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Records

• 33GB archive of 1980s noise music released on cassette tapes

Publications

Luigi Russolo, The Art of Noises, 1916. Download (IT, EN, ES, DE, FR, RU).

Jacques Attali, Noise: The Political Economy of Music, 1977-. Download (FR, EN).

Monographs

• Luigi Russolo, L’Arte dei rumori, Milan: Edizione Futuriste di Poesia, 1916, 92 pp. (Italian). The manifesto was first published on 11 March 1913.
  • The Art of Noises, trans. Robert Filliou, Something Else Press, 1967. Manifesto only.
  • The Art of Noises, trans. Barclay Brown, New York: Pendragon, 1987, 87 pp.
  • "El arte de los ruidos. Manifiesto Futurista", Sin Titulo 3 (1996), UCLM, pp 8-15. (Spanish). Manifesto only.
  • Die Geräuschkunst, trans. Justin Winkler and Albert Mayr, Basel: Akroama, 1999. (German)
  • L’Art des bruits. Manifeste futuriste, 2003; 4th ed., 2013. (in French). Manifesto only.
  • Iskusstvo shumov [Искусство шумов]. (Russian). The manifesto only.
• Jacques Attali, Bruits: essai sur l’economie politique de la musique, Presses Universitaires de France, 1977; 2001. (in French)
  • Noise: The Political Economy of Music, trans. Brian Massumi, Manchester University Press, 1985, 179 pp.
• Ulrich Holbein, Der belauschte Lärm, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1991, 209 pp. (German)
• Douglas Kahn, Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts, MIT Press, 1999, 455 pp.
• Alfred Birnbaum (ed.), n01se, Cambridge, UK: Kettle’s Yard, 2000, 118 pp. Catalogue.
• Craig Dworkin, "The Politics of Noise", in Reading the Illegible, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2003.
• Bart Kosko, Noise, Viking, 2006.
• Paul Hegarty, Noise/Music: A History, Bloomsbury, 2007, 232 pp.
• Karin Bijsterveld, Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century, MIT Press, 2008, 350 pp.
• Mattin, Anthony Iles (eds.), Noise & Capitalism, Arteleku Audiolab, and San Sebastián: Donostia, 2009.
• Cat Hope, "Cultural terrorism and anti-music: Noise music and its impact on experimental music in Australia", in Experimental Music: Audio Explorations in Australia, ed. Gail Priest, UNSW Press, 2009, pp 57-74.
• Caleb Kelly, Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction, MIT Press, 2009. [1]
• Thomas Bey William Bailey, Micro Bionic: Radical Electronic Music & Sound Art in the 21st Century, Creation Books, 2009; 2nd ed., Belsona Books, 2012, 418 pp.
• Salomé Voegelin, Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art, Continuum, 2010, 256 pp.
• George Prochnik, In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise, Doubleday, 2010, 352 pp.
• Mark Nunes (ed.), Error: Glitch, Noise, and Jam in New Media Cultures, Continuum, 2010, 288 pp. [2]
• Peter Krapp, Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture, University of Minnesota Press, 2011. [3]
• Joseph Nechvatal, Immersion Into Noise, Open Humanities Press, 2011.
• Hillel Schwartz, Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond, Zone Books, 2011, 912+349 pp, Endnotes. Reviews: Mattern (2012), Voegelin (2012), Chéenne (2012), Tofts (2012), Parmar (2013), Hagood (2013), Pellicer (2013), Holmes (2014), Morton (2014), English (2014). [4] [5]
• Michael Goddard, Benjamin Halligan, Paul Hegarty (eds.), Reverberations: The Philosophy, Aesthetics and Politics of Noise, Bloomsbury, 2012, 304 pp.
• eldritch Priest, http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/056b47e6465bffdad66a124a2dd05dd8#0.01 Boring Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and the Aesthetics of Failure], Bloomsbury, 2013. [6], Excerpt. Reviews: Hainge (2013), Key (2013), Neural (2013), Hugill (2015).
• David Novak, Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation, Duke University Press, 2013, 304 pp.
• Greg Hainge, Noise Matters: Towards an Ontology of Noise, Bloomsbury, 2013, 240 pp. [7]
• Michael Goddard, Benjamin Halligan, Nicola Spelman (eds.), Resonances: Noise and Contemporary Music, Bloomsbury, 2013, 288 pp.
• Josh Epstein, Sublime Noise: Musical Culture and the Modernist Writer, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014, 384 pp. Based on the dissertation (2008).

Magazines

• Special Interests: Power Electronics Industrial Noise Experimental Avantgarde Ambient, 9+ issues, since 2009?. [8] [9]
• As Loud As Possible: The Noise Culture Magazine, 1 issue, ed. Steve Underwood, 2010, 166 pp. [10] [11] [12]
• Personal Best: Fanzine for Noise, Music and the Cosmic Soup, 5+ issues, ed. Lasse Marhaug, Oslo: Marhaug Forlag, since Dec 2011, 100 pp per issue. [13]

Journal issues

• Verksted 4: "Sonic North", Oslo: Office for Contemporary Art Norway, 2005, 102 pp. [14]
• Interference 3: "Noise", 2013.

Essays (selection)

• Max Neuhaus, "BANG, BOOooom, ThumP, EEEK, tinkle", New York Times, 6 Dec 1974, p 39.
• Aden Evens, "Sound and Noise", chapter 1 in Evens, Sound Ideas: Music, Machines, and Experience, University of Minnesota Press, 2005, pp 1-23.

Resources

• Noise Identities, a research blog by Melle Kromhout.

See also

Sound art

	Sound and Music communities of practice
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