... This entry describes the diverse meanings of noise—both in sound studies and everyday social interpretations—that emerge from the divergences and overlaps between technological environments, art movements, and circulations of social difference. Noise is an essential product of communicational...

... This chapter explores the characterization of certain types or instances of sound as noise and in particular the distinction within the musical domain between supposedly inherently musical sounds and noisy ones. Western musical theory and practice have privileged tonic sounds, that is, those...

... no intrinsic properties that neatly correspond to position and velocity, and that measurement forces a quantum system to cough up values for these quantities in a way that depends on how the measurement is done.1 And, | n-i | 88 | noise | For [Niels] Bohr, what is at issue is not that we cannot know both...

...3 · LISTENING FOR NOISE Seeking Disturbing Sounds in Tourist Spaces susan haRewood The task of the critic would be to call attention to the cultural voices at play not only those heard in aural close up but also those distorted or drowned out by the text. Shohat and Stam (2014) I want to disturb...

...1 Neoliberal Noise and the Biopolitics of (Un)Cool Acoustic Resonance as Political Economy Built on samples of English minimalist composer Michael Nyman s 1983 Chasing Sheep Is Best Left to Shepherds, 1 the (also English) Pet Shop Boys 2013 single Love Is a Bourgeois Construct is about...

... There were trees (some were later cut) on what used to be the Theresien- stadt town main square, or its Paradeplatz [Exercise Square], as this was a garrison town. Cheeping, twittering, and cooing could be heard from those FIVE Noise 84 Chapter Five trees still at the time of the camp, day and night...