Volume 3, Issue 3 Music : Aesthetic and Praxis
Edited by Mike Grimshaw and Cindy Zeiher
Contents
Introduction – How Knowable is Music?, Cindy Zeiher and Mike Grimshaw
“A Voice Resounds”, Jean-Luc Nancy
“Sonic Anti-Correlationism and its Limits: Thinking Quentin Meillassoux with William Basinski”, Christopher Breu
“Silence, Subversions, Sound-bothering, and Swans”, Eve de Castro-Robinson
“Globokar, or the Effort to Write Materialist Music”, Slavoj Žižek
“Music and Thought: A Composer’s Reverie”, Linda Catlin Smith
“On Musical Sense”, Jean-Luc Nancy
“Staging Liquid Modern Communities in Monteverdi’s Orfeo”, Gregory Camp
“The Trembling of the Sensible: Another way to Think Musical Autonomy”, Vladimir Pinheiro Safatle
“Nasty Gap and Lovely Suspense: Thinkable and Hearable Music in the Middle Ages”, Silvan Wagner
“Voicing the Real in Extreme Metal”, Rosemary Overell
“Sandcastles in Sound: Memory and Popular Music on the Shores of Oblivion”, Martin Pogačar
“Critical Sonic Practice: Decolonizing Boundaries in Music Research”, Leila Adu-Gilmore
“Archephonai: The Dangers of Music”, James Martell
“Music about Music in Postmodernity: or, Adorno Comes Alive!”, Andrew Cole
“A Few Degenerate Thoughts”, Boris Benko
“Thinking Music as Divine Gift”, Gerald Liu
“The Sound is the Music – From Shamanism to Quantum Sound”, Panayiotis Kokoras
Conversations: Music Performance/Making/Thinking
Music is Nothing… Perhaps?: A Conversation between Riki Gooch (NZ) and Reuben Derrick (NZ)
Vibrating Notes and Noise: A Conversation between Susan Alcorn (USA) and Reuben Derrick (NZ)
Instant Composing – Playing Your Arse Off!: A Conversation between Peter Brötzmann (Germany), Reuben Derrick and Cindy Zeiher (NZ)
Dossier
“Psychoanalytic Seriality as Media Theory: From Freud’s Couch to Yours” Ryan Engley
“A Question of Infrademocracy: A Conceptual Approach to the ‘Radicality’ of Democracy” Andreas Beyer Gregersen
“Malallegories of Reading: Three Ghosts and a Spectre in Hamlet, Jameson, and Lacan” Sigi Jöttkandt
“Remembering Weimar”, Kathleen James-Chakaborty
Reviews
“Universalism and Identity” by Todd McGowan
Reviewed by Brett Nicholls
“The most important book most of you will never read–or, ‘doing the continental’. Sweet Dreams. The story of the New Romantics. From club culture to style culture” by Dylan Jones
Reviewed by Mike Grimshaw