Sonic Time Machines : : Explicit Sound, Sirenic Voices, and Implicit Sonicity / / Wolfgang Ernst.

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 te...

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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Recursions
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Physical Description:1 online resource (184 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Content
  • Preface
  • Foreword: Wolfgang Ernst's Mediaarchaeological soundings
  • 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
  • 10. Sonic analytics
  • Notes
  • Works cited
  • Index