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Post-Digital Music (essays) - Kim Cascone
Silent Editions/161 pgs
Excellent condition (new)
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A collection of eighteen essays written between 1999 and 2026 on the aesthetics of post-digital electronic music—laptop performance, the divination of digital error, subtle listening, and the metaphysics of the noise field.
Drawing on media theory, philosophy, and three decades of compositional practice, the essays were originally published across sound art journals and platforms and are gathered here for the first time.
CONTENTS:
01 Residualism
02 The Aesthetics of Failure
03 Grain, Sequence, System
04 Systems as Signal
05 Laptop Music
06 Modulating the Boundaries of Failure
07 The Grain of the Auditory Field
08 Errormancy: Glitch as Divination
09 Subtle Listening
10 The Avant-Garde as Aeromancy
11 Density Groups in Electroacoustic Music
12 Transcendigital Imagination
13 Organs of Subtle Perception
14 Flocking and the Emergence of Genre
15 The Failure of Failure
16 The Noise Field
17 Imagination → Idea → Will → Manifestation
18 0’00” & Vertical Time
Silent Editions/161 pgs
Excellent condition (new)
__________________________________________
A collection of eighteen essays written between 1999 and 2026 on the aesthetics of post-digital electronic music—laptop performance, the divination of digital error, subtle listening, and the metaphysics of the noise field.
Drawing on media theory, philosophy, and three decades of compositional practice, the essays were originally published across sound art journals and platforms and are gathered here for the first time.
CONTENTS:
01 Residualism
02 The Aesthetics of Failure
03 Grain, Sequence, System
04 Systems as Signal
05 Laptop Music
06 Modulating the Boundaries of Failure
07 The Grain of the Auditory Field
08 Errormancy: Glitch as Divination
09 Subtle Listening
10 The Avant-Garde as Aeromancy
11 Density Groups in Electroacoustic Music
12 Transcendigital Imagination
13 Organs of Subtle Perception
14 Flocking and the Emergence of Genre
15 The Failure of Failure
16 The Noise Field
17 Imagination → Idea → Will → Manifestation
18 0’00” & Vertical Time