Abstract

Keywords: post-digital, aesthetics, audio, neomodernism, sound-in-itself, music, non-intention, glitch

The theorisation of post-digital aesthetics in music and sound art seems to be split in two contradictory directions. One direction emphasises the foregrounding of digital processes through the use of process-based procedures, while the other tends toward a neo-modernist, sound-in-itself tendency that would seek to obscure the role of process in the work. This paper argues for a re-evaluation of postdigital music and sound art practices from the perspective of non-subjective modes of composition and making, where aesthetic intentions are suspended.

• Ian Andrews is currently a PHD candidate at University of Technology Sydney, AU

Full text (PDF) p. 256-258