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Bruce Russell
What is Free? A Free Noise Manifesto
Practical Materialism: Lesson One - On the Guitar
Practical Materialism: Lesson Two - Thinking My Head to the Sky
Practical Materialism: Lesson Three - Concerning the Duende
Heaven on Earth is always a Beguiling Prospect - a dialogue between Bruce Russell and Danny Butt
Contra_Fludd/Contra-Kepler - The Disharmony of the Spheres Extolled in Ten Theses
Capital of the Minimal
Dunedin web feature edited by David Howard as part of Auckland University's web presence. It includes texts, interviews and/or MP3s with people like Brian Crook, Alastair Galbraith, Bruce Russell, Peter Stapleton et al

Phil Dadson -
Sound Stories 2005

The Object of Performance: Aural
Performativity in Contemporary Laptop Music
Caleb Stuart (PDF)

Adam Hyde
net.labels, an introduction v 0.2 -
As presented at Version festival seminar and written while Digital Artist in Residence, Waikato University

INTERNATIONAL
Fylkingen Net Journal - HZ
Articles including The Gender of Music

Phonography.org
writings on Field recording and the art of listening

International Improvised Music Archive- articles on Improv

John Cage - an Autobiographical Statement

Texts
on improvised and experimental music from Resonance magazine
(click on Publications)

Francisco Lopez
- essays

Dr. Kersten Glandien
Sound Art discourse in England
(for Ars Acoustica - EBU plenary meeting, BBC 13.12.2001)

Randolph Jordan
Mutek 2002, Part 1: Panels and Critical Discourse

CROSSFADE
focuses on sound as artistic medium.
2 essays with audio to be found here

Personal Reflections on Sound
essays from www.acousticecology.org

"Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative"
John Oswald - 1985
Found on http://www.plunderphonics.com/xhtml/xplunder.html
"This paper was initially presented by Oswald at the Wired Society Electro-Acoustic Conference in Toronto in 1985. It was published in Musicworks #34, as a booklet by Recommended Quarterly and subsequently revised for the Whole Earth Review #57 as 'Bettered by the borrower'. "

John Cage, Silence
History of Experimental Music in the United States

Luigi Russolo
'The Art of Noises'

The Aesthetics of Noise
- Torben Sangild

http://www.ubu.com/papers/
essays on sound down the bottom of this page

KNOWLEDGE
Bruce Russell
Interview in The National Grid with Luke Wood
Phil Dadson
Sound Stories 2005
Craccum Interview
with Sam Hamilton
Real Groove interview with Crude

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