Sound Stream: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics
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Sound Stream: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics
14.99 €
The last decades have witnessed a shift "from music to sound" in contemporary culture, as the term "music" no longer corresponds to the rapid development of new artistic genres and cultural attitudes. This shift has resulted, on the one hand, in the rapid development of sound art and, on the other hand, in the flourishing of Sound Studies in the humanities. The task of Christoph Cox's book is to explain the "sonic turn" in art and culture, and to show how sound invades and renews the territory of philosophy.
In accomplishing this task, the author challenges the mainstream concepts of contemporary cultural theory based on discourse and language analysis and declares the need for a new materialist aesthetics not only of sound, but of art in general. Central to the book becomes the concept of the sound stream, an anonymous materialist force that precedes and transcends human subjective experience. In an attempt to construct a realist and naturalistic model for describing sound, Cox turns to the ideas of Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, and Manuel Delanda, illustrating them with the work of La Monte Young, Alvin Lucier, Christian Marclay, Marianne Amacher, Annie Lockwood, and many others. As a result, we have before us not only one of the most fundamental and insightful studies of the ontology of sound, but also a fascinating history of the little-studied sound art of the last fifty years.
In accomplishing this task, the author challenges the mainstream concepts of contemporary cultural theory based on discourse and language analysis and declares the need for a new materialist aesthetics not only of sound, but of art in general. Central to the book becomes the concept of the sound stream, an anonymous materialist force that precedes and transcends human subjective experience. In an attempt to construct a realist and naturalistic model for describing sound, Cox turns to the ideas of Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, and Manuel Delanda, illustrating them with the work of La Monte Young, Alvin Lucier, Christian Marclay, Marianne Amacher, Annie Lockwood, and many others. As a result, we have before us not only one of the most fundamental and insightful studies of the ontology of sound, but also a fascinating history of the little-studied sound art of the last fifty years.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Sound History