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

Sonic time machines: explicit sound, sirenic voices, and implicit sonicity
ISBN-10
904852847X
ISBN-13
9789048528479
Category
Art
Pages
185
Language
English
Published
2016-04-26
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Author
Wolfgang Ernst

Description

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.

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