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Boring Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and The Aesthetics of Failure
Eldritch Priest
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Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 20. BIC Classification: AVA; HPN; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 139 x 27. Weight in Grams: 554.
Boring Formless Nonsense intervenes in an aesthetics of failure that has largely been delimited by the visual arts and its avant-garde legacies. It focuses on contemporary experimental composition in which failure rubs shoulders with the categories of chance, noise, and obscurity. In these works we hear failure anew. We hear boredom, formlessness, and nonsense in a way that gives new purchase to aesthetic, philosophical, and ethical questions that falter in their negative capability. Reshaping debates on failure as an aesthetic category, eldritch Priest shows failure to be a highly dubious concept. The book frames recent experimental composition as a deviant ... Read more
Boring Formless Nonsense intervenes in an aesthetics of failure that has largely been delimited by the visual arts and its avant-garde legacies. It focuses on contemporary experimental composition in which failure rubs shoulders with the categories of chance, noise, and obscurity. In these works we hear failure anew. We hear boredom, formlessness, and nonsense in a way that gives new purchase to aesthetic, philosophical, and ethical questions that falter in their negative capability. Reshaping debates on failure as an aesthetic category, eldritch Priest shows failure to be a highly dubious concept. The book frames recent experimental composition as a deviant ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781441124753
SKU
V9781441124753
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About Eldritch Priest
eldritch Priest is a composer, writer and co-artistic director of the experimental music collective Neither/Nor. He completed his PhD at the Institute for Studies in Literature, Art and Culture at Carleton University where he pursued research in the fields of the avant-garde, phenomenology, and philosophies of experience. eldritch was also a visiting researcher at Cornell University's Society for the Humanities ... Read more
Reviews for Boring Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and The Aesthetics of Failure
Priest is at his best in [the] musicological sections, lucidly explaining the processes and structures of complex works . . . His judgments lack the obtuseness that dogs writing on lowercase music and his prose style ... has a flair and rhythm that compels attention
Dan Barrow
The Wire
Dan Barrow
The Wire