Resonance
Subtitle: philosophy for sonic art
By: Peter Price
Publisher: Atropos Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780983915218
Subjects: Sound (Philosophy); Music; Philosophy and aesthetics; Art and music; Son (Philosophie); Musique; Philosophie et esthétique; Art et musique; Musikestetik
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The figure of resonance. Resonance as a material process ; The subject as resonance effect; title: Between sound and music. Material specificity of the sonic ; Sound and mathematics: the Pythagorean trap ; Music and language ; Music and the visual; title: The semiotics and political economy of music; title: The trajectory of music in the west. The Pythagorean heritage ; The monastic origins of polyphony ; The baroque and Cartesian subjectivity ; Kunstreligion: music and the numinous ; Between Nietzsche and Wagner ; The Schoenberg event ; John Cage and Gelassenheit; title: Digital sound and the post-human future. The sound of global commodity circulation ; Heidegger and technology ; Schirmacher's media artist of artificial life ; Deleuze, Guattari and the becoming-cosmic of music; title: Openings to new sonic art. Sound art as conceptual art ; Alternate modernisms/experimental music ; The culture of the remix.