Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts 9780520956834
Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in t
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English Pages 343 Year 2013
Table of contents :
Contents
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
