Sonic Time Machines - Explicit Sound, Sirenic Voices, and Implicit Sonicity

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.

Product details

• Authors: Prof. Wolfgang Ernst, Wolfgang Ernst
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.04.2016
• EAN: 9789089649492
• ISBN: 978-90-8964-949-2
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Recursions; Recursions; Amsterdam University Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries