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100	1		_aBarrett, G. Douglas, _eauthor. _913464
245	1	0	_aExperimenting the human : _bart, music, and the contemporary posthuman / _cG. Douglas Barrett.
264		1	_aChicago : _bUniversity of Chicago Press, _c2023.
300			_a220 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aSIBF2023
501			_aP.B
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: Music in a wired brain -- The brain at work: cognitive labor, the posthuman brain, and Alvin Lucier's Music for Solo Performer -- "How we were never posthuman": techniques of the posthuman body in Pamela Z's Voci -- "The catastrophe of technology": posthuman automata and Nam June Paik's Robot K-456 -- Deep (space) listening: SETI, Moonbounce, and Pauline Oliveros's Echoes from the Moon -- Engendering the digital: digitality and the posthuman hand in Laetitia Sonami's Lady's Glove -- The last invention: recursion, recordings, and Yasunao Tone's AI Deviation -- Conclusion: Music after extinction.
520			_a"In Experimenting the Human, G Douglas Barrett, himself an artist of experimental music, argues that a radical prefiguration of posthumanism can be found in the discourses and practices of postwar experimental music. Experimental music draws upon practices developed through exchanges between the US, Europe, and East Asia during the postwar era (along with influences from the pre-war avant-garde), including indeterminacy, open forms, and extended uses of music technology. Although not exclusively focused on technology, experimental music has played a critical role in shaping the fields of biofeedback, AI, and robotics-paradigms central to the development of cybernetics and, later, posthumanism. Beyond the modernist project of subjecting sound parameters to the deterministic human control exemplified by serialism, experimentalism has used indeterminacy-beginning with chance and natural processes and later incorporating computer algorithms, biofeedback, and AI-in ways that mirror posthumanism's challenge to the centrality of human agency. Through a series of six intimate studies of works by Alvin Lucier, Nam June Paik, Pamela Z, and Laetitia Sonami, Barrett places posthuman thought in dialogue with works of experimental music surveyed from the 1960s to the present. In addition to studies of individual musical works, he illustrates existing exchanges between experimental music and cybernetics theorists since the 1950s, and links this dialogue to posthumanist theory beginning in the 1990s for which those very cyberneticists were a primary point of departure. Posthumanism and experimental music address fundamental questions about the relationship between humans and technology and thus have much to learn from one another. This project illuminates the insights to be gained from viewing these two movements together. Experimental music can be informed by posthumanism's sustained inquiry into the relationship between the human and technology. Conversely, posthumanism, a field focused on literature and visual culture, may benefit from music that has worked through many of its essential concerns in practice"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aLucier, Alvin _xCriticism and interpretation. _913465
600	1	0	_aZ, Pamela, _d1956- _xCriticism and interpretation. _913466
600	1	0	_aPaik, Nam June, _d1932-2006 _xCriticism and interpretation. _913467
600	1	0	_aSonami, Laetitia de Compig̈ne _xCriticism and interpretation. _913468
650		0	_aAvant-garde (Music) _913469
650		0	_aMusic and technology. _913470
650		0	_aArt and music. _913471
650		0	_aMusic _xSocial aspects. _93898
650		0	_aPosthumanism. _913472
650		7	_aMUSIC / Philosophy & Social Aspects _2bisacsh _913473
650		7	_aART / History / Contemporary (1945-) _2bisacsh _913474
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