Earth Sound Earth Signal
Download or Read eBook Earth Sound Earth Signal PDF written by Douglas Kahn and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Douglas Kahn |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2013-08-30 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780520257559 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0520257553 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Earth Sound Earth Signal by : Douglas Kahn
Book excerpt: 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.
