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Earth Sound, Earth Signal : Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts.

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. Grounded in the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing in telegraph lines and in the Aele...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kahn, Douglas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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. Grounded in the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing in telegraph lines and in the Aelectrosonic sounds of natural radio that Thomas Watson heard in telephone lines, the book moves through the histories of science, media, music, and the arts to the 1960s, when the composer Alvin Lucier worked with the ""natural electromagnetic sounds"" present from ""brainwaves to outer.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (344 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780520956834
0520956834