Earth Sound, Earth Signal : Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts.

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 Aele...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Kahn, Douglas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (344 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780520956834
0520956834
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.