Experimental Sound & Radio

Art making and criticism have focused mainly on the visual media. This book, whichoriginally 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 thereis no single entity that constitutes "radio," but rather a multitude of radios, the essays explorevarious aspects of its apparatus, practice, forms, and utopias. The approaches include historical,political, popular cultural, archeological, semiotic, and feminist. Topics include the formalproperties of radiophony, the disembodiment of the radiophonic voice, aesthetic implications ofpsychopathology, gender differences in broadcast musical voices and in narrative radio, eroticfantasy, and radio as an electronic memento mori.The book includes a new piece by Allen Weiss on theorigins of sound recording.Contributors John Corbett, Tony Dove, Rene 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.