Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
The Illustrated American
Author: The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph
Author: comte Th Du MoncelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Microphone
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
About Religion
Author: Mark C. TaylorPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226791623
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"Religion," Mark C. Taylor maintains, "is most interesting where it is least obvious." From global financial networks to the casinos of Las Vegas, from images flickering on computer terminals to steel sculpture, material culture bears unexpected traces of the divine. In a world where the economies of faith are obscure, yet pervasive, Taylor shows that approaching religion directly is less instructive than thinking about it. Traveling from high culture to pop culture and back again, About Religion approaches cyberspace and Las Vegas through Hegel and Kant and reads Melville's The Confidence-Man through the film Wall Street. As astonishing juxtapositions and associations proliferate, formerly uncharted territories of virtual culture disclose theological vestiges, showing that faith in contemporary culture is as unavoidable as it is elusive. The most accessible presentation of Taylor's revolutionary ideas to date, About Religion gives us a dazzling and disturbing vision of life at the end of the old and beginning of the new millennium.
Earth Sound Earth Signal
Author: Douglas KahnPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520257804
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
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. Grounded in the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing in telegraph lines and in the Aelectrosonic sounds of natural radio that Thomas Watson heard in telephone lines, the book moves through the histories of science, media, music, and the arts to the 1960s, when the composer Alvin Lucier worked with the ""natural electromagnetic sounds"" present from ""brainwaves to outer.
The Telegraph and Telephone Journal
Author: The Telephone
Author: Thomas Du MoncelPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337438685
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Library World
Author: Between Air and Electricity
Author: Cathy van EckPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501327607
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Composers and sound artists have explored for decades how to transform microphones and loudspeakers from “inaudible” technology into genuinely new musical instruments. While the sound reproduction industry had claimed perfect high fidelity already at the beginning of the twentieth century, these artists found surprising ways of use – for instance tweaking microphones, swinging loudspeakers furiously around, ditching microphones in all kinds of vessels, or strapping loudspeakers to body parts of the audience. Between air and electricity traces their quest and sets forward a new theoretical framework, providing historic background on technological and artistic development, and diagrams of concert and performance set-ups. From popular noise musician Merzbow to minimalist classic Alvin Lucier, cult instrument inventor Hugh Davies, or contemporary visual artist Lynn Pook – they all aimed to make audible what was supposed to remain silent.
Electrical Experimenter
Author: The Telegraphic Journal and Electrical Review
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ISBN:
Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 872
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