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Ernst, Wolfgang

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

2016 - Amsterdam university press

184 p.

  • 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. [Publisher's text].