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1 Online-Ressource (344 pages)
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9780520956834
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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
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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.
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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.
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English
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ISBN 9780520257801
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ISBN 0520257804
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ISBN 9780520257559
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ISBN 0520257553
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kahn, Douglas Earth Sound Earth Signal : Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2013 ISBN 9780520257559
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