Loading the Silence: Australian Sound Art in the Post-Digital Age

The experimentalist phenomenon of ''noise'' as constituting ''art'' in much twentieth-century music (paradoxically) reached its zenith in Cage’s (’silent’ piece) 4’33. But much post-1970s musical endeavour with an experimentalist telos, collectively known as ''sound art'', has displayed a postmodern need to ’load’ modernism’s ’degree zero’. After contextualizing experimentalism from its incept...