Earth Sound Earth Signal
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Earth Sound Earth Signal

  1. 343 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Earth Sound Earth Signal

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780520257801
eBook ISBN
9780520956834
Edition
1
Topic
Médias et arts de la scène
Subtopic
Musique

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Thomas Watson: Natural Radio, Natural Theology
  9. 2. Microphonic Imagination
  10. 3. The Aeolian and Henry David Thoreau’s Sphere Music
  11. 4. The Aelectrosonic and Energetic Environments
  12. 5. Inductive Radio and Whistling Currents
  13. 6. Alvin Lucier: Brainwaves
  14. 7. Edmond Dewan and Cybernetic Hi-Fi
  15. 8. Alvin Lucier: Whistlers
  16. 9. From Brainwaves to Outer Space: John Cage and Karl Jansky
  17. 10. For More New Signals
  18. 11. Sound of the Underground: Earthquakes, Nuclear Weaponry, and Music
  19. 12. Long Sounds and Transperception
  20. 13. Pauline Oliveros: Sonosphere
  21. 14. Thomas Ashcraft: Electroreceptor
  22. 15. Black Sun, Black Rain
  23. 16. Star-Studded Cinema
  24. 17. Robert Barry: Conceptualism and Energy
  25. 18. Collaborating Objects Radiating Environments
  26. 19. Joyce Hinterding: Drawing Energy
  27. 20. Earth-in-Circuit
  28. Notes
  29. Index