Experimental Sound and Radio

by Weiss, Allen S.

• ISBN13: 9780262731300
• ISBN10: 0262731304
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-27
• Publisher: The MIT Press

Summary

Art making and criticism have focused mainly on the visual media. This book, which originally appeared as a special issue of TDR/The Drama Review, explores the myriad aesthetic, cultural, and experimental possibilities of radiophony and sound art. Taking the approach that there is no single entity that constitutes "radio," but rather a multitude of radios, the essays explore various aspects of its apparatus, practice, forms, and utopias. The approaches include historical, political, popular cultural, archeological, semiotic, and feminist. Topics include the formal properties of radiophony, the disembodiment of the radiophonic voice, aesthetic implications of psychopathology, gender differences in broadcast musical voices and in narrative radio, erotic fantasy, and radio as an electronic memento mori. The book includes a new piece by Allen Weiss on the origins of sound recording. Contributors: John Corbett, Tony Dove, Rene Farabet, Richard Foreman, Rev. Dwight Frizzell, Mary Louise Hill, G. X. Jupitter-Larsen, Douglas Kahn, Terri Kapsalis, Alexandra L. M. Keller, Lou Mallozzi, Jay Mandeville, Christof Migone, Joe Milutis, Kaye Mortley, Mark S. Roberts, Susan Stone, Allen S. Weiss, Gregory Whitehead, David Williams, Ellen Zweig.

Table of Contents

Radio Icons, Short Circuits, Deep Schisms	1	(7)
Allen S. Weiss
Erotic Nostalgia and the Inscription of Desire	8	(14)
Allen S. Weiss
Shards of Voice: Fragments Excavated toward a Radiophonic Archaeology	22	(5)
Alexandra L.M. Keller
Wired: Schreber As Machine, Technophobe, and Virtualist	27	(15)
Mark S. Roberts
HeadHole: Malfunctions and Dysfunctions of an FM Exciter	42	(11)
Christof Migone
Cat's Cradle	53	(2)
Susan Stone
From One Head to Another	55	(2)
Rene Farabet
Radiophonic Ontologies and the Avantgarde	57	(16)
Joe Milutis
Three Receivers	73	(8)
Douglas Kahn
Inaudible Postscript: A silent coda on the disembodied voice and the subsequent unwriting of history	81	(8)
Rev. Dwight Frizzell
Jay Mandeville
Radio Play Is No Place: A Conversation between Jerome Noetinger and Gregory Whitehead	89	(6)
Gregory Whitehead
Stein's Stein: a tale from The Aphoristic Theatre	95	(2)
Allen S. Weiss
Aural Sex: The Female Orgasm in Popular Sound	97	(10)
John Corbett
Terri Kapsalis
Developing A Blind Understanding: A Feminist Revision of Radio Semiotics	107	(9)
Mary Louise Hill
Interpolation and Interpellation	116	(9)
Fred Moten
Mendicant Erotics [Sydney]: a performance for radio	125	(10)
Ellen Zweig
Casual Workers, Hallucinations, and Appropriate Ghosts	135	(5)
Toni Dove
Hotel Radio excerpt from the play	140	(4)
Richard Foreman
Lingua Franca	144	(7)
Lou Mallozzi
Around Naxos: a radio ``film''...	151	(16)
Kaye Mortley
Music to the ``nth'' Degree	167	(8)
Brandon LaBelle
More Facts on the Polywave	175	(2)
G.X. Jupitter-Larsen
Voice Tears: The CD curated	177	(5)
Allen S. Weiss
Biographies	182	(5)
Index	187