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Read [David Novak Book] # Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation (Sign, Storage, Transmission) Online # PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation (Sign, Storage, Transmission) He provides a rich ethnographic account of live performances, the circulation of recordings, and the lives and creative practices of musicians and listeners. He explores the technologies of Noise and the productive distortions of its networks. Capturing the textures of feedback—its sonic and cultural layers and vibrations—Novak describes musical circulation through sound and listening, recording and performance, international exchange, and the social interpretations of media.. With i

Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation (Sign, Storage, Transmission)

Title : Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation (Sign, Storage, Transmission)
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Rating : 4.46 (855 Votes)
Asin : 082235392X
Format Type : paperback
Number of Pages : 304 Pages
Publish Date : 2016-03-15
Language : English

"David Novak goes inside the Noise scene and presents an astounding perspective: historically astute, inspired, and completely shell-shocked."

He provides a rich ethnographic account of live performances, the circulation of recordings, and the lives and creative practices of musicians and listeners. He explores the technologies of Noise and the productive distortions of its networks. Capturing the textures of feedback—its sonic and cultural layers and vibrations—Novak describes musical circulation through sound and listening, recording and performance, international exchange, and the social interpretations of media.. With its cultivated obscurity, ear-shattering sound, and over-the-top performances, Noise has captured the imagination of a small but passionate transnational audience.For its scattered listeners, Noise always seems to be new and to come from somewhere else: in North America, it was called "Japanoise." But does Noise really belong to Japan? Is it even music at all? And why has Noise become such a compelling metaphor for the complexities of globalization and participatory media at the turn of the millennium?In Japanoise, David Novak draws on more than a decade of research in Japan and the United States to trace the "cultural feedback" that generates and sustains Noise. Noise, an underground music made through an amalgam of feedback, distortion, and electronic effects, first emerged as a genre in the 1980s, circulating on cassette tapes traded between fans in Japan, Europe, and North America

Japanoise is excellent twinkle Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation by David Novak is excellent. It is the perfect blending of theory with specific field reports. Hence both reflective and informative. Anyone interested in how culture echoes the general social conditions of circ. The Most Extreme Music in the World I am an adept of extreme audio practices. From teenage youth to adult age, I went all the way from progressive rock to experimental music to various forms of electronica and to sound art. I explored the universe of sound with an open mind and a taste for . Kind of disappointing Kevin J. O'Conner Having followed the Japanese noise scene pretty closely from 1995 to around 1998, including seeing Merzbow and Masonna live in Seattle in 1996, I was pretty excited to see that someone had written a book about the subject.Unfortunately, from my perspectiv

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