Sign. Listening to signs in post-Schaefferian electroacoustic music ; Material as sign in electronica -- Object. Minimal objects in microsound ; Maximal objects in drone music, dub techno, and noise -- Situation. Site in ambient, soundscape, and field recordings ; Genre, experimentalism, and the musical frame.
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Contemporary electronic music has splintered into a dizzying assortment of genres & subgenres, communities & subcultures. Given the ideological differences among academic, popular & avant-garde electronic musicians, is it possible to derive an aesthetic theory that accounts for this variety?