douglas kahn

  • Sound Studies Journal, Vol 6, Issue 1

    Sound Studies Journal, Vol 6, Issue 1

    Sound Studies Journal has published its first issue of 2020, this time dedicated to explore “the vibrational materiality of sound and its status as an epistemological object”, as explained by Veit Erlmann from the University of Texas at Austin: “The…

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    Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts Douglas Kahn This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it–to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on…

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    Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts Douglas Kahn 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…

  • earth sound earth signal

    earth sound earth signal

    “Then it is possible to step back yet again and describe how the constitution of an electromagnetic plenitude was already underway during the twentieth century in the realm of sound synthesis, and how it related to notions of nature, control,…