Description: "A follow-up to Hegarty's successful Noise/Music, this book looks at noise in a range of contexts within sound studies and cultural theory"--
Brief description: Paul Hegarty teaches Philosophy and Visual Culture at University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of Noise/Music (Bloomsbury, 2007) and Co-Series Editor of the Ex: Centricsseries with Bloomsbury. He jointly runs the experimental record label dotdotdotmusic, and performs in the noise bands Safe and La Société des Amis du Crime.
Review Quotes: "Annihilating Noise disrupts the ways we have previously thought about noise and its relation to music, silence and culture more generally. Hegarty combines his previous theories of sonic disturbance with an astonishing array of theoretical approaches, turning the idea of noise every which way in order to re-energise discussions of gender, race and the technological economies. Japanese noise, Hip-Hop, sonic ecology, improvisation, video art and a whole lot more are used to rethink what it means to listen-and through which devices-to sonic disturbance. Poetic, eclectic and bold, this is a theoretical tour de force that will make you hear differently, a skill that has never been so urgently required." --Holly Rogers, Reader in Music, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK