Introduction: Definitions and caveats
Key works by John Cage; Éliane Radigue; Christopher DeLaurenti; Maryanne Amacher
1. Alphabet: Arbitrary and aleatory organization
Key works by Gilius van Bergeijk; Erik Carlson; Jasna Veličković; Cathy Berberian; Luis Andriessen; Alvin Lucier; Luiz Henrique Yudo; Mieko Shiomi
2. Birds: Nonhuman composers
Key works by Ezra Pound; Pamela Z; Cassandra Miller
3. Chess: Sonification of chessboards
Key works by John Cage; Atanas Bozdarov; Rodney Waschka; OPO; Francesco Ardan Dal Rì and Raul Masu; Michael Horgan; John White; Murielle Lucie-Clément
4. Data: Sonification of data
Key works by George Brecht; Alexander Chen; Johannes Kreidler; Edith Viau; Cassie Thornton; Marko Ciciliani; Tae Hong Park; David Pocknee
5. Errata: Chance and readymades
Key works by Marcel Duchamp
6. Forgery: Appropriation
Key works by Vito Acconci; Mekhitar Garabedian; Jane Pollard; Rosemary Brown; Mostly Other People Do the Killing
7. Glue: Collage and appropriation
Key works by Jim Hodges; Jennifer Walshe; Christopher Hobbs; Milan Knížák; Yasunao Tone; Maria Chavez; Nicolas Collins; Peter Ablinger; Lukas Foss; Rodney Graham; Katie Paterson; Todd Levin; Mauricio Kagel; Christian Marclay
8. Helix: Sonification of geometry
Key works by Cildo Meireles
9. IPA: Deskilling and translations of speech
Key works by Nate Wooley
10. Jeux de Dés: Chance and games
Key works by Robert Xavier Rodríguez; Tom Johnson; Hanne Darboven; Robert Ashley; Zexuan Qiao; Dave Soldier, Vitaly Komar, and Alexander Melamid; Percy Grainger
11. Kittens: Appropriation and deskilling
Key works by Cory Arcangel
12. Long: Computational durations
Key works by James Whitehead (jliat); Roc Jiménez de Cisneros and Stephen Sharp; David Pocknee; Cassandra Miller; Rodney Graham; Richard Beaudoin; Bethany Collins; Seth Kim Cohen; Leif Inge; Joanna Bailie; John Cage; Jem Finer; Ian Melish; Erik Satie; La Monte Young
13. Mute: Appropriation and erasure
Key works by Samson Young; Weronika Trojanska; Luke Nickel
14. Nature: Nonhuman composers, deskilled performances, systems
Key works by Raven Chacon; Dave Soldier; Sun Ra; Paul Panhuysen; Alvin Lucier; Nigel Helyer; Devin Maxwell
15. Organs: Appropriation
Key works by Eva-Maria Houben
16. Portraits: Sonification, appropriation, erasure
Key works by Clarence Barlow
17. Q&A: Chance and games
Key works by Ben Patterson
18. Rocks: Chance
Key works by Mineko Grimmer
19. Speech: Sonification of sounds
Key works by Peter Ablinger; Jacob ter Veldhuis; Florent Ghys
20. Tenebrae: Chance and systems
Key works by Toshi Ichiyanagi; György Ligeti; Yoko Ono
21. Ut Pictura Musica: Sonification of images
Key works by Philip Corner; Alvin Lucier; Charles Gaines; Sylvain Chauveau; Luiz Henrique Yudo
22. Vaginas: Yep.
Key works by Nam June Paik; Lauren Lesko; Miya Masaoka
23. Weave: Sonification and readymades
Key works by Stine Janvin and Cory Arcangel; Christopher Hobbs; John White; Brian Eno
24. Xylorimba: Appropriation and erasure
Key works by Lance Massey; James Hoff
25: Y-Intercept: Systems
Key works by Steve Reich
26. Zone: Systems
Key works by La Monte Young and Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index