Sonic Time Machines

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Sonic Time Machines is written by Wolfgang Ernst and published by Taylor & Francis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 104079260X (ISBN 10) and 9781040792605 (ISBN 13).

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.