Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde

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Douglas Kahn (Professor of Media and Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney) Gregory Whitehead

Wireless Imagination

Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde

Douglas Kahn (Professor of Media and Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney), Gregory Whitehead

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MIT Press
25 July 1994

The Arts: General & Reference; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -

Series: Wireless Imagination

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.

Edited by: Douglas Kahn (Professor of Media and Innovation University of New South Wales Sydney), Gregory Whitehead
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 224mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 635g
ISBN: 9780262611046
ISBN 10: 026261104X
Series: Wireless Imagination
Pages: 468
Publication Date: 25 July 1994
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde

"""Think of this book as a radio station with some really good shows. Think of yourself as a radio."" Joshua Clover, San Francisco Review of Books ""Wireless Imagination is a beautifully produced collection of essays on the interplay between art, noise, experimental music, and technology... An enlightening exploration of a little-known area of art history."" Gareth Branwyn, Wired"