Don Ihde: Listening and Voice: Phenomenologies of Sound (1976/2007)
Filed under book | Tags: · hermeneutics, infrasound, metaphysics, ontology, perception, phenomenology, philosophy, polyphony, sound recording, technology, voice
“Listening and Voice is an updated and expanded edition of Don Ihde’s groundbreaking 1976 classic in the study of sound. Ranging from the experience of sound through language, music, religion, and silence, clear examples and illustrations take the reader into the important and often overlooked role of the auditory in human life. Ihde’s newly added preface, introduction, and chapters extend these sound studies to the technologies of sound, including musical instrumentation, hearing aids, and the new group of scientific technologies which make infra- and ultra-sound available to human experience.”
First published by Ohio University Press, 1976
Second edition
Publisher SUNY Press, 2007
ISBN 0791472558, 9780791472552
276 pages
Reviews: V. A. Howard (Journal of Aesthetic Education, 1978), Ansa Lønstrup (MedieKultur, 2010).
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Comments (2)Neil Rhodes, Jonathan Sawday (eds.): The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print (2000)
Filed under book | Tags: · history of technology, hypertext, knowledge, memory, print, renaissance, storage, technology
In the fifteenth century the printing press was the ‘new technology’. The first ever information revolution began with the advent of the printed book, enabling Renaissance scholars to formulate new ways of organising and disseminating knowledge.
As early as 1500 there were already 20 million books in circulation in Europe. How did this rapid explosion of ideas impact upon the evolution of new disciplines?
The Renaissance Computer looks at the fascinating development of new methods of information storage and retrieval which took place at the very beginning of print culture. And it asks some crucial questions about the intellectual conditions of our own digital age. A dazzling array of leading experts in Renaissance culture explore topics of urgent significance today, including:
* the contribution of knowledge technologies to state formulation and national identity
* the effect of multimedia, orality and memory on education
* the importance of the visual display of information and how search engines reflect and direct ways of thinking.
Publisher Routledge, 2000
ISBN 0415220637, 9780415220637
212 pages
Brandon LaBelle: Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (2006)
Filed under book | Tags: · music, music history, noise, sound art, sound recording
The rise of a prominent auditory culture, as seen in the recent plethora of art exhibitions on sound art, in conjunction with academic programs dedicated to “aural culture”, sonic art, and auditory issues now emerging, reveals the degree to which sound art is lending definition to the 21st Century. And yet sound art still lacks related literature to compliment, and expand, the realm of practice.
Background Noise sets out an historical overview, while at the same time shaping that history according to what sound art reveals – the dynamics of art to operate spatially, through media of reproduction and broadcast, and in relation to the intensities of communication and its contextual framework.
Publisher Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006
ISBN 0826418457, 9780826418456
316 pages
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