A fortnightly reading group in londonon. Readings listed below in reverse chronological order.
Cage — Silence: Lectures and Writings
Selected lectures from Cage’s foundational text on indeterminacy and the aesthetics of silence.
Sterne — The Audible Past (Ch. 1)
How the tympanic function shaped modern listening and the stethoscope’s strange prehistory.
Russolo — The Art of Noises
The futurist manifesto that named noise as music’s inheritance.
Kittler — Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (Introduction)
Friedrich Kittler’s landmark opening — media as the condition of possibility for thought itself.