Index

   Acknowledgments VIII

   Introduction   1
   Glitching digital audio 6 | Music and sound 12
   The sonic turn 19 | Cracked playback technologies 24
   Manipulated, cracked, and broken 32 | Media 
   archaeology and cracked media 37

1 Recording and noise: approaches to 
  cracked media 44

   Introduction 45
   1 The critique of recording technology 46 
   2 What? I can't hear you over that NOISE! 60

2 Broken music: the manipulated, modified, and 
  destroyed phonograph 84 

   1 Broken music and early phonographic 
      experimentation 84 
   2 The crack and break in phonographic sound 
      production 114 
   3 Nam June Paik's broken tape loops and modified 
      turntables 132 
   4 Milan Knizak's Broken music 140 
   5 Christian Marclay and the death of vinyl 150 
   6 Destroyed turntables at the end of gramophonic culture 184
 
3 Damaged sound: glitching and skipping 
  compact discs in the audio of Yasunao Tone, 
  Nicolas Collins, Oval, and disc 210 

   1 The sound of glitching CDs 211 
   2 Yasunao Tone's wounded compact discs : from 
      improvisation and indeterminate composition to 
      glitching CDs 227
   3 The unmuted CD players of Nicolas Collins 245
   4 Oval : pop into art music 252 
   5 Disc and "real" CD damage 275 
   6 Conclusion 280

4 Tactics, shadows, and new media 284 

   1 The everyday ; Michel de Certeau's tactic and cracked 
      media 285 
   2 The shadows of technology : Paul DeMarinis and 
      Kim Cascone 295 
   3 Cracked, broken, and new 311

   Notes 322

   Bibliography 355

   Index 376