Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, And The Avant-Garde (1992) Front Cover Book Details Author Douglas Kahn Whitehead, Gregory Subject Sound in art; Arts, Modern; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - History Publication Date 11/17/1992 Format Hardcover (229 x 152 mm) Publisher The MIT Press Language eng Plot Wireless Imagination addresses perhaps the most conspicuous silence in contemporary theory and art criticism, the silence that surrounds the polyphonous histories of audio art. Composed of both original essays and several newly translated documents, this book provides a close audition to some of the most telling and soundful moments in the "deaf century," conceived and performed by such artists as Raymond Roussel, Antonin Artaud, Marcel Duchamp, André Breton, John Cage, Hugo Ball, Kurt Weill, and William Burroughs. From the late nineteenth century to the 1960s, the essays uncover the fantastic acoustic scenarios projected through the writings of Raymond Roussel; the aural objects of Marcel Duchamp; Dziga Vertov's proposal for a phonographic "laboratory of hearing"; the ZAUM language and Radio Sorcery conjured by Velimir Khlebnikov; the iconoclastic castaways of F. T. Marinetti's La Radia; the destroyed musics of the Surrealists; the noise bands of Russolo, Foregger, Varèse, and Cage; the contorted radio talk show delivered by Antonin Artaud; the labyrinthine inner journeys invoked by German Hörspiel; and the razor contamination and cut-up ventriloquism of William S. Burroughs. Douglas Kahn is Associate Professor of Media Arts at Arizona State University. Gregory Whitehead is an audio artist who produces radio transmissions and events. Personal Details Index 34 Keep Yes Links Amazon US Product Details LoC Classification NX650.S68W57 1992 Dewey 700/.9/04 ISBN 0262111683 Cover Price $45.00 Nr of Pages 466 First Edition No Rare No