Annihilating Noise

Noise has become a model of cultural and theoretical thinking, offering a way of thinking about critical resistance, disruptive creativity, and the unexpected. Annihilating Noise presents noise as a negativity with no fixed identity that can only be defined in connection and opposition to meaning and order, and applies it to 21st-century concerns and today's technological ecology.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 296 pages
Publication date: 10 December 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Noise has emerged as a prominent model of cultural and theoretical thought in recent years, building upon Hegarty's influential 2007 book, "Noise/Music: Annihilating Noise." In sixteen essays, Annihilating Noise explores how noise offers a unique perspective on critical resistance, disruptive creativity, and a multifaceted understanding of the unexpected, the dissonant, and the unfamiliar. It challenges the notion of noise as a negative entity with no fixed identity, instead presenting it as a concept that can only be defined in relation to and in opposition to meaning and order. Beyond the realm of experimental music, Annihilating Noise considers noise as an idea and practice within various frameworks, including social, ecological, and philosophical perspectives. It highlights the disruptive implications of noise on our ways of thinking, acting, and organizing in the world and applies these insights to contemporary concerns and the technological ecology of the 21st century.

Weight: 482g
Dimension: 152 x 227 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781501335440