Index

C O N T E N T 5  

Acknowledgements viii

Contributors ix

Introduction 1

Michael Goddard, Benjamin Halligan and Nicola Spelman

PART ONE Noise, Rock and Psychedelia 11

1  ‘Kick Out the Jams’: Creative Anarchy and Noise in 
   1960s Rock 13
   Sheila Whiteley

2  Recasting Noise: The Lives and Times of Metal
   Machine Music 24
   Nicola Spelman

3  Shoegaze as the Third Wave: Affective Psychedelic Noise, »
   1965-91 37 
   Benjamin Halligan

4  To Be Played at Maximum Volume: Rock Music as a 
   Disabling (Deafening) Culture 64
   George McKay


PART TWO Punk Noise: Prehistories and Continuums 79

5  Sounds Incorporated Dissonant Sorties into Popular
   Culture 81
   Stephen Mallinder

6  Stairwells of Abjection and Screaming Bodies:
   Einstürzende Neubauten’s Artaudian Noise Music 95
   Jennifer Shryane

7  Make a Joyous Noise: The Pentecostal Nature of
   American Noise Music 107
   Seb Roberts

8  Roars of Discontent: Noise and Disaffection in Two Cases
   of Russian Punk 121
   Yngvar B. Steinholt

9  Noise from Nowhere: Exploring ‘Noisyland’s’ Dark, Noisy 
   and Experimental Music 134
   Michael Goddard

   Archive: Indestructible Energy: Seeing Noise 153
   Julie R. Kane

PART THREE Noise, Composition and Improvisation [8]

10 Xenakian Sound Synthesis: Its Aesthetics and Influence on
   ‘Extreme’ Computer Music 183
   Christopher Haworth

11 Sound Barriers: The Framing Functions of Noise and
   Silence 198
   Alexis  Paterson

12 Listening Aside: An Aesthetics of Distraction in
   Contemporary Music 209
   David Cecchetto and eldritch Priest

13 Using Noise Techniques to Destabilize Composition and
   Improvisation 222
   Eric Lyon

14 Noise as Mediation: Adorno and the Turntablism of Philip
   ]eck 242
   Erich Hertz

PART FOUR Approaching Noise Musics 255

15 Noise as Music: Is There a Historical Continuum? From
   Historical Roots to Industrial Music 257
   Joseph Tham 

16 Noise as Material lrnpact: New Uses of Sound in Noise-
   related Movements 273
   Rafael Sarpa

17 Into the Full: Strawson, Wyschnegradsky and Acoustic
   Space in Noise Musics 286
   ].-P. Caron 

18 Gossips, Sirens, Hi-Fi W’ives: Feminizing the Threat of 
   Noise 297 
   Marie Thompson 

19 Beyond Auditive Unpleasantness:  An Exploration of Noise
   in the Work of Filthy Turd 312
   James Mooney and Daniel Wilson

Notes 326

Bibliography 347

Index 366