uses a broad and agile music-analytical lens to dive deep into noise music; in doing this, it is the first book to focus exclusively and comprehensively on the
of noise music, as opposed to contextual questions of politics, history or sociology.
Using technical description and a range of visualisation tools in analyzing musical shape and organization, this book applies various hermeneutical lenses to draw meaning out of that analysis. Each chapter begins by setting out the context of the music under discussion and uses a variety of analytical techniques from inside and outside semiotics – the analytical breadth befitting the unusual collection of musics being analyzed. The book takes a descriptive approach that seeks to unite theoretical, technical and conceptual domains in interpreting noise music as style and structure. Relevant to both musicology and noise audiences, this book investigates a vital but analytically underexplored area of avant-garde musical practice.

Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map, but must now be understood as a series of vertical strata that reach from the satellites that encircle our planet to the tunnels deep within the ground. In Vertical, Stephen Graham rewrites the city at every level: how the geography of inequality, politics, and identity is determined in terms of above and below.
Starting at the edge of earth’s atmosphere and, in a series of riveting studies, descending through each layer, Graham explores the world of drones, the city from the viewpoint of an aerial bomber, the design of sidewalks and the hidden depths of underground bunkers. He asks: why was Dubai built to be seen from Google Earth? How do the super-rich in São Paulo live in their penthouses far above the street? Why do London billionaires build vast subterranean basements? And how do the technology of elevators and subversive urban explorers shape life on the surface and subsurface of the earth?
Vertical will make you look at the world around you anew: this is a revolution in understanding your place in the world.