Travelling Time

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Editor: Arie Altena
Copy editors: Arie Altena, Mark Poysden
Design: Femke Herregraven
304 pp., 17 x 24 cm, February 2012
ISBN: 9789081047043

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CONTRIBUTORS
Arie Altena, George Dyson, Thomas W. Patteson, Siegfried Zielinski, David Edgerton, Joel Ryan, Mark Fell, Pauline Oliveros, Catherine Christer Hennix, Robin Hayward, Hilary Jeffery, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Gilles Aubry, Hilel Schwartz, Enda Duffy, Timothy Druckrey, Omar Muñoz-Cremers, Alfred Jarry

DESCRIPTION
Critical essays and interviews in this volume reveal the significance and intricacies of time and particularly how we experience it. Time is a complex and ambiguous concept. Relativity theorists and quantum mechanics have tinkered with the seemingly unambiguous concept of time since the beginning of the previous century. Art, film and music make abstract notions of time tangible and comprehensible, and manipulate how we experience it. The ongoing development and implementation of technology constantly challenge, change and undermine our perception of time. This book is, in a sense, a homage to the human experience of time. One half of this anthology consists of articles and essays dealing with conceptions and imaginings of time in the fields of technology, culture, and literature. The other half collects interviews with composers and performing musicians, concerning their intimate knowledge of working with time.

CONTENTS

  • SONIC ACTS XIV
  • INTRODUCTION: AN ODE TO THE EXPERIENCE OF TIME
  • READING THROUGH AGAINST THE DAY
  • IMAGES OF TIME
  • POINT SOURCE SOLUTION (EXCERPT FROM TURING’S CATHEDRAL)
    George Dyson
  • THE TIME OF ROLAND KAYN’S CYBERNETIC MUSIC
    Thomas W. Patteson
  • AFFECTIVE AND EFFECTIVE CULTURAL TECHNOLOGIES BEFORE THE MEDIA: A MINIMAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOUND APPARATUSES AND AUTOMATA
    Siegfried Zielinski
  • INNOVATION, TECHNOLOGY, OR HISTORY: WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY ABOUT?
    David Edgerton
  • JOEL RYAN: KNOWLEDGE OF MUSICAL TIME
    Interview by Arie Altena
  • MARK FELL: ‘I GENERALLY WORK WITH MILLISECONDS, NOT BEATS PER MINUTE’
    Interview by Arie Altena
  • PAULINE OLIVEROS: ‘THERE IS NO PHYSICS OF EXPERIENCE’
    Interview by Nick Cain
  • CATHERINE CHRISTER HENNIX: ‘SOUND MUST WORK AS MORE THAN JUST A SIGNIFIER’
    In conversation with Bill Dietz
  • ROBIN HAYWARD: PITCHES TREATED AS NOISE
    Interview by Arie Altena
  • HILARY JEFFERY: OPENING UP NEW SPACES, EXPLORING TIME
    Interview by Arie Altena
  • KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN: ‘YOU CAN MAKE EXTREMELY LOOSE MUSIC WITH COMPUTERS’
    Interview by Arie Altena
  • GILLES AUBRY: THE AMPLIFICATION OF THE SOUL THROUGH TECHNOLOGY
    Interview by Arie Altena
  • OUT OF TIME, & THE BUZZ
    Hilel Schwartz
  • ULYSSES BECOMES ELECTRA: ELECTRIC ENERGY IN JOYCE’S NOVEL
    Enda Duffy
    ARREST AND MOVEMENT
    Timothy Druckrey
  • TRAPPED IN TIME
    Omar Muñoz-Cremers
  • FUNCTION OF THE MACHINE (EXCERPT FROM HOW TO CONSTRUCT A TIME MACHINE)
    Alfred Jarry

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Weight 612 g
Dimensions 24 × 17 × 1.7 cm

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