Author: Francis Bacon
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 1913462307
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Francis Bacon's classic technological utopia brought to life for the modern sonic arts. In the early seventeenth century, at the very end of his life, the English statesman and philosopher Francis Bacon wrote a utopian fable called New Atlantis, containing an uncanny presentiment of twentieth-century electronic music. Now, four hundred years ago, music writer Robert Barry digs into the significance of that tale for the history of music, media, science and the senses. New Atlantis marked a significant turning point in the history of utopian literature -- not to mention the pre-history of science fiction, and even modern science itself. At the heart of the island paradise stumbled upon by Bacon's stranded sailors is a research institute called Bensalem where the locals practice "all sounds and their generation". The passage was sufficiently inspiring that Daphne Oram quoted it in full and pinned it to the wall of the newly opened BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1957. Newly re-united with extracts from the Sylva Sylvarum, a notebook of real experiments that New Atlantis originally came bound with in the seventeenth century, this new publication seeks to bring Bacon's ideas to life for a new generation of artists and scholars engaged in the sonic arts, media archeology, and science studies. New Atlantis is presented with a brand new introduction by author and musician Robert Barry, which lays out the continuing relevance of Bacon's utopia for the place of sound and technology in the arts to this day.
New Atlantis and Selections from the Sylva Sylvarum
Author: Francis Bacon
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 1913462307
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Francis Bacon's classic technological utopia brought to life for the modern sonic arts. In the early seventeenth century, at the very end of his life, the English statesman and philosopher Francis Bacon wrote a utopian fable called New Atlantis, containing an uncanny presentiment of twentieth-century electronic music. Now, four hundred years ago, music writer Robert Barry digs into the significance of that tale for the history of music, media, science and the senses. New Atlantis marked a significant turning point in the history of utopian literature -- not to mention the pre-history of science fiction, and even modern science itself. At the heart of the island paradise stumbled upon by Bacon's stranded sailors is a research institute called Bensalem where the locals practice "all sounds and their generation". The passage was sufficiently inspiring that Daphne Oram quoted it in full and pinned it to the wall of the newly opened BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1957. Newly re-united with extracts from the Sylva Sylvarum, a notebook of real experiments that New Atlantis originally came bound with in the seventeenth century, this new publication seeks to bring Bacon's ideas to life for a new generation of artists and scholars engaged in the sonic arts, media archeology, and science studies. New Atlantis is presented with a brand new introduction by author and musician Robert Barry, which lays out the continuing relevance of Bacon's utopia for the place of sound and technology in the arts to this day.
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 1913462307
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Francis Bacon's classic technological utopia brought to life for the modern sonic arts. In the early seventeenth century, at the very end of his life, the English statesman and philosopher Francis Bacon wrote a utopian fable called New Atlantis, containing an uncanny presentiment of twentieth-century electronic music. Now, four hundred years ago, music writer Robert Barry digs into the significance of that tale for the history of music, media, science and the senses. New Atlantis marked a significant turning point in the history of utopian literature -- not to mention the pre-history of science fiction, and even modern science itself. At the heart of the island paradise stumbled upon by Bacon's stranded sailors is a research institute called Bensalem where the locals practice "all sounds and their generation". The passage was sufficiently inspiring that Daphne Oram quoted it in full and pinned it to the wall of the newly opened BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1957. Newly re-united with extracts from the Sylva Sylvarum, a notebook of real experiments that New Atlantis originally came bound with in the seventeenth century, this new publication seeks to bring Bacon's ideas to life for a new generation of artists and scholars engaged in the sonic arts, media archeology, and science studies. New Atlantis is presented with a brand new introduction by author and musician Robert Barry, which lays out the continuing relevance of Bacon's utopia for the place of sound and technology in the arts to this day.
Sylva sylvarum (New Atlantis) ... Whereunto is newly added the History Naturall and Experimentall of Life and Death ... The sixt sic edition
Sylva Sylvarum: Or a Naturall Historie in Ten Centuries
Author: William Rawley (Theologe, Übersetzer)
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Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Sylva Sylvarum: Or, A Natural History. In Ten Centuries;
Author: Francis Bacon
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Category : Death (Biology)
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Category : Death (Biology)
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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New Atlantis
Author: Francis Bacon
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Category : Utopias
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Utopias
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Sylva Sylvarum ; Or, a Naturall Historie ; in Ten Centuries ... New Atlantis ... a Worke Unfinished
Sylva Sylvarum (New Atlantis) ... Whereunto is Newly Added the History Naturall and Experimentall of Life and Death ... The Sixt Sic Edition.
The New Atlantis
Sylva sylvarum. (Centuries IX-X) New Atlantis. Mr. Bacon in praise of knowledge. Valerius terminus of the interpretation of nature: a few fragments of the first book. Filium labyrinthi, sive formula inquisitionis. Sequela chartarum, sive inquisitio legitima de calore et frigore. Physiological remains. Medical remains. Medical receipts. Works moral. (A fragment of the colours of good and evil. Essays or counsels civil and moral. A collection of apophthegms, new and old. Ornamenta rationalia. Short notes for civil conversation. An essay on death.) Theological works
Author: Francis Bacon
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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