Our studies of aesthetics and knowledge have long tended to privilege the visual - at the expense, Wolfgang Ernst argues, of the aural. Sonic Time Machines aims to correct that, presenting a striking new approach to theorising sound that investigates its split existence: as a temporal effect in a techno-cultural context and as a source of knowledge and information. Ernst creates a new term for the concept at the heart of the book, "sonicity," a flexible and powerful term that allows him to consider sound with all its many physical, philosophical, and cultural valences.
- ISBN10 9089649492
- ISBN13 9789089649492
- Publish Date 25 April 2016
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country NL
- Imprint Amsterdam University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 184
- Language English
- URL http://aup.nl/index.php/catalogsearch/result/?q=9789089649492