Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Absence and Music Thinking Christine Dysers, Peter Edwards, Judith Lochhead I. Residual Energies 1. The Texture of Memory: Quotation as Absent Presence in Caroline Shaw's Gustave Le Gray Mark Hutchinson 2. Presentifying Absence: Memorial Practices in Sample-based Music Lorenzo Montefinese 3. Vaporwave, Hypnosis and the Mimetic Voice Alec Wood 4. Voidgaze and Phantom Genres: Functions and Dysfunctions of Music Genres on Streaming Platforms Mattia Merlini II. Erasures 5. On the Absence of Female Singing: Law and Praxis in Iran Payam Pilvar 6.

Lacuna and Parergon in Late Vocal Works by Hans Joachim Hespos Clare Lesser 7. Transitions into Absence: On the Musical Aesthetics of Disappearance Jakob Maria Schermann III. Precarities 8. The Lament, Loss and the Power of Speaking in Music Peter Edwards 9. The Music of Trauma: Tracing the Real in Wang Xilin's Piano Concerto Op. 56 Arturo Irisarri Izquierdo 10. Olga Neuwirth's CoronAtion Cycle : Into the Void and Beyond Martina Bratic IV. Overload 11.

Music for Uncertain Times: Excess, Loss and the Abyss Christine Dysers 12. Absence, Non-Absence, Words and Music in Kurtág's Fin de partie Mark Berry 13. Listening Within the Absence : The Musical Potential of Noise in the Compositions of Peter Ablinger Marina Sudo V. Negative Space 14. The Ontoriography of Music in the Twenty-First Century: Absence and Identification Samuel J. Wilson 15. 'I Wish You Could Hear This': Sonic Absence, Subjective Point-of-Audition and d/Deaf Sensoriality in Contemporary Television Peter Adams 16. Spiritual and Aesthetic Spaces in Arvo Pärt's Lamentate and Adam's Lament Kristina Socanski Celik 17.

On the Airy Touch of Music: Sonic Thinking in Pandemic Times Judith Lochhead Works Cited Contributors Index.