Sonic Time Machines

Sonic Time Machines

Explicit Sound, Sirenic Voices, and Implicit Sonicity

  • Autor: Ernst, Wolfgang
  • Editor: Amsterdam University Press
  • Colección: Recursions
  • ISBN: 9789089649492
  • eISBN Pdf: 9789048528479
  • Lugar de publicación:  Amsterdam , Holanda
  • Año de publicación digital: 2016
  • Mes: Abril
  • Páginas: 184
  • Idioma: Ingles
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.
  • Content
  • Preface
  • Foreword: Wolfgang Ernst’s Media-archaeological soundings / Liam Cole Young
  • 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

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