Boring Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and the Aesthetics of Failure - Brossura

Priest, Eldritch

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1441122133 ISBN 13: 9781441122131

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

Riassunto

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 elbows 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 current debates on failure as an aesthetic category, eldritch Priest shows failure to be a duplicitous concept that traffics in paradox and sustains the conditions for magical thinking and hyperstition. Framing recent experimental composition as a deviant kind of sound art, Priest explores how the affective and formal elements of post-Cagean music couples with contemporary culture's themes of depression, distraction, and disinformation to create an esoteric reality composed of counterfactuals and pseudonymous beings. Ambitious in content and experimental in its approach, Boring Formless Nonsense will challenge and fracture your views on failure, creativity, and experimental music.

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Recensione:

'The skilful navigation of modes of failure in composition that is Boring Formless Nonsense achieves a rare balance between theoretical crispness, fascinating detail and the murmurs of an avant-garde comic turn. It's like setting out on a journey over and over again.' --Paul Hegarty, author of 'Noise/Music' and co-author of 'Beyond and Before: Progressive Rock since the 1960s'

L'autore:

eldritch Priest writes on contemporary experimental music, audio culture, and post-avant-garde aesthetics from a 'pataphysical perspective. He is a composer and lives in Toronto.

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• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1441122133
• ISBN 13: 9781441122131
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336