"Wireless Imagination" (1992)








Cambridge, Massachusetts, US and London: The MIT Press (book, essays), 1992.
9" x 6" x 1", 452 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-0-262-61104-6.

Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde, an anthology of essays edited by Douglas Kahn and Gregory Whitehead, as published in hardcover and softcover [shown] by the MIT Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts, US) in 1992.

This contains Robin Lydenberg's "Sound Identity Fading Out: William Burroughs' Tape Experiments", pp. 409–437, which contains a number of quotes and excerpts from Burroughs.

Not in Shoaf.
Not in Schottlaender.

Contents: 

  • Preface
  • Douglas Kahn: "Introduction: Histories of Sound Once Removed"
  • Charles Grivel: "The Phonograph's Horned Mouth"
  • Villiers de l'Isle-Adam: "The Lamentations of Edison, from L'Eve Future (1886)"
  • Douglas Kahn: "Death in the Light of the Phonograph: Raymond Roussel's Locus Solus"
  • Craig Adcock: "Marcel Duchamp's Gap Music: Operations in the Space between Art and Noise"
  • Christopher Schiff: "Banging on the Windowpane: Sound in Early Surrealism"
  • Alberto Savinio: "Give Me the Anathema, Lascivious Thing (1915)"
  • Mel Gordon: "Songs from the Museum of the Future: Russian Sound Creation (1910–1930)"
  • Arseni Avraamov: "The Symphony of Sirens (1923)"
  • Gregory Whitehead: "Out of the Dark: Notes on the Nobodies of Radio Art"
  • F. T. Marinetti and Pino Masnata: "La Radia (1933)"
  • Allen S. Weiss: "Radio, Death, and the Devil: Artaud's Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu"
  • Antonin Artaud: "To Have Done with the Judgment of God (1947)"
  • Mark E. Cory: "Soundplay: The Polyphonous Tradition of German Radio Art"
  • Frances Dyson: "The Ear that Would Hear Sounds in Themselves: John Cage 1935–1965"
  • Robin Lydenberg: "Sound Identity Fading Out: William Burroughs' Tape Experiments"
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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