Sonic time machines

2025

Boek; 184 p ill

First published in 2016 by Amsterdam University Press. - Inhoud: Preface -- Foreword : Wolfgang Ernst's media-archaeological soundings -- 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 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. - Met noten. - Met bibliografie. - Met index

"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." -- Provided by publisher

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ISBN: 978-1-041-18638-0

VUBIS: 2:106794