Sonic Time Machines
Explicit Sound, Sirenic Voices, and Implicit Sonicity
Published on 1. October 2025
184 pages
978-1-040-77792-3 (ISBN)
Description
Our studies of aesthetics and knowledge have long tended to privilege the visual - at the expense, Wolfgang Ernst argues, of the aural. Sonic Time Machines aims to correct that, presenting a striking new approach to theorising sound that investigates its split existence: as a temporal effect in a techno-cultural context and as a source of knowledge and information. Ernst creates a new term for the concept at the heart of the book, sonicity, a flexible and powerful term that allows him to consider sound with all its many physical, philosophical, and cultural valences.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
13,10 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-77792-3 (9781040777923)
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Book
approx. 12/2025
1st Edition
Routledge
€67.30
Not yet published
Book
04/2016
Amsterdam University Press
€145.20
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Person
Wolfgang Ernst is full professor for Media Theories at the Institute for Musicology and Media Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin.
Content
Part I: DEFINITIONS OF SONICITY AND THE SONIC TIME MACHINE, INTRODUCTION: ON 'SONICITY' BEEING AS 'STIMMUNG' SONIC 'RE-PRESENCING' THE SONIC COMPUTER Part II: CULTURAL SOUNDINGS AND THEIR ENGINEERING RESONANCE OF SIREN SONGS: EXPERIMENTING WITH CULTURAL SONICITY TEXTUAL SONICITY. TECHNOLOGIZING ORAL POETRY Part III: TECHNO-SONICITY AND ITS BEEING-IN-TIME HISTORY OR RESONANCE? FROM SOUND SIGNAL TO ALPHANUMERIC SYMBOL RESCUED FROM THE ARCHIVE: ARCHAEONAUTICS OF SOUND SONIC ANALYTICS WORKS CITED ENGLISH NON-ENGLISH, INDEX
