Index

CONTENTS

About the Companion Web Site	            ix

Introduction                                 3

Part I Sign

   1 Listening to Signs in Post-Schaefferian 
     Electroacoustic Music                  21
   2 Material As Sign in Electronica        43

Part II Object

   3 Minimal Objects in Microsound	    69
   4 Maximal Objects in Drone Music,
     Dub Techno, and Noise	            91

Part III Situation

   5 Site in Ambient, Soundscape,
     and Field Recordings	           113
   6 Genre, Experimentalism, 
     and the Musical Frame

Conclusion	                           155

Glossary	                           163

Bibliography                      	   179

Discography                                191

Index                                      195