1st Edition
Sonic Time Machines Explicit Sound, Sirenic Voices, and Implicit Sonicity
By Wolfgang Ernst
Copyright 2016
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Part I: DEFINITIONS OF SONICITY AND THE SONIC TIME MACHINE, INTRODUCTION: ON 'SONICITY' BEEING AS 'STIMMUNG' SONIC 'RE-PRESENCING' THE SONIC COMPUTER Part II: CULTURAL SOUNDINGS AND THEIR ENGINEERING RESONANCE OF SIREN SONGS: EXPERIMENTING WITH CULTURAL SONICITY TEXTUAL SONICITY. TECHNOLOGIZING ORAL POETRY Part III: TECHNO-SONICITY AND ITS BEEING-IN-TIME HISTORY OR RESONANCE? FROM SOUND SIGNAL TO ALPHANUMERIC SYMBOL RESCUED FROM THE ARCHIVE: ARCHAEONAUTICS OF SOUND SONIC ANALYTICS WORKS CITED ENGLISH NON-ENGLISH, INDEX
Biography
Wolfgang Ernst is full professor for Media Theories at the Institute for Musicology and Media Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin.
