Noise matters : towards an ontology of noise / Greg Hainge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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FC; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Manifesto; Turn it up ; Noise matters ; What noise has been ; What noise might be: Towards an ontology of noise ; Where noise will (and will not) be found; PART 1 ; 1 The (Not So) Noisy Elephants in the Room ; Sound; Fury; Signifying; Nothing; 2 Noisea ; Haiku; Nausea and noise; Where Nausea's noise is not ; Black noise ; Vinyl noise ; Grey noise ; 3 Noise, Horror, Death; Do you see what I see? ; Scream; Poltergeist; Death; White Noise ; The Ring ; Abject?; PART 2 ; 4 On the Difficulties of Attending to Noise.

On failing to see noise On failing to get rid of noise ; On failing to identify noise ; On noise failing to remain noise ; 5 On the Difficulties of Listening to Noise ; Punctum; Grain; V/Nois/ce; Concrete; Against the grain ; PART 3 ; 6 On Noise and Film. Planet, Rabbit, Lynch ; Eraserhead ; INLAND EMPIRE ; Noisy interlude 1 ; Metarabbit ; Digital noise ; Plus ça change ; Noisy interlude 2 ; Resolution? ; 7 On Noise and Photography . Forest, Fuzz, Ruff ; nm 07.1 ; nm 07.2 ; nm 07.3 ; nm 07.4 ; nm 07.5 ; nm 07.6 ; 8 On Noise and Music. Concrete (reprise), Woolly Mammoth ; Noise ; Musique.

Concrete (reprise) Bridge ; The woolly mammoth in the room ; Noise music ; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Everyone knows what noise is. Or do they? Can we in fact say that one man's noise is another teenager's music? Is noise in fact only an auditory phenomenon or does it extend far beyond this realm? If our common definitions of noise are necessarily subjective and noise is not just unpleasant sound, then it merits a closer look (or listen). Greg Hainge sets out to define noise in this way, to find within it a series of operations common across its multiple manifestations that allow us to apprehend it as something other than a highly subjective term that tells us very little. Examining a wide r.

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