Index

Content

Preface	7

Foreword: Wolfgang Ernst’s Media-archaeological soundings	9 
          Liam Cole Young

Part 1 Definitions of Sonicity and the Sonic Time Machine

1.  Introduction: On ‘sonicity’	21

2.  Beeing as ‘Stimmung’	35

3.  Sonic re-presencing	39

4.  The sonic computer	43

Part II Cultural Soundings and Their Engineering

5.  Resonance of siren songs: Experimenting cultural sonicity	49

6.  Textual sonicity: Technologizing oral poetry	71

Part III Techno-Sonicity and Its Beeing-ln-Time

7.  History or resonance?	85

8.  From sound signal to alphanumeric symbol	107

9.  Rescued from the archive: Archaeonautics of sound	113

10.  Sonic analytics	129

Notes   143

Works cited   165

Index   179