Index

Contents

List of Illustrations   vii
Acknowledgments   ix

    Introduction   1

1.  Thomas Watson: Natural Radio, Natural Theology  25
2.  Microphonic Imagination   34
3.  The Aeolian and Henry David Thoreau’s Sphere Music   41
4.  The Aelectrosonic and Energetic Environments   53
5.  Inductive Radio and Whistling Currents   69
6.  Alvin Lucier: Brainwaves   83
7.  Edmond Dewan and Cybernetic Hi-Fi   93
8.  Alvin Lucier: Whistlers   106
9.  From Brainwaves to Outer Space   115
10. For More New Signals   122
11. Sound of the Underground: Earthquakes, Nuclear Weaponry,
    and Music   133
12. Long Sounds and Transperception   162
13. Pauline Oliveros: Sonosphere   174
14. Thomas Ashcraft: Electroreceptor   187
15. Black Sun, Black Rain   193
16. Star-Studded Cinema   205
17. Robert Barry: Conceptualism and Energy   218
18. Collaborating Objects Radiating Environments   227
19. Joyce Hinterding: Drawing Energy   237
20. Earth-in-Circuit   255

    Notes   259
    Index   317