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.

The MIT Press
November 2000
7 x 10, 194 pp., 59 illus.

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CONTENTS

-Radio Icons, Short Circuits, Deep Schisms
ALLEN S. WEISS
-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
REV. 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
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