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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Series List
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. Toward a History of Decomposing Pianos
  10. 2. Piano as Medium, Material, and Representation
  11. 3. Destruction, Decay, and Entangled Bodies
  12. 4. Media and Material Transformations
  13. 5. From Damage to Salvage: Instruments for Listening
  14. Coda: Re-membering
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Notes
  17. Index
  18. Author Biographies

Index

  • Abels, Michael, 49
  • actants, 61–62, 74, 96
  • actor-network theory (ANT), 60
  • Adorno, Theodor, 67
  • Adzuki, Julia, 11, 66, 98, 105–9, 111, 113, 116, 121
  • aeolian effects, 23, 27, 79, 99–104, 106, 112, 115
  • aeolian harp, 79, 97, 100–101, 103
  • affect, 8, 40
  • affordances, cultural, 7–8, 10, 36, 50–52, 58, 64, 70, 73, 75, 77, 81–82
  • Afghanistan, 3, 10, 57
  • agency, 16, 61–62, 66
  • air, 8, 13, 15, 23, 32, 37, 40–41, 46, 56, 77, 89, 96–100, 103–4, 112
  • Alaimo, Stacy, 61
  • Allen, Aaron S., 35
  • Amos, Tori, 2, 16, 55
  • Anthropocene, 33, 65
  • anthroprocentrism, 7–9, 26, 63–66, 68, 71, 97, 115
  • Aparicio, Selva, 21
  • Armstrong, Louis, 49
  • auditory, 77, 79–81, 96, 112
  • Austen, Jane, 42, 48
  • Australia, 5–6, 14, 28–29, 34–35, 50, 66, 105
  • autodestructive art, 10, 14–15, 17–18, 55–56, 122
  • avant-garde, 15, 22, 25, 54
  • Bach, Johann Sebastian, 45, 55, 62, 95
  • Bachelard, Gaston, 95
  • Baroque, 4, 43, 69
  • basic media, 38, 50
  • Beethoven, Ludwig van, 13, 17, 20, 45, 48, 67
  • Bell, Jeff, 116
  • bells, 41, 52, 93
  • Bennett, Jane, 60, 67
  • Bennett, Xenia Pestova, 88
  • Beuys, Joseph, 32
  • Birtwistle, Harrison, 31
  • Björk, 65
  • blues, 48–49, 58, 81, 92
  • Bolleter, Ross, 28–30, 33–34, 66
  • Bourdieu, Pierre, 51
  • Braidotti, Rosi, 66
  • Brand, Dionne, 51, 58
  • Bubant, Nils, 33
  • Buchanan, Beverly, 68
  • Cage, John, 9, 22–26, 87, 89, 129
  • Campion, Jane, 6, 13, 28, 49
  • Carson, Rachel, 31, 102
  • Casid, Jill, 33
  • Chopin, Frédéric, 29, 47
  • classical music, 3, 5, 10, 26, 30, 35, 38, 45, 51–52, 57, 64, 70, 74–75, 84, 96, 103
  • climate, 1, 3–7, 22, 30–33, 62, 82, 96, 108, 113, 125
  • Cobain, Kurt, 2, 4, 55
  • Coccia, Emanuele, 66
  • Colebrook, Claire, 60, 67, 71, 84
  • colonialism, 3, 5–7, 10, 15, 28–29, 33–36, 46, 48–52, 58, 59, 66, 70
  • concert performance, 3, 6, 7, 10, 14–16, 19, 22–27, 31, 35–36, 42–43, 47–50, 52, 54–55, 57–58, 61, 63, 65–66, 69, 74–75, 89, 92, 94, 97, 101, 115
  • Coppola, Francis Ford, 54
  • Cowell, Henry, 24
  • Croft, Jennifer, 67
  • Crumb, George, 9, 24
  • Daigle, Christine, 68
  • Davies, Stephen, 59–60, 62–63, 66, 73, 75–76, 83
  • decay, of instruments, 1, 3–5, 8–11, 19, 21–22, 29–33, 42–43, 54, 61–62, 64, 68–71, 73, 76, 85, 87, 88, 97–98, 101, 111, 113, 119, 122
  • Decomposing Pianos duo, 27
  • decomposition, of instruments, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11–12, 14, 18–21, 27, 29, 32–40, 46, 52, 54, 61, 64, 66, 69–70, 73, 75–77, 87–88, 95, 97, 99, 111, 115–17, 119
  • defamiliarization, 10, 23, 36, 50, 52, 66, 73, 82–83, 90, 92–94, 96
  • Deleuze, Gilles, 69
  • Denes, Agnes, 32
  • Desilvey, Caitlin, 88
  • destruction, of instruments, 2–5, 8–11, 13–19, 21–22, 24, 26, 32, 50, 53–58, 60–65, 67–68, 70, 73, 75–76, 82–83, 98, 113, 117, 119, 121–22
  • deterritorialization, 67–70, 89, 140n94
  • Duchamp, Marcel, 22
  • earth, 7, 29, 31–32, 40–41, 71, 77, 98, 100, 104, 106, 113, 115
  • Earwalking Woman (Annea Lockwood), 25, 30, 59
  • ecocriticism, 7, 32, 43, 65
  • ecological repair, 104, 115
  • ecomusicology, 7
  • Edén, Mats, 100
  • elemental media, 8, 11, 20, 39–40, 42–43, 52, 61, 77, 87, 94, 98, 102, 114
  • Elíasson, Ólafur, 32, 70
  • Elleström, Lars, 11, 37–39, 45, 52, 61, 76
  • embodiment, 8, 35, 40, 42, 51, 59–61, 68, 76, 96, 105, 111, 116–17, 121
  • entanglement, 3–4, 7–8, 12, 14, 18, 31–32, 38–39, 54, 59–61, 64–65, 68, 74, 76, 81, 96, 97–98, 102, 111, 116
  • entrainment, 60, 74
  • environmental art, 3, 10, 14, 30–34
  • Erdrich, Louise, 51
  • Eurocentrism, 5, 7, 9, 11, 26, 28, 50, 52, 56
  • Ewan, Ruth, 22, 70
  • extended technique, 9, 24, 29, 59, 86, 92, 94, 112
  • Feldman, Morton, 25
  • feminism, 36, 66
  • fiddle, 3, 16, 21, 31, 106
  • fire, 2–6, 8–9, 11, 13, 16, 18–19, 22–24, 27, 31–32, 34, 40–41, 52, 55–58, 62, 64, 70, 76–77, 80–84, 96–97, 115, 117–18
  • flute, 11, 31, 47, 99, 102–6, 108, 114
  • Fluxus, 9, 14, 19, 22–23, 26, 34, 58, 70, 119
  • folk music, 3, 16, 31, 101
  • 4E cognition, 59
  • Franklin, Aretha, 49
  • Frantzen, Mikkel Krause, 64, 75
  • Gale, Nikita, 27
  • gender, 10, 51
  • Gibson, James, 50
  • Giddens, Rhiannon, 49
  • Gladko, Zhanna, 24
  • Goebel, Rolf, 61
  • Goldsworthy, Kerryn, 28
  • gospel music, 48–49
  • Grosz, Elizabeth, 60, 68–69
  • Grusin, Richard, 39–40, 54, 61, 75, 77, 81, 83
  • Guattari, Félix, 69
  • guitar, 2, 8–11, 17, 19, 25, 42, 55, 57–59, 62, 99–104, 114–15
  • habitat, 6, 23, 38, 40, 52, 61, 82, 88–89, 95, 102, 106, 111, 114–15
  • Hannan, Michael, 17
  • Hansen, Al, 58
  • Haraway, Donna, 66
  • harmonic systems, 44–45, 47, 49, 100, 111
  • harp, 46, 57, 77, 78–79, 81, 86, 97–98, 100–1, 103–5, 109–13, 117–18, 122
  • harpsichord, 43–47, 52, 69, 113, 122
  • Havsteen-Mikkelsen, Asmund, 18
  • hegemony, 10, 15, 28, 66
  • Hendrix, Jimi, 2, 4, 55
  • Hernandez, Katt, 104
  • Heshmati, Golnoosh, 113
  • Hildyard, Daisy, 61, 108
  • Hogg, Bennett, 17, 59, 99, 101–2
  • Horkheimer, Max, 67
  • Horn, Rebecca, 24
  • Huang-Kokina, Alexandra, 42, 121
  • humidity, 9, 11, 26, 34, 44, 69, 86, 88, 98, 111
  • hydraulis, 4, 23, 53
  • iconicity, 41, 63, 81, 87, 92–93, 112
  • improvisation, 14, 24–27, 29, 34, 47, 52, 69–70, 74, 81, 85–86, 99, 101, 103, 112
  • indexicality, 80–81, 92–93
  • Indigenous perspectives, 48–49, 51–52, 104
  • intermediality, 8, 10–11, 20, 36–37, 39–42, 52, 54, 61, 67, 73, 77, 98, 115, 117, 121
  • Iran, 3, 10, 15, 24, 57, 99, 113
  • Iraq, 53
  • ISSUE Project Room, 56, 76–79, 85, 88, 90–91, 95
  • jazz, 10, 42, 48–49, 70, 74, 99, 103
  • Jue, Melody, 41, 102
  • Keller, Simone, 27
  • Keylin, Vadim, 23
  • kinetic, 20, 61
  • Kittler, Friedrich, 102
  • Klangkörper, 103, 116
  • Kramer, Lawrence, 47, 100, 122
  • Krämer, Sybille, 74
  • Kubrick, Stanley, 53
  • Kudo, Shohei, 26–27
  • LaBelle, Brandon, 122
  • Lady Gaga, 2, 16, 76, 119
  • Latour, Bruno, 60, 61
  • Lindal, Johann Larson, 60
  • Liszt, Franz, 19, 47, 58–59, 61, 75
  • Lockwood, Annea, 4–6, 8, 9, 11, 14–15, 18–27, 30–34, 37–38, 50, 54, 56, 59, 62–66, 68–71, 76–79, 84–85, 88, 90–91, 96, 98, 99, 101, 109, 115, 119
  • Marclay, Christian, 58
  • Marx Brothers, 109
  • materiality, 3, 5, 7, 11, 19, 22–23, 28, 30, 33, 35, 40–42, 50–52, 60, 64–65, 67–68, 75, 81, 88, 96–97, 101, 104, 121
  • material modality, 38, 43, 61, 76–77, 82, 84, 89
  • Mayas, Magda, 24
  • McLuhan, Marshall, 61, 73
  • meaning-making, 11, 26, 38, 40–41, 67, 76
  • media archaeology, 22
  • media product, 37–38
  • Mendelssohn, Fanny, 47
  • Messaien, Olivier, 69
  • Metzger, Gustav, 10, 17, 19, 55
  • Monahan, Gordon, 27, 31
  • Moore, Stephan, 84
  • more-than-human connections, 3, 8, 11, 21, 36, 40, 64, 66, 69–70, 76, 97, 115, 117, 119
  • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 45
  • multimodality, 11
  • multisensory perception, 5, 12, 83–84, 116
  • musical scales, 11, 44–45, 87–88, 92, 106, 113
  • New Zealand, 6, 13, 28, 49, 50
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich, 15
  • nonhuman entities, 21, 30, 32–34, 39–41, 46, 61–62, 64–65, 67–68, 74, 76, 84, 89, 94, 96–97, 99, 108, 114, 116, 119
  • opera, 4, 15, 46, 47, 49, 53
  • Oppenheim, Dennis, 15, 21, 31
  • Orlikowska, Anna, 104, 122
  • Ortiz, Raphael Montañez, 19
  • Östersjö, Stefan, 8–9, 11, 17, 42, 51, 66, 98, 99–101, 103–4, 106, 108
  • overtones, 23, 44–46, 48, 53, 69, 93, 100, 106
  • Paik, Nam June, 58
  • Palonen, Matti, 101
  • Peters, John Durham, 8, 39–41, 52, 61–62, 65–66, 75, 77, 82–83, 87, 94, 97, 102
  • Phillips, Paul Travis, 56
  • Piano Transplants (Annea Lockwood), 1, 6, 8, 14, 21, 23, 26, 29, 31, 34, 37, 65, 70, 76, 96, 98, 99, 119
  • Plato, 3, 57
  • posthumanism, 8, 11, 36, 40–41, 52, 54, 60, 64–66, 68, 70–71, 73, 76, 84, 95–97, 116–17
  • Poulsen, Morten, 16
  • prepared piano, 14, 24–25, 88
  • Price, Florence, 49
  • Pritchard, Ynyr, 88, 93
  • Pythagorean system, 44
  • qualified media, 37–39, 50, 77, 83, 89
  • radical mediation, 8, 36, 39–40, 61, 77, 81–83, 87
  • Rancière, Jacques, 19, 21
  • Ravasio, Matteo, 59, 62–63, 66, 73, 76
  • renaturing, of instruments, 5, 11, 14, 20, 27–29, 32, 36, 39, 40, 65, 76, 99, 104–5, 109, 117
  • rhythm, 49, 51, 57, 60, 74–75, 86, 91–92, 98, 100
  • ritual, 3, 9, 14–20, 22, 31, 32, 34, 52, 115
  • Roberts, Sophy, 30
  • Robinson, Dylan, 51
  • rock, 54–55, 58, 115
  • Romanticism, 40, 49, 101–2
  • ruined pianos, 1, 5, 6, 9, 14, 22, 28–29, 30, 33–34, 50, 66
  • Rzewski, Fredric, 58, 81
  • Sakamoto, Ryuichi, 33
  • salvage, of musical materials, 5, 14, 21, 97, 109
  • Sansom, Matthew, 99
  • Scheidegger, Sarina, 104
  • Schubert, Franz, 47
  • Schumann, Clara, 47
  • Scott, Stephen, 29
  • semiosis, 37, 38
  • semiotic modality, 11, 38, 81, 86, 92–93
  • sensorial modality, 11, 38–39, 43–44, 51–52, 74, 76–77, 80, 82, 85, 89
  • Shiomi, Mieko, 19, 58
  • Shiota, Chiharu, 16–17
  • Smithson, Robert, 31
  • sonoclasm, 57, 119
  • Sorgner, Stefan, 65
  • sound sculpture, 8, 23
  • spatiotemporal modality, 11, 38, 51, 76, 80, 86, 91
  • Streich, Lisa, 24, 112
  • Superflex, 18
  • Swift, Taylor, 2, 14, 51
  • symbolic meaning potential, 10, 16, 36, 50, 56, 60, 81
  • tactility, 42, 117
  • Takatani, Shiro, 33
  • Taliban, 3, 57, 62
  • Taylor, Jason DeCaires, 32
  • technical device. See technical medium of display
  • technical medium of display, 37–39, 43, 45, 61, 74, 75, 83
  • tempered tuning, 10, 20, 30, 44–45, 51, 63, 113
  • Tomlinson, Gary, 66
  • Townshend, Pete, 17, 55
  • transformation, 4, 6, 8–9, 11, 15, 16, 22, 33, 40, 54, 62, 64, 70, 76, 78, 80–81, 83, 95, 113, 115, 117
  • transmediation, 42, 76, 77, 80, 83–84, 89
  • tree, as source of musical instruments, 4–5, 9, 11, 42, 62, 64, 88–89, 98, 100–101, 103, 106–9, 112–13, 116
  • Tsabar, Naama, 25
  • tuning systems, 44–45
  • Uexküll, Jakob von, 68
  • Vik, Synnøve, 19
  • violence, 1, 6, 8, 10, 14, 18, 21, 24, 49, 51, 53–54, 57–58, 60–61, 64, 69–70, 78, 81, 96, 113
  • violin, 8–9, 11, 17, 19, 42, 58–59, 62, 70, 99, 101–3, 112
  • Voegelin, Salomé, 7, 25
  • Vogel, Sabine, 11, 66, 99, 103–6
  • Wagner, Richard, 54, 65
  • WARPS World Association for Ruined Piano Studies, 29
  • Wassermann, Ute, 104
  • water, 4–6, 8, 11, 18–23, 26–27, 31, 34, 40–41, 70, 76–77, 88–96, 99–104, 108, 114–15, 119
  • weather, 5–6, 23, 34, 41–42, 69, 76, 84–86, 88, 95, 98–99, 101–3, 111
  • weathering, of instruments, 6, 8, 29, 85, 87–88, 111
  • Wilson, August, 49
  • Wright, Mark Peter, 7
  • Wrånes, Tori, 27
  • Yamashita, Yōsuke, 16
  • Žvinklytė, Jurgita, 101

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