New PDF release: Music, Physics and Engineering

By Harry F. Olson

ISBN-10: 0486217698

ISBN-13: 9780486217697

This terribly accomplished textual content, requiring no certain historical past in physics, math or tune, discusses the character of sound waves, musical tools, musical notation, acoustic fabrics, components of sound replica systems—from the phone to stereo sound systems—and digital song. ''Very thorough, and whole of well-presented facts.''—Musical occasions. 376 figures.

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3. Edison’s Talking Doll. ”38 In these instances the phonograph in no way mimes the appearance of a human being, but its prerecorded speech mimes a human dialogue and subjectivity, as it addresses its audiences in a ¤ctive ¤rst person. It calls on auditors to imagine a human being, or perhaps to notice with wonder the lack of a human body. As playful as these instances are, they reveal a fundamental shift in human ontology, a shift that explains the sort of wondering acclamation the original phonograph received in spite of its impractical and uncommercial nature.

Instead, they indicate a fetish-like response in the face of a new threat of a loss of reality. This threat includes the project, as Crary demonstrates in his discussion of the growth of physiology and psychology during the nineteenth century, to take the human sensorium apart in order to examine and master each separate strand of the senses, for example, sight divorced from tactility, hearing divorced from sight. This dissolving of the human sensorium was exempli¤ed by Edison’s phonograph, which seemed to perfectly reproduce the human voice without a 28 Tom Gunning human body, separating aural simulation from visual, voice from physical embodiment.

How would the opera audience have perceived a phonograph recording of the waterfall? Would they have perceived it differently than a cinema audience would? According to Kittler, literacy was supposed to supplement optical and acoustical information, so that when writing became silent (and painless), reading had to become silent. Educated people understood sights and sounds through letters, and through face-to-face communication—presence and simultaneity became the only supplement to reading. 12 The monopoly of writing before modern media had, according to Kittler, made the words tremble with sensuality and memory: All the passion of reading consisted of hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines: the visible or audible world of romantic poetry.

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