Joanna Demers: 3 books
Anatomy of Thought-Fiction
CHS report, April 2214
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
In the year 2214, the Center for Humanistic Study has discovered an unpublished manuscript by Joanna Demers, a musicologist who lived some two centuries before. Her writing interrogates the music of artists ranging from David Bowie and Scott Walker to Kanye West and The KLF. Questioning how people of...
Listening through the Noise : The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music
The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Electronic music since 1980 has splintered into a dizzying assortment of genres and subgenres communities and subcultures. Given the ideological differences among academic popular and avant-garde electronic musicians is it possible to derive an aesthetic theory that accounts for this variety? And...
Drone and Apocalypse
An Exhibit Catalog for the End of the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Drone and Apocalypse is an exhibit catalog for a retrospective of twenty-first-century art. Its narrator, Cynthia Wey, is a failed artist convinced that apocalypse is imminent. She writes critical essays delineating apocalyptic tendencies in drone music and contemporary art. Interspersed amid these essays...