Boring Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and the Aesthetics of Failure

by Eldritch Priest

Book Overview

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 elbows 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441122133
• ISBN13: 9781441122131
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.4"