Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 BACKGROUND -- Introduction: No Longer Confined to Living in ̀The Age of Flying [with] Our Archaic Notions of Harmony' -- 1.Sound Art's Lineage -- 2.Sound Art as Postmodernism's Exemplar -- pt. 2 DAWNING -- 3.The Dawning of Australian Sound Art -- pt. 3 POSTMODERN -- 4.Feminizing the Sound Object -- 5.The Geographico-political -- 6.The Quotidian and Beyond -- pt. 4 ALTERMODERN -- 7.The Nostalgic: The Dawning of the Altermodern (1) -- 8.Neo-Modernist Arts of Noise in a Post-Postmodern Era: The Dawning of the Altermodern (2) -- pt. 5 CONCLUSION -- Conclusion: Silence Charged
Summary
Loading the Silence: Postmodern Sensibilities in Australian Sound Art is the first book about post-experimental Australian music, from the mid-1970s to the present day, collectively known as 'sound art'. Sound art' stems from the phenomenon of 'noise' as constituting 'art' in much twentieth-century music, and the veritable 'expl
