Index

                                   Contents

     Acknowledgments                                                VII

     Introduction                                                    2

     Listening through History; Prelude: Modernism; Explanations and 
     Qualifications

Part I. Significant Noises                                          20

1.  Immersed in Noise                                               25
    Sentient Sound; Interpolatin of Noise; Protean Noise; Oscillator 
    Noise

2.  Noises of the Avant-Garde                                       45
    Bruitism; Noise and Simultaneity; The Future of War Noises

Part II. Drawing the Line: Music, Noise, and Phonography            68

3.  Concerning the Line                                             72
    Resident Noises; The Gloss of the Gliss; Beethoven at Fifty Times 
    per Second; "I, the Accelerated Line"

4.  The Sounds of Music                                            101
    Demarcated Sounds; Drawning the Line in Theory; Synesthesia as 
    Noise Abatement

5.  Ubiquitous Recording                                           123
    The Rotary Revolution; Russian Revolutionary Film

Part III. The Impossible Inaudible                                 158

6.  John Cage: Silence and                                         161
    Much to Confess about Nothing; Canned Silence; Silencing 
    Techniques; Cage and the Impossible Inaudible

7.  Nondissipative Sounds and the Impossible Audible               200
    Inaudibly Loud, Long-Lasting, Far-Reaching; Machines of 
    Nondissipation

8.  The Parameters of All Sound                                    224
    Loud Sounds; Conceptual Sounds

Part IV. Water Flows and Flux                                      242

9.  A Short Art History of Water Sound                             245
    Water Music; Dripping; Surrealism and Submerged Women

10. In the Wake of Dripping: New York at Midcentury                260
    The Object of Performance; Allan Kaprow: Immersed Noisician; 
    George Brecht's Drip Music

Part V. Meat Voices                                                290

11. Two Sounds of the Virus: William Burrough’s Pure Meat Method   293
    A culture for Growing Viruses; Schlupping; On Goo Behavior; 
    The Cancer Virus; Cellular Phones

12. Cruelty and the Beast: Antonin Artaud and Michael McClure      322
    Artaud in America; Musical Artauds: Tudor and Cage; Beats 
    Language; Beast Language; Affected and Afflicted Screaming; 
    Seraphic Screams and the Tortuos Blast

Notes                                                              360

Index                                                              446