Orchestrating modernity: musical culture and the arts of noise -- Beating obedient, thinking of the key: Adorno, The Waste Land, and the total wrk of art -- The Antheil era: Ezra Pound's musical sensations -- Joyce's phoneygraphs: Antheil, Wagner, and the noise in the chamber -- Performing publicity: authenticity, influence, and the sitwellian commedia -- Aristocracy of the dissonant: the sublime noise of Forster and Britten