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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kahn, Douglas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; 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 Transperception13. 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.