The Aelectrosonic, Kontraste Cahier #1

Download or read book The Aelectrosonic, Kontraste Cahier #1 written by Douglas Kahn and published by Sonic Acts Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘What is the nature of electronic music?’, asks Douglas Kahn, Professor at the National Institute for Experimental Arts at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, in his essay for The Aelectrosonic. He locates his answer in the ‘corresponding nature for electronic music found in the physical nature of electricity and electromagnetism’, what he calls, ‘The Aeloctrosonic’. Found, as he writes, ‘Apart from the crack of lightning and its echo in thunder’, but also ‘in atmospheric electricity and the sound of the auroras’. This is the starting point for The Aelectrosonic, the first Kontraste Cahier. The small publication contains the titular essay that locates the roots of electronic music in the 19th century when Thomas Watson listened in to the sounds of the telephone wires by Douglas Kahn and an introductory text by Arie Altena.