Sonic time machines : explicit sound, sirenic voices, and implicit sonicity / Wolfgang Ernst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ernst, Wolfgang, 1959- author.

Series:

Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques.

Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Sound (Philosophy).

Sound in mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

10. Sonic analytics Notes; Works cited; Index.

Content; Preface; Foreword: Wolfgang Ernst's Media-archaeological soundings / Liam Cole Young; Part I

Definitions of Sonicity and the Sonic Time Machine; 1. Introduction: On 'sonicity'; 2. Beeing as 'Stimmung'; 3. Sonic re-presencing; 4. The sonic computer; Part II

Cultural Soundings and Their Engineering; 5. Resonance of siren songs: Experimenting cultural sonicity; 6. Textual sonicity: Technologizing oral poetry; Part III

Techno-Sonicity and Its Beeing-In-Time; 7. History or resonance?; 8. From sound signal to alphanumeric symbol; 9. Rescued from the archive: Archaeonautics of sound.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-003-70403-4

1-04-079260-X

90-485-2847-X

9781003704034

OCLC:

953970351