Chris Swithinbank

Over the last few years I have been work­ing with Irv­ing Goh on a spe­cial issue of CR: The New Cen­ten­nial Re­view and it is fi­nally on­line. It brings to­gether state­ments by com­posers Joanna Bailie, Ta­tiana Catan­zaro, Car­olyn Chen, Ash­ley Fure, and Fa­bien Lévy along­side es­says on music by Claire Cole­brook, Jef­frey Di Leo, Je­remy Brad­dock and Tim­o­thy Mor­ton, Jean-Luc Nancy, Naomi Waltham-Smith, and Holly Watkins. It also in­cludes my own text, ‘Who Vi­brates?,’ which tries to think about Car­olyn Chen’s music and how New Ma­te­ri­al­ist the­o­ries of vi­bra­tion, vi­brancy, and an­i­ma­tion in­ter­sect with colo­nial his­to­ries of race and sub­ject­hood.

I am very grate­ful to all our con­trib­u­tors who took the time to make this col­lec­tion pos­si­ble and to Irv­ing for in­clud­ing me in the pro­ject.

You can find the issue on Pro­ject Muse, JSTOR, or di­rectly from Michi­gan State Uni­ver­sity Press. Some of the pa­pers (or their drafts) are also avail­able from open ac­cess sources and I’ll try to keep this list up­dated as oth­ers come on­line:

• Irv­ing Goh, “Ed­i­tor’s Note: The Cry of Music”
• Claire Cole­brook, “Es­cap­ing Mean­ing, Es­cap­ing Music”
• Car­olyn Chen, “Parts to Sing Empty”
• Holly Watkins, “On Not Let­ting Sounds Be Them­selves”
• Chris Swith­in­bank, “Who vi­brates?”
• Ta­tiana Catan­zaro, “The Breath of Sound”
• Naomi Waltham-Smith, “A Music Wor­thy of the Name: Or, Agam­ben’s Mu­se­i­col­ogy”
• Jean-Luc Nancy, trans. Goh, “Vari­a­tions on the Reprise”