Post-Digital Music (essays) - Kim Cascone

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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