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Author Kahn, Douglas

Title Earth Sound, Earth Signal : Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (344 pages)
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
Summary 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
Analysis 1960s
19th century
aelectrosonic sounds
aeolian sphere music
aesthetics
artists
arts
brainwaves
early sound technologies
earth magnitude
energies
global perspective
global transmissions
henry david thoreau
humanities
media studies
modern communications
modern world
music history
musicians
natural radio
nonfiction
outer space
science historians
science history
scientists
sound energy
telegraph lines
telephone
thomas watson
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Sound in art.
Radio noise.
ART -- Performance.
ART -- Reference.
MUSIC -- General.
Radio noise
Sound in art
Kunst
Eton Sprache
Hörfunk
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013014804
ISBN 9780520956834
0520956834