{"product_id":"boring-formless-nonsense-eldritch-priest-9781441122131","title":"Boring Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and the Aesthetics of Failure","description":"\u003ci\u003eBoring Formless Nonsense\u003c\/i\u003e intervenes in an aesthetics of failure that has largely been delimited by the visual arts and its avant-garde legacies. It focuses on contemporary experimental composition in which failure rubs elbows with the categories of chance, noise, and obscurity. In these works we hear failure anew. We hear boredom, formlessness, and nonsense in a way that gives new purchase to aesthetic, philosophical, and ethical questions that falter in their negative capability.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eReshaping current debates on failure as an aesthetic category, eldritch Priest shows failure to be a duplicitous concept that traffics in paradox and sustains the conditions for magical thinking and hyperstition. Framing recent experimental composition as a deviant kind of sound art, Priest explores how the affective and formal elements of post-Cagean music couples with contemporary culture's themes of depression, distraction, and disinformation to create an esoteric reality composed of counterfactuals and pseudonymous beings. Ambitious in content and experimental in its approach, \u003ci\u003eBoring Formless Nonsense\u003c\/i\u003e will challenge and fracture your views on failure, creativity, and experimental music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eldritch Priest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1441122133\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781441122131\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/17\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.00d","brand":"Eldritch Priest","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44213182365951,"sku":"9781441122131","price":47.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2e48afc6-6e66-444f-b9ab-05071c892e83.jpg?v=1692112500","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/boring-formless-nonsense-eldritch-priest-9781441122131","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}