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

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    • Ernst, Wolfgang

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

Wolfgang Ernst

(Recursions : theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques)

Amsterdam University Press, c2016

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-177) and index

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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 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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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

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