Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kahn, Douglas / Whitehead, Gregory, PUBLISHER: MIT Press (MA), "Wireless ong>Imaginationong>" addresses perhaps ong>theong> most conspicuous silence in contemporary ong>theong>ory and art criticism, ong>theong> silence that surrounds ong>theong> polyphonous histories of audio art. Composed of both original essays and several newly translated documents, this book provides a close audition to some of ong>theong> most telling and soundful moments in ong>theong> "deaf century," conceived and performed by such artists as Raymond Roussel, Antonin Artaud, Marcel Duchamp, Andre Breton, John Cage, Hugo Ball, Kurt Weill, and William Burroughs.