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Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day. Douglas Kahn begins by evoking the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing along telegraph lines and the Aelectrosonic sounds of natural radio that Thomas Watson heard through the first telephone; he then traces the histories of science, media, music, and the arts to the 1960's and beyond. Earth Sound Earth Signal rethinks energy at a global scale, from brainwaves to outer space, through detailed discussions of musicians, artists and scientists such as Alvin Lucier, Edmond Dewan, Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, James Turrell, Robert Barry, Joyce Hinterding, and many others. Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day. Grounded in the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing in telegraph lines and in the Aelectrosonic sounds of natural radio that Thomas Watson heard in telephone lines, the book moves through the histories of science, media, music, and the arts to the 1960s, when the composer Alvin Lucier worked with the ""natural electromagnetic sounds"" present from ""brainwaves to outer.

Sound in art. --- Radio noise. --- 7.01 --- Geluid ; geluiden ; klanken ; in de kunst --- Sound studies --- Sound Art --- Radiogeluiden ; radioruis ; radiosignalen --- Energetische aardstralen ; in de kunst --- Noise, Radio --- Electronic noise --- Radio astronomy --- Radio meteorology --- Kunst ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Sound in art --- Radio noise --- Art --- Music --- music [performing arts] --- sound [acoustics] --- performance art --- electronic music --- sound art --- Sound in art.. --- 1960s. --- 19th century. --- aelectrosonic sounds. --- aeolian sphere music. --- aesthetics. --- artists. --- arts. --- brainwaves. --- early sound technologies. --- earth magnitude. --- energies. --- global perspective. --- global transmissions. --- henry david thoreau. --- humanities. --- media studies. --- modern communications. --- modern world. --- music history. --- musicians. --- natural radio. --- nonfiction. --- outer space. --- science historians. --- science history. --- scientists. --- sound energy. --- telegraph lines. --- telephone. --- thomas watson. --- 781.1 --- Geluidskunst --- music [performing arts genre]