Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde

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This work 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, Andre Breton, John Cage, Hugo Ball, Kurt Weill, and William Burroughs.

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"Think of this book as a radio station with some really good shows. Think of yourself as a radio." Joshua Clover, San Francisco Review of Books "Wireless Imagination is a beautifully produced collection of essays on the interplay between art, noise, experimental music, and technology... An enlightening exploration of a little-known area of art history." Gareth Branwyn, Wired

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Douglas Kahn is Professor at the National Institute for Experimental Arts at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Noise Water Meat- A History of Sound in the Arts (MIT Press) and Earth Sound Earth Signal- Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts and coeditor of Wireless Imagination- Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde (MIT Press). Gregory Whitehead is an audio artist who produces radio transmissions and events.