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Introduction One: BoringIntroductionA boring historyCage, Fluxus and Extendedness in the 1960s and 70sThe Aesthetics of Boredom and the Art of WaitingThe Premises/Promises of Aesthetic BoredomA Less Promising BoredomUglier Feelings of the StuplimePost...Death...Afterthought... Two: Formless Pretext(Informe)How to read this chapterStoryBecoming FormlessMusic NoiseRecording Distraction---MultitaskingCapture and EscapeLull ))) ))) )))Listening to SoS#16's Lull )))))(((((Listening Away)))))Muzak's Way of Dreaming Ubiquitously ))))---Notes on Muzak---Quantum ModulationWe don't (((listen))) anymoreThe (((Sound))) of HabitsSound-Effects))))) Charm and DissatisfactionLast)))))Another Again Three: Nonsense (Voodoo(Metareferentiality, Metamusic and Hypermusic(Grúpat and Pseudonymity(Symptoms, Syndromes and Hyperfiction(In a Sedimental Mood(Hyperstition, Magick and Nonsense(Becoming Karen et al, a Real-Time Hyperstition as of March 30, 2007 ByKaren Eliotiv(Of Lies(What does music feel like? (or, 'on the refrain of pain and imagining'):Discursive Remainders from glossolalia (stress positions) by EngramKnots(glossolalia (stress positions)(Occult dualism(Illustrative Interlude: Practicing(The sleep side of music and dream-work)))))))))))))Inconclusion/This chapter is false("Disclaimer") Four: Confabulation BibliographyIndex

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Highly original in form and content, this radical work redefines the aesthetics of failure through the prism of contemporary sound and composition.

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Highly original in form and content, this radical work redefines the aesthetics of failure through the prism of contemporary sound and composition.

About the Author

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 where he studied with senior scholar in residence, Brian Massumi. eldritch's essays on musical aesthetics and avant-garde poetics have appeared in various academic journals including Postmodern Culture, Radical Musicology and Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature. In addition to his academic work, eldritch is active as acomposer whose works have been performed across North America and Europe.

Reviews

The skilful navigation of modes of failure in composition that is Boring Formless Nonsense achieves a rare balance between theoretical crispness, fascinating detail and the murmurs of an avant-garde comic turn. It's like setting out on a journey over and over again.
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