Dissonant Waves: Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the 20th century.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dolbear

Leslie, Esther, Author.

Contributor:

Library Stack, distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic music.

Hearing.

Nationalism.

Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc..

Sound.

Refugees.

Genre:

Discursive works

Critical Writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Goldsmiths Press, 2023.

[Place of publication not identified], Goldsmiths Press, 2023.

Summary:

"Dials, knobs, microphones, clocks; heads, hands, breath, voices. Ernst Schoen joined Frankfurt Radio in the 1920s as programmer and accelerated the potentials of this collision of bodies and technologies. As with others of his generation, Schoen experienced crisis after crisis, from the violence of war, the suicide of friends, economic collapse, and a brief episode of permitted experimentalism under the Weimar Republic for those who would foster aesthetic, technical, and political revolution. The counterreaction was Nazism - and Schoen and his milieux fell victim to it, found ways out of it, or hit against it with all their might. Dissonant Waves tracks the life of Ernst Schoen-poet, composer, radio programmer, theorist, and best friend of Walter Benjamin from childhood-as he moves between Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris, and London. It casts radio history and practice into concrete spaces, into networks of friends and institutions, into political exigencies and domestic plights, and into broader aesthetic discussions of the politicization of art and the aestheticization of politics. Through friendship and comradeship, a position in state-backed radio, imprisonment, exile, networking in a new country, re-emigration, ill-treatment, neglect, Schoen suffers the century and articulates its broken promises."-- provided by distributor.

Notes:

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