As "sound" approaches ever more closely the condition of music it too approaches a kind of writing, which is then retroactively revealed to have been "noisy" all along.

The Sounds of the Artificial Intelligentsia

As I thread my way through ebr, I touch base with the artificial intelligentsia that my work circulates in. The artificial intelligentsia is an internetworked intelligence that consists of all the linked data being distributed in cyberspace at any given time, one that is powered by artistic- intellectual agents remixing the flow of contemporary thought.

Sonic Contents: Why I Let the Litmixer Die and Other Stories

Trace Reddell introduces Sonic Contents.

Dub, Scratch, and the Black Star. Lee Perry on the Mix

Erik Davis listens to Lee Perry's work.

Rhythm Science, Part I

tobias c. van Veen reviews Paul D. Miller a.k.a. Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid's MIT publication, Rhythm Science.

The Phenomenology of Reverb

Jerome Rothenberg writes of the affective and effective power of reverb.

Acoustic Cyberspace

Erik Davis discusses the relationship between electronic sound and environment.

'I am a Recording Angel': Jack Kerouac's Visions of Cody and the Recording Process

James Riley on Jack Kerouac.

Sublime Frequencies' Ethnopsychedelic Montages

Marcus Boon explores the healing of traditional music.

9/11 Never Happened, President Bush Wouldn't Let It: Bob Dylan Replies to Henri Bergson

From event to non-event. Frank Seeburger deconstructs 9/11.

Above Us Only Sky: On Camus, U2, Lennon, Rock, and Rilke

Tim Keane on rock'n'roll awakenings and the lyrical existentialism of U2 (St Patrick's Day Special, 2005)

White Noise/White Heat, or Why the Postmodern Turn in Rock Music Led to Nothing but Road

Larry McCaffery reframes his 1989 essay on the "postmodern turn" in rock'n'roll music.

The Language of Music and Sound

Against the notion that music is the most abstract of art forms, Olivia Block thinks of music as a language with its own vocabulary of sounds, patterns, rhythms, notes. On the day of a performance in Kyoto, Japan, these reflections alter Block's sense of her own language, English, deconstructed by Japanese advertisements, tee-shirts, "American" candy-bar wrappers, and text-cell phones.

Working Progress, Working Title [Automystifstical Plaice]

graphics: Artists Rights Society; Performance for MIDI keyboard, pianola configurations, and click-track:G. Schirmer Rental; studio portrait of Hedy Lamarr: Roy George and Associates.

Responding to Kermani's "Wak Auf."

In her Sonic Spectrum survey, Elise Kermani invited readers to locate sounds on the spectrum from noise to sound to music. Here, Skip LaPlante responds with an autobiography in music, sound, and noise.

Stuttering Screams and Beastly Poetry

Allison Hunter writes on Douglas Kahn, a modern musicologist who takes in the noise of modern battle, recordings from the tops of trains and the interiors of coalmines, and the musicality of undigitized everyday noise.

A Disorganized Multilingual A to Z Poem

noise poem: Raymond Federman. audio recording and production: Eric Dean Rasmussen and Shaun Sandor

Music/Sound/Noise

The msn thread originated in the Fall of 2001 as an ebr special co-edited by Cary Wolfe, Mark Amerika, and Joseph Tabbi.

A Somewhat Legal Look at the Dawn and Dusk of the Napster Controversy

Paul C. Rapp, Esq., a.k.a. Lee Harvey Blotto, on the legal, cultural, and economic dimensions of the Napster controversy circa Y2K.

Tattoo it in Skin: A Literary Prediction

RVV Rob Wittig, Scriptor, fast forwards to a future when teenagers in neo-nikes and neo-soccer jerseys recreate ye olden days of the True Hip Hop Troubadour, circa Y2K.

New Beatle/Beach Boy Facts

Reflection on the two titans of entertainment and enlightenment.

Network Voices

Fifteen artists working along the blurry boundary of music, sound, and noise launch Alt-X Audio. curator: Mark Amerika.

When You Can't Believe Your Eyes: Voice, Vision, and the Prosthetic Subject in Dancer in the Dark

Cary Wolfe investigates why the reviewers were so rattled by the Lars von Trier film, and in the process puts Jacques Derrida, Stanley Cavell, Slavoj Zizek, and Judith Butler into conversation.

Primary Sounds

Reflections on Red/Yellow/Blue in the context of Music/Sound/Noise.

Litmixer: The Literary Remediator

With his software groovebox, Trace Reddell applies the tools and strategies of the DJ to the performance of literary interpretation and critical speculation.

The Sonic Spectrum

Elise Kermani writes about her work with sound and invites readers to locate sounds of their own on the spectrum from noise to sound to music. database programming: Allison Hunter and Ewan Branda.

To Clean the Ears

Kermani responds to LaPlante.

Wiring John Cage: Silence as a Global Sound System

Charles Baldwin on music in the new media ecology.