Experimental Sound and Radio

This book which originally appeared as a special issue of TDR/The Drama Review explores the myriad aesthetic cultural and experimental possibilities of radiophony and sound art.Art making and criticism have focused mainly on the visual media. This book which originally appeared as a special issue of TDR/The Drama Review explores the myriad aesthetic cultural and experimental possibilities of radiophony and sound art. Taking the approach that there is no single entity that constitutes radio but rather a multitude of radios the essays explore various aspects of its apparatus practice forms and utopias. The approaches include historical political popular cultural archeological semiotic and feminist. Topics include the formal properties of radiophony the disembodiment of the radiophonic voice aesthetic implications of psychopathology gender differences in broadcast musical voices and in narrative radio erotic fantasy and radio as an electronic memento mori. The book includes a new piece by Allen Weiss on the origins of sound recording.ContributorsJohn Corbett Tony Dove Ren Farabet Richard Foreman Rev. Dwight Frizzell Mary Louise Hill G. X. Jupitter-Larsen Douglas Kahn Terri Kapsalis Alexandra L. M. Keller Lou Mallozzi Jay Mandeville Christof Migone Joe Milutis Kaye Mortley Mark S. Roberts Susan Stone Allen S. Weiss Gregory Whitehead David Williams Ellen Zweig