Dissertation Outline Abstract 424 Introduction 1517 Database Art 0 The Database in New Media Theory 0 Database as Form 415 33% A Semiotic Trap 844 67% Digital Convergence 553 44% Bodiless Information 642 51% Embodying Databasing 580 46% Filtering and Framing 434 34% Interlude: An Embodied Database 1905 152% Closing Remarks 354 28% Databasing and the History of Databases 0 Databasing: the performance of the database 2384 95% A Database Tree 926 37% The Realm of Data Structures 542 21% A Brief History of Database Models 2410 96% Databasing Sound: Applications of databases in sound 483 Music Information Retrieval 934 37% Sonification 2223 88% Computer Music 5398 215% Intersections 4009 160% Database Aesthetics 810 Listening Databases 0 Interlude: I am sitting in a room... 222 11% The Resonance of a Return 1515 80% Resonant Network 1480 78% The Unworking Network 2109 112% Databases and Memory 0 The Effraction of the Trace 1791 71% The Archontic Principle 1897 75% The Spectral Database 1629 65% Performativity of Databases 0 Gendered Database 1386 73% Towards the Limits 435 23% Contingencies of Style 2076 110% A Specter of Authority 1274 67% Rethinking Composition 0 Interlude: Hyperbolic Reactions 1247 116% Working Composition 1509 140% The Composer as Navigator 1467 136% The Database as Performer 2721 254% The severed object of music 1773 165% Anarchy and the unwork 1704 159% [WIP] work in progress 347 32% Afterword 845