Sonic Time Machines: Explicit Sound, Sirenic Voices, and Implicit Sonicity

By Wolfgang Ernst

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 104118638X
• ISBN13: 9781041186380
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 184 Pages