Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts

by Douglas Kahn

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520257553
• ISBN13: 9780520257559
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"