Noise, Water, Meat A History of Sound in the Arts

Name: Noise, Water, Meat A History of Sound in the Arts
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ISBN: 9780262611725

ISBN-10: 0262611724

ISBN-13: 9780262611725

Edition: 2001 (Reprint)

Authors: Douglas Kahn

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This text is an interdisciplinary history of sound in the arts, that reads the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism. It explores aural activities in literature, visual arts, theatre and film.

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/24/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 466
Size: 7.01" wide x 9.03" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Listening through History;


Prelude: Modernism


Explanations and Qualifications



Significant Noises



Immersed in Noise


Sentient Sound


Interpolation of Noise


Protean Noise


Oscillator Noise



Noises of the Avant-Garde


Bruitism


Noise and Simultaneity


The Future of War Noises



Drawing the Line: Music, Noise, and Phonography



Concerning the Line


Resident Noises


The Gloss of the Gliss


Beethoven at Fifty Times per Second


"I, the Accelerated Line"



The Sound of Music


Demarcated Sounds


Drawing the Line in Theory


Synesthesia as Noise Abatement



Ubiquitous Recording


The Rotary Revolution


Russian Revolutionary Film



The Impossible Inaudible



John Cage: Silence and Silencing


Much to Confess about Nothing


Canned Silence


Silencing Techniques


Cage and the Impossible Inaudible



Nondissipative Sounds and the Impossible Inaudible


Inaudibly Loud, Long-Lasting, Far-Reaching


Machines of Nondissipation



The Parameters of All Sound


Loud Sounds


Conceptual Sounds



Water Flows and Flux



A Short Art History of Water Sound


Water Music


Dripping


Surrealism and Submerged Women



In the Wake of Dripping: New York at Midcentury


The Object of Performance


Allan Kaprow: Immersed Noisician


George Brecht's Drip Music



Meat Voices



Two Sounds of the Virus: William Burroughs's Pure Meat Method


A Culture for Growing Viruses


Schlupping


On Goo Behavior


The Cancer Virus


Cellular Phones



Cruelty and the Beast: Antonin Artaud and Michael McClure


Artaud in America


Musical Artauds: Tudor and Cage


Beats Language


Beast Language


Affected and Afflicted Screaming


Seraphic Screams and the Tortuous Blast


Notes


Index