| Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts Contributor(s): Kahn, Douglas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520257553 ISBN-13: 9780520257559 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music - Art | Digital |
| Dewey: 700.108 |
| LCCN: 2013014804 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.05 lbs) 344 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 of musicians, artists and scientists such as Alvin Lucier, Edmond Dewan, Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, James Turrell, Robert Barry, Joyce Hinterding, and many others. |