"Previously published as a special issue of The drama review, vol. 40, no. 3, fall 1996"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-186) and index.
Radio icons, short circuits, deep schisms ; Erotic nostalgia and the inscription of desire / Allen S. Weiss -- Shards of voice : fragments excavated toward a radiophonic archaeology / Alexandra L.M. Keller -- Wired : Schreber as machine, technophobe, and virtualist / Mark S. Roberts -- HeadHole : malfunctions and dysfunctions of an FM exciter / Christof Migone -- Cat's cradle / Susan Stone -- From one head to another / René Farabet -- Radiophonic ontologies and the avantgarde / Joe Milutis -- Three receivers / Douglas Kahn -- Inaudible postscript : a silent coda on the disembodied voice and the subsequent unwriting of history / Dwight Frizzell and Jay Mandeville -- Radio play is no place : a conversation between Jérôme Noetinger and Gregory Whitehead / Gregory Whitehead -- Stein's Stein : a tale from The aphoristic theatre / Allen S. Weiss -- Aural sex : the female orgasm in popular sound / John Corbett and Terri Kapsalis -- Developing A blind understanding : a feminist revision of radio semiotics / Mary Louise Hill -- Interpolation and interpellation / Fred Moten -- Mendicant erotics [Sydney] : a performance for radio / Ellen Zweig -- Casual workers, hallucinations, and appropriate ghosts / Toni Dove -- Hotel radio : excerpt from the play by Richard Foreman -- Lingua franca / Lou Mallozzi -- Around Naxos : a radio "film" ... / Kaye Mortley -- Music to the "nth" degree / Brandon LaBelle -- More facts on the polywave / G.X. Jupitter-Larsen -- Voice tears : the CD / curated by Allen S. Weiss.
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Art making and criticism have focused mainly on the visual media. This book, which originally 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 there is no single entity that constitutes "radio," but rather a multitude of radios, the essays explore various aspects of its apparatus, practice, forms, and utopias. The approaches include historical, political, popular cultural, archeological, semiotic, and feminist. Topics include the formal properties of radiophony, the disembodiment of the radiophonic voice, aesthetic implications of psychopathology, gender differences in broadcast musical voices and in narrative radio, erotic fantasy, and radio as an electronic memento mori.
Experimental sound and radio
Experimental radio programs-- History and criticism.