Attali, J. (2009). Noise: The political economy of music. B. Massumi, Trans. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (Original work published 1984).
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"For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible."
Evens, A. (2005). Sound ideas: Music, machines, and experience. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
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"One cannot subject sound to a persistent observation; rather one can only listen and then, maybe, listen again. Music is apprehended in chunks of time. Partly because sound is dynamic, Western intellectual traditions show a markeds preference for vision as the figure of knowledge. We articulate more effectively the fixed image than the dynamic sound."
"...noise can be any difference between an input signal; or it can be a background level of sonic energy in a room or in a machine; or it can be any unwanted, annoying or unexpected sound; or it can be the constant vibration of the air at a given point in space; or it can refer to any sound whatsoever."
"Though it is often the case that signal overwhelms noise, it is noise that binds the signal, that serves as a medium, a baseline, a plane of relief against which signal stands out."
"The reproduction of sound is not a matter of physics but of affect and percept."
Massumi, B. (2014). Envisioning the virtual. In M. Grimshaw (Ed), The Oxford Handbook of Virtuality. (pp. 55–70). New York: Oxford University Press.
