Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0262111683 ISBN 13 : 9780262111683

Editeur : The MIT Press, 1992

Synopsis

Wireless Imagination addresses perhaps the most conspicuous silence in contemporary theory and art criticism, the silence that surrounds the polyphonous histories of audio art. Composed of both original essays and several newly translated documents, this book provides a close audition to some of the most telling and soundful moments in the "deaf century," conceived and performed by such artists as Raymond Roussel, Antonin Artaud, Marcel Duchamp, André Breton, John Cage, Hugo Ball, Kurt Weill, and William Burroughs. From the late nineteenth century to the 1960s, the essays uncover the fantastic acoustic scenarios projected through the writings of Raymond Roussel; the aural objects of Marcel Duchamp; Dziga Vertov's proposal for a phonographic "laboratory of hearing"; the ZAUM language and Radio Sorcery conjured by Velimir Khlebnikov; the iconoclastic castaways of F. T. Marinetti's La Radia; the destroyed musics of the Surrealists; the noise bands of Russolo, Foregger, Varèse, and Cage; the contorted radio talk show delivered by Antonin Artaud; the labyrinthine inner journeys invoked by German Hörspiel; and the razor contamination and cut-up ventriloquism of William S. Burroughs.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Douglas Kahn is Professor at the National Institute for Experimental Arts at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Noise Water Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts (MIT Press) and Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts and coeditor of Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde (MIT Press).

Gregory Whitehead is an audio artist who produces radio transmissions and events.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262111683
• ISBN 13: 9780262111683
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 468
• Éditeur: Kahn Douglas, Whitehead Gregory
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible