In the Blink of an Ear Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art

by Kim-Cohen, Seth

• ISBN13: 9780826429704
• ISBN10: 082642970X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-07-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Polemical, revisionist, prescriptive: In The Blink of an Ear rereads the short history of sound art through the prism of developments in the visual arts, poststructuralism, deconstruction, and continental philosophy. Rejecting the tendency toward sound-in-itself in favor of sound's expanded situation, In The Blink of an Ear rethinks the history of postwar sonic practice, animating the conceptual implications of works by Pierre Schaeffer, John Cage, and Luc Ferrari, while proposing examples of contemporary sound practice that parallel Marcel Duchamp's notion of a non-retinal visual art. Embracing the inevitable interaction of sound with the social, the linguistic, the philosophical, the political, and the technological, In The Blink of an Ear announces a turning point in the theorization of the sonic arts. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Seth Kim-Cohen works at the nexus of conceptualism and sound. His work has been presented at venues spanning the cultural spectrum from CBGB to Tate Modern. He is Director and Assistant Professor of Art and Theory at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts. This is his second book. Seth Kim-Cohen is Lecturer at the Yale University School of Art and Department of the History of Art and is also a practicing artist, often working with sound or with the idea of sound.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. xv
In One Ear, Out the Other	p. 1
Be More Specific	p. 31
The Perception of Primacy	p. 61
Ohrenblick	p. 89
Sound-in-Itself	p. 121
Unhearing Cage	p. 149
Sound-out-of-Itself	p. 175
A Dot on a Line	p. 211
Conclusion: Lend an Ear	p. 257
Index	p. 263
Introduction
Noise and Its Opposite
Sectarianism in the Sensorium
Settling the Score
The Technological Ontological
Rock and Roll Aesthetics
The Blink of an Ear
Postscript: A Tentative Definition of Sound Art
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