Earth sound earth signal [electronic resource] : energies and earth magnitude in the arts / Douglas Kahn.

"Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thomas Watson : natural radio, natural theology -- Microphonic imagination -- The aeolian and Henry David Thoreau's sphere music -- The aelectrosonic and energetic environments -- Inductive radio and whistling currents -- Alvin Lucier : brainwaves -- Edmond Dewan and cybernetic hi-fi -- Alvin Lucier : whistlers -- From brainwaves to outer space : John Cage and Karl Jansky -- For more new signals -- Sound of the underground : earthquakes, nuclear weaponry, and music -- Long sounds and transperception -- Pauline Oliveros : sonosphere -- Thomas Ashcraft : electroreceptor -- Black sun, black rain -- Star-studded cinema -- Robert Barry : conceptualism and energy -- Collaborating objects radiating environments -- Joyce Hinterding : drawing energy -- Earth-in-circuit.