architecture -- Reimagining the Architectural Design Process -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6 Audiology -- Anatomy of Hearing -- The Study of Hearing -- Auditory Processing Problems -- Other Forms of Hearing Loss -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7 Interpersonal Communication -- Defining Interpersonal Communication and Listening -- Forms of Interpersonal Listening -- Conclusion and a Caveat -- References -- Chapter 8 Language Learning -- Prenatal Experiences Shape Listening Preferences in the Newborn…”
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Undercurrents : the Hidden Wiring of Modern Music. by Wire, The

Table of Contents: “…THE SOLAR MYTH APPROACH: THE LIVE SPACE RITUAL: SUN RA, STOCKHAUSEN, P-FUNK, HAWKWINDMECHANISM; HUMANS, ARE THEY REALLY NECESSARY?: SOUND ART, AUTOMATA AND MUSICAL SCULPTURE; AUTOMATING THE BEAT: THE ROBOTICS OF RHYTHM; THE AUTOBAHN GOES ON FOREVER: KINGS OF THE ROAD: THE MOTORIK PULSE OF KRAFTWERK AND NEU!…”
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Composing under the skin : the music-making body at the composer's desk by Craenen, Paul

Table of Contents: “…""Collective Tension""""Spatial Frustration""; ""The Sounding Body""; ""Instrumental Theatre""; ""Contact Microphones and EEGs""; ""Between the Abstract and the Concrete""; ""The Voice Exposed""; ""A Concrete Turn""; ""Ideology, Rediscovery, Experiment""; ""Audible Processes""; ""Sound Art""; ""Musique concrÃ?te""; ""Musique concrÃ?…”
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Sonic warfare : sound, affect, and the ecology of fear by Goodman, Steve

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Environmental sound artists : in their own words by Bianchi, Frederick W., Manzo, V. J.

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A cultural history of the avant-garde in the Nordic countries, 1950-1975

Table of Contents: “…Clothing Irons and Whisky Bottles -- Creating an Icelandic Musical Avant-Garde -- Erró, or the Porousness of Borders -- The Situationist Offensive in Scandinavia -- SÚM -- The Flux in Iceland -- Fluxus, Eric Andersen and the Communist East -- Making Choices -- Debatable Translations and Publication Policies of Finnish Cultural Magazines -- SECTION 4: New Technologies and New Media -- Chance and Play, or Marvellous Machines -- A Forgotten Swedish Film Avant-Garde -- Radiophonic Poetry and a Blind Movie -- Öyvind Fahlström's Sound Art -- The Medium is the Message -- Danish Radio Experiments of the 1960s -- What's Wrong with Billy Spafon? …”
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