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Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts
Douglas Kahn
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Description for Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts
paperback. Offers 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. This book moves through the histories of science, media, music, and the arts to the 1960s. Num Pages: 344 pages, 33 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: AV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 488.
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. Douglas Kahn begins by evoking the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing along telegraph lines and the Aelectrosonic sounds of natural radio that Thomas Watson heard through the first telephone; he then traces the histories of science, media, music, and the arts to the 1960s and beyond. Earth Sound Earth Signal rethinks energy at a global scale, from brainwaves to outer space, through detailed discussions ... Read more
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. Douglas Kahn begins by evoking the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing along telegraph lines and the Aelectrosonic sounds of natural radio that Thomas Watson heard through the first telephone; he then traces the histories of science, media, music, and the arts to the 1960s and beyond. Earth Sound Earth Signal rethinks energy at a global scale, from brainwaves to outer space, through detailed discussions ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520257559
SKU
KJH0000267
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Ref
99-1
About Douglas Kahn
Douglas Kahn is Professor of Media and Innovation at the National Institute for Experimental Arts at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is author or editor of several books, including Noise Water Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts and, most recently, Source: Music of the Avant-Garde and Mainframe Experimentalism.
Reviews for Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts
"Another unmissable text in sound art research." Neural