Earth Sound Earth Signal
Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts
1st Edition
Published on 31. August 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
344 pages
978-0-520-25755-9 (ISBN)
Description
Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day. Douglas Kahn begins by evoking the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing along telegraph lines and the Aelectrosonic sounds of natural radio that Thomas Watson heard through the first telephone; he then traces the histories of science, media, music, and the arts to the 1960s and beyond. Earth Sound Earth Signal rethinks energy at a global scale, from brainwaves to outer space, through detailed discussions of musicians, artists and scientists such as Alvin Lucier, Edmond Dewan, Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, James Turrell, Robert Barry, Joyce Hinterding, and many others.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
33 b-w photographs
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
646 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-25755-9 (9780520257559)
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Person
Douglas Kahn is Professor of Media and Innovation at the National Institute for Experimental Arts at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is author or editor of several books, including Noise Water Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts and, most recently, Source: Music of the Avant-Garde and Mainframe Experimentalism.
Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Thomas Watson: Natural Radio, Natural Theology 2. Microphonic Imagination 3. The Aeolian and Henry David Thoreau's Sphere Music 4. The Aelectrosonic and Energetic Environments 5. Inductive Radio and Whistling Currents 6. Alvin Lucier: Brainwaves 7. Edmond Dewan and Cybernetic Hi-Fi 8. Alvin Lucier: Whistlers 9. From Brainwaves to Outer Space: John Cage and Karl Jansky 10. For More New Signals 11. Sound of the Underground: Earthquakes, Nuclear Weaponry, and Music 12. Long Sounds and Transperception 13. Pauline Oliveros: Sonosphere 14. Thomas Ashcraft: Electroreceptor 15. Black Sun, Black Rain 16. Star-Studded Cinema 17. Robert Barry: Conceptualism and Energy 18. Collaborating Objects Radiating Environments 19. Joyce Hinterding: Drawing Energy 20. Earth-in-Circuit Notes Index