Background Noise follows the development of sound as an artistic medium and illustrates how sound is put to use within modes of composition, installation, and p

"Follows the development of sound as an artistic medium and illustrates how sound is put to use within modes of composition, installation, and performance"--

The rise of a prominent auditory culture, reveals the degree to which sound art is lending definition to the 21st Century. And yet sound art still lacks related

Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book

An examination of the role of sound in twentieth-century arts. This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by lis