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Sonic time machines : explicit sound, sirenic voices, and implicit sonicity /
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 ef...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (184 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789048528479 904852847X |