Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts
by Douglas Kahn
- Author(s)
- Douglas Kahn
- Publication
- Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London : University of California Press, 2013
- Scope
- 336 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780520257559
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. Douglas Kahn begins by evoking the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing along telegraph lines and the Aelectrosonic sounds of natural radio that Thomas Watson heard through the first telephone; he then traces the histories of science, media, music, and the arts to the 1960s and beyond. Earth Sound Earth Signal rethinks energy at a global scale, from brainwaves to outer space, through detailed discussions of musicians, artists and scientists such as Alvin Lucier, Edmond Dewan, Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, James Turrell, Robert Barry, Joyce Hinterding, and many others.
- Person as subject
- Alvin Lucier, Edmond Dewan, Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, James Turrell, Robert Barry, Joyce Hinterding
- Keywords
- land art , landscape , sound art , sound
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 1: Geluid ; kunst
- Remarks
- Incl. bibliographical references and Index.
