Becoming Noise Music: Style, Aesthetics and History

uses a broad and agile music-analytical lens to dive deep into noise music; in doing this, it is the first book to focus exclusively and comprehensively on the
of noise music, as opposed to contextual questions of politics, history or sociology.
Using technical description and a range of visualisation tools in analyzing musical shape and organization, this book applies various hermeneutical lenses to draw meaning out of that analysis. Each chapter begins by setting out the context of the music under discussion and uses a variety of analytical techniques from inside and outside semiotics – the analytical breadth befitting the unusual collection of musics being analyzed. The book takes a descriptive approach that seeks to unite theoretical, technical and conceptual domains in interpreting noise music as style and structure. Relevant to both musicology and noise audiences, this book investigates a vital but analytically underexplored area of avant-garde musical practice.