Thursday, September 11, 2008

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Hello - my name is Kaitlin. I don't know very much about audio/radio language or equipment. The mid-week workshop was helpful. Does anybody know of any books that would be good for an introduction (other than the one we have for class)?
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Cambra said...

Hi Kaitlin!

Oh man, have I got a reading list for you!

A couple to get you started (all are highly, highly recommended for anyone interested in cultural analysis of sound, audio production, and radio art):

Jonathan Sterne, The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction--a very comprehensive (and interesting) history of sound technologies

Douglas Kahn and Gregory Whitehead (eds.), Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde

Douglas Kahn (again--these academic analyses of sound and radio can get pretty incestuous), Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts

Allen Weiss (who writes extensively on radio art specifically), Phantasmic Radio

Allen Weiss (ed.), Experimental Sound and Radio

Again, these are some heavy hitters whose names you'll likely see again as you (or, if you choose to) dive more deeply into this stuff.

Happy reading!

September 11, 2008 at 3:18 PM

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