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At stake is not just aesthetics or history, but a new idea of planetary nature: Earth perceived through global and local waves, radiations, and energy flows that humans cannnot see but that become audible through media from rocks and winds to electronic circuitry. At a time when older notions of nature no longer grasp the new global technonatures and biocultures of the twenty-first century, Kahn's brilliantly insightful manifesto of 'Aelectrosonics' makes nature resonate anew in an entirely different key and at a different scale: It shows how Earth sings and the atmosphere makes music. This planetary techno-music is a must-hear for anyone interested in experimental aesthetics, environmentalism, or globalization.\" --Ursula K. Heise, author of \u003ci\u003eSense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"It is rare that the history of the arts and techno-sciences are so successfully blended as in Douglas Kahn's magisterial survey of how the perception of natural electromagnetic phenomena entered the scientific, artistic and popular imagination. Kahn documents the inquiries of Thomas Watson, Thoreau, scientists and amateurs in the 19th and 20th centuries and moves on to Alvin Lucier, John Cage and contemporary composers and scientific inquiry. This is a fundamental text for all collaborations between the arts and sciences today.\" --Roger Malina, Professor of Art and Technology and Professor Of Physics, University of Texas at Dallas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A fascinating tour through previously untold episodes in media arts history. From its theoretical moves to 'think energy' and attend to its lively presence in communications and the arts, to its fresh historical detail on experimental works by artists such as Alvin Lucier and Pauline Oliveros, \u003ci\u003eEarth Sound Earth Signal\u003c\/i\u003e should appeal broadly to scholars, artists, and enthusiasts of media and sound.\" --Tara Rodgers, composer and author of \u003ci\u003ePink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEarth Sound Earth Signal\u003c\/i\u003e is a mind-expanding, ear-opening book, at once a history of electromagnetism in the arts and a provocation to rethink the relationship between media and nature. With erudition and wit, Kahn tells the stories of artists, scientists, and engineers who have made audible the way our planet buzzes, crackles, hums, and whistles, from the ionosphere to the deepest depths of the oceans. 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It will haunt you--in a good way--long after you read it. --David Suisman, author of \u003ci\u003eSelling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Douglas Kahn's \u003ci\u003eEarth Sound Earth Signal\u003c\/i\u003e delivers a dazzlingly innovative study of how avant-garde music and art have made the planet itself audible over the last 200 years: the soil, the air, the atmosphere, electromagnetic radiation, and wireless communications become objects of playful scientific inquiry and aesthetic enjoyment in works from Henry David Thoreau to Alvin Lucier, John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, Robert Barry, and Joyce Hinterding. \u003ci\u003eEarth Sound Earth Signal \u003c\/i\u003eunfolds new histories of communication, of technology, of science, and of experimental aesthetics in a unique fusion of sharp-eyed scholarship with manifesto-style punch lines. 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Focusing on one place and time--New York City, 1964--Piekut examines five disparate events: the New York Philharmonic's disastrous performance of John Cage's \u003ci\u003eAtlas Eclipticalis\u003c\/i\u003e; Henry Flynt's demonstrations against the downtown avant-garde; Charlotte Moorman's Avant Garde Festival; the founding of the Jazz Composers Guild; and the emergence of Iggy Pop. Drawing together a colorful array of personalities, Piekut argues that each of these examples points to a failure and marks a limit or boundary of canonical experimentalism. What emerges from these marginal moments is an accurate picture of the avant-garde, not as a style or genre, but as a network defined by disagreements, struggles, and exclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Piekut takes scholarship on late twentieth century music to new heights with this inventive and compelling study of the networks of experimental music. 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Engaging, insightful, and important, \u003ci\u003eExperimentalism Otherwise\u003c\/i\u003e is certain to prove an indispensable reference not only for musicologists, but for anyone interested in the tangled cultural history of the period at large.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Branden W. 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