Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction »

Caleb Kelly is a lecturer at the Sydney College of Art, the University of Sydney, Australia.

How the deliberate cracking and breaking of playback media has produced experimental music and sound by artists and musicians ranging from Nam June Paik and Christian Marclay to Yasunao Tone and Oval.

Introduction 1

1 Recording and noise: approaches to cracked media 44

2 Broken music: the manipulated, modified, and destroyed phonograph 84

3 Damaged sound: glitching and skipping compact discs in the audio of Yasunao Tone, Nicolas Collins, Oval, and disc 210

4 Tactics, shadows, and new media 284

Notes 322

Bibliography 355

Index 376