Wireless Imagination by Douglas Kahn - ISBN: 9780262611046
Paperback
This work addresses the silence that surrounds the polyphonous histories of audio art in contemporary theory and art criticism. It provides an audition to music and sound conceived and performed by such artists as Raymond Roussel, Antonin Artaud and Marcel Duchamp.

Wireless Imagination

Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde

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  • Paperback

    468 pages

  • Release Date

    25 July 1994

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Summary

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,…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262611046
ISBN-10:026261104X
Author:Douglas Kahn, Gregory Whitehead
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:468
Edition:New edition
Release Date:25 July 1994
Weight:635g
Dimensions:224mm x 152mm x 28mm
Series:Wireless Imagination
Audience Age:18
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“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

About The Author

Douglas Kahn

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.

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