Earth Sound Earth Signal

Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-520-25755-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 646 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kahn, Douglas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.