Sonic time machines: explicit sound, sirenic voices, and implicit sonicity

Our studies of aesthetics and knowledge have long tended to privilege the visual - at the expense, Wolfgang Ernst argues, of the aural. 'Sonic Time Machines' aims to correct that, presenting a striking new approach to theorising sound that investigates its split existence: as a temporal ef...

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Main Author: Ernst, Wolfgang 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press [2016]
Series:Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:Our studies of aesthetics and knowledge have long tended to privilege the visual - at the expense, Wolfgang Ernst argues, of the aural. 'Sonic Time Machines' aims to correct that, presenting a striking new approach to theorising sound that investigates its split existence: as a temporal effect in a techno-cultural context and as a source of knowledge and information. Ernst creates a new term for the concept at the heart of the book, "sonicity," a flexible and powerful term that allows him to consider sound with all its many physical, philosophical, and cultural valences
Physical Description:184 Seiten 24 cm
ISBN:9789089649492

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