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Liza Lim’s Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus Ty Bouque

Bloomsbury Collections: Music & Sound Studies 2026 Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Bouque, Tyler J., 2000- author.
Series:
33 1/3 Oceania
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Lim, Liza, 1966- Extinction events and dawn chorus.
Lim, Liza.
Avant-garde (Music)--Australia.
Avant-garde (Music).
Australia.
Genre:
Music criticism and reviews
Music criticism and reviews.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Place of Publication:
New York Bloomsbury Academic 2026
Summary:
"A critical guide to the experimental music compositions of Australian composer Liza Lim's post-climate crisis album, Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus. When humans have gone, what will become of singing? Across her 2020 album, Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus, Liza Lim dreams of how nature itself would sing on that first morning after the death of humanity. Creaking vestiges of Western music swirl in oceanic gyres with choruses of bioluminescent fish; plastic trash is taught to sing by magical animating forces; and music itself rises in the absence of all humans to speak in tongues we will never understand. In this roving collection of essays, Ty Bouque traces the many currents of Lim’s album to better understand how music might teach us to imagine timescales and environments beyond our own. Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus unpacks Australian music’s most profound statement on the climate crisis to date, and asks, without the promise of an answer: what would be the music of a drowned, post-human world?"-- Bloomsbury Collections
Contents:
Introduction : On believing otherwise
Admission
Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus
A postscript or a discussion or an opening again
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Online resource; title from home page (Bloomsbury Collections , viewed August 24, 2026)
Other Format:
Print version: Bouque, Tyler J., 2000- Liza Lim’s Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus
ISBN:
9798216443162
9798216443124
9798216443155
OCLC:
1597389670
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license

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