Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and The Avant Garde, edited by Douglas Kahn and Gregory Whitehead, is a beautifully produced collection of essays on the interplay between art, noise, experimental music, and technology. Although some of the essays are fussy and impenetrable, this is, overall, an enlightening exploration of a little-known area of art history. The most fascinating revelations concern the early days of phonography and radio and how avant-garde art movements (futurism, dadaism, surrealism) dreamed of creating new forms of human/machine art with the new technology. - Gareth Branwyn
Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and The Avant Garde, edited by Douglas Kahn and Gregory Whitehead, US$35, MIT Press: +1 (617) 253 2889.
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