Journal of Sonic Studies, Vol. 5 (2013)
Filed under journal | Tags: · sound, sound art, sound studies
This issue of the JSS presents two items – a report of an expert meeting on auditory culture in Leiden (the Netherlands) and a handful of mini-essays inspired by a sound art exhibition at the ZKM Karlsruhe, both taking place in December 2012. The first features efforts to transgress scientific and academic barriers in and through sound studies, the second presents a new way to write around sound art.
Issue Editors: Marcel Cobussen, Jan Nieuwenhuis, Sharon Stewart, Vincent Meelberg
Publisher Leiden University Press, September 2013
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Comment (0)Edoardo Rovida: Machines and Signs: A History of the Drawing of Machines (2013)
Filed under book | Tags: · drawing, engineering, geometry, history of science, machine, mechanics, science, technology
“This volume addresses the cultural, technical and ethical motivations of the history of drawing of machines and its developments step by step. First it treats drawings without any technical character; then the Renaissance with its new forms of drawing; the 18th century, with orthographic projections, immediately used by industry; the 19th century, including the applications of drawing in industry; and the 20th century, with the standardization institutions and the use of the computer. The role of historical drawings and archives in modern design is also examined.
This book is of value to all those who are interested in technical drawing, either from an artistic, from a design, or from an engineering point of view.”
Publiher Springer, 2013
Volume 17 of History of Mechanism and Machine Science series
ISBN 9400754078, 9789400754072
247 pages
Johannes Friedrich: Extinct Languages (1954/1957)
Filed under book | Tags: · antiquity, cuneiform, language, writing
This is the story of the art of deciphering forgotten languages and scripts. In this engaging and readable book author Friedrich, one of the foremost experts in both linguistics and archaeology, first describes the languages and scripts of the Ancient Orient, then proceeds on an intellectual journey that will take the reader through Egyptian Hieroglyphics, the cuneiform writing of Mesopotamia, the interpretation of Sumerian records, the scripts of the hittites and finally the languages of Ancient Italy.
First published as Entzifferung Verschollener Schriften und Sprachen, Springer, 1954
Translated by Frank Gaynor
Publisher Philosophical Library, New York, 1957
182 pages
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