Sonic Flux
sound, art, and metaphysics
$97.14
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
2 November 2018
Summary
From Edison’s invention of the phonograph through contemporary field recording and sound installation, artists have become attracted to those domains against which music has always defined itself: noise, silence, and environmental sound. Christoph Cox argues that these developments in the sonic arts are not only aesthetically but also philosophically significant, revealing sound to be a continuous material flow to which human expressions contribute but which precedes and exceeds those express…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780226543178 |
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| ISBN-10: | 022654317X |
| Author: | Christoph Cox |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Imprint: | University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 2 November 2018 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 16mm x 2mm |
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Critics Review
“Sonic Flux has solidified Cox’s role as the definitive voice in the field of sound art. Sonic Flux presents us with sound art’s long overdue conceptualization within contemporary discourse. In this text we encounter sound studies like never before, that is, as a site of courageous creative artistic research founded upon rigorous material experimentation and theoretical exploration. Cox’s background in philosophy, critical theory, and art history are clearly evident in this book and are greatly appreciated.” – “Journal of Visual Culture”“Christoph Cox in Sonic Flux investigates the most materialistic and prosaic music: the underrated background music… . Following the school of Schaeffer, Russolo, Varese, and Cage, Cox stands up for urban soundscapes and their range of attractions, blurs, chains, dilations and fades.”– “Sonograma Magazine”
About The Author
Christoph Cox
Christoph Cox is professor of philosophy at Hampshire College and editor-at-large at Cabinet.
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