The experimentalist phenomenon of 'noise' as constituting 'art' in a lot twentieth-century song (paradoxically) reached its zenith in Cage’s (‘silent’ piece) 4’33”. yet a lot post-1970s musical endeavour with an experimentalist telos, jointly referred to as 'sound art', has displayed a postmodern have to ‘load’ modernism’s ‘degree zero’.

After contextualizing experimentalism from its inception within the early 20th century, Dr Linda Kouvaras’s Loading the Silence: Australian Sound artwork within the Post-Digital Age explores the ways that chosen sound artwork works reveal creatively how sound is embedded inside of neighborhood, nationwide, gendered and old environments. Taking Australian tune as its fundamental - yet no longer sole - concentration, the ebook not just covers discussions of technological development, but additionally engages with aesthetic standpoints, via a variety of interviews, theoretical advancements, research and cultural milieux for a modern Australian, and wider postmodern, context.

Developing new methodologies for synergies among musicology and cultural reviews, the e-book uncovers a brand new post-postmodern aesthetic trajectory, which Kouvaras locates as constructing over the last twenty years - the altermodern.

Australian sound paintings is the following placed firmly at the map of overseas debates approximately modern track, offering a regular reference and invaluable source for practitioners within the artform, tune critics, students and educators.