Wireless imagination : sound, radio and the avant-garde / edited by Douglas Kahn and Gregory Whitehead.
Contributor(s): Kahn, Douglas
| Whitehead, Gregory.
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BookPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1994Edition: 1st MIT Press paperback ed.Description: xi, 452 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 026261104X .Other title: Sound, radio and the avant-garde.Subject(s): Sound in art | Arts, Modern -- 20th century | Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- History -- 20th century | Radio artDDC classification: 700.904 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 700.904 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00005421 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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, Andre 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, Var se, and Cage; the contorted radio talk show delivered by Antonin Artaud; the labyrinthine inner journeys invoked by German H rspiel; and the razor contamination and cut-up ventriloquism of William S. Burroughs.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Histories of Sound Once Removed / Douglas Kahn -- The Phonograph's Horned Mouth / Charles Grivel -- The Lamentations of Edison, From L'Eve Future (1886) / Villiers de L'Isle-Adam -- Death in Light of the Phonograph: Raymond Roussel's Locus Solus / Douglas Kahn -- Marcel Duchamp's Gap Music: Operations in the Space Between Art and Noise / Craig Adcock -- Banging on the Windowpane: Sound in Early Surrealism / Christopher Schiff -- Give Me the Anathema, Lascivious Thing (1915) / Alberto Savinio -- Songs From the Museum of the Future: Russian Sound Creation (1910-1930) / Mel Gordon -- The Symphony of Sirens (1923) / Arseni Avrasamov -- Out of the Dark: Notes on the Nobodies of Radio Art / Gregory Whitehead -- La Radia (1933) / F. T. Marinetti, Pino Masnata -- Radio, Death, and the Devil: Artaud's Pour En Finir Avec Le Jugement De Dieu / Allen S. Weiss -- To have Done with the Judgment of God (1947) / Antonin Artaud -- Soundplay: The Polyphonous Tradition of German Radio Art / Mark E. Cory -- The Ear that Would Hear Sounds in Themselves: John Cage 1935-1965 / Frances Dyson -- Sound Identity Fading Out: William Burroughs' Tape Experiments / Robin Lydenberg
Author notes provided by Syndetics
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.