Noise permeates our highly mediated and globalised cultures. Noise as art, music, cultural or digital practice is a way of intervening so that it can be harnessed for an aesthetic expression not caught within mainstream styles or distribution.
This wide-ranging book examines the concept and practices of noise, treating noise not merely as a sonic phenomenon but as an essential component of all communication and information systems. The book opens with ideas of what noise is, and then works through ideas of how noise works in contemporary media, to conclude by showing potentials within noise for a continuing cultural renovation through experimentation. Considered in this way, noise is seen as an essential yet excluded element of contemporary culture that demands a rigorous engagement.
Reverberations brings together a range of perspectives, case studies, critiques and suggestions as to how noise can mobilize thought and cultural activity through a heightening of critical creativity.Written by a strong, international line-up of scholars and artists,
Reverberations looks to energize this field of study and initiate debates for years to come.
Goddard, Michael: - Michael N. Goddard is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in Film, Television and Moving image at the University of Westminster, UK. He has published widely on international cinema, audiovisual culture, and media theory. He recently published a book, Impossible Cartographies on the cinema of Raúl Ruiz. He has also been doing research on the fringes of popular music culminating in co-editing two books on noise, Reverberations and Resonances. Most recently, his research focuses on contemporary audiovisual popular culture and urban space. He is currently a Special Visiting Researcher, working with a team of researchers at Unisinos, Brazil on the project, "Cities, Creative Industries and Popular Music Scenes."
Halligan, Benjamin: - Benjamin Halligan is Director of the Doctoral College of the University of Wolverhampton, UK. Publications include Michael Reeves (2003), Desires for Reality: Radicalism and Revolution in Western European Film (2016) and Hotbeds of Licentiousness: The British Glamour Film and the Permissive Society (2022), and the co-edited collections Mark E. Smith and The Fall: Art, Music and Politics (2010), Reverberations: The Philosophy, Aesthetics and Politics of Noise (2012), Resonances: Noise and Contemporary Music (2013), The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electro-Pop (2013), The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment (2015) and Stories We Could Tell: Putting Words to American Popular Music (2020; the posthumous work of David Sanjek).
Hegarty, Paul: - Paul Hegarty is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author and editor of 11 books that span critical and cultural theory, rock, experimental and noise music, as well as audiovisual art including Noise/Music (Bloomsbury, 2007), Rumour and Radiation (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Annihilating Noise (Bloomsbury, 2020). He is also Co-editor of Bloomsbury's Ex: Centrics series.
