Main entry:

Dolbear, Sam. aut

Title & Author:

Dissonant Waves : Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the 20th century / Sam Dolbear; Esther Leslie.

Publication:

[S.l.]: MIT Press, 2023.

Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Series:

Goldsmiths Press / Sonics Series

Notes:
Electronic book.
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Introduction -- Short History of the Project -- Method and Structure -- Chapter Breakdown: Form and Content -- A Preliminary Note on Names -- Archives and Sources -- Part 1 1894-1933 -- 1 Assembling and Composing: YouthCircles, Poems -- Circles, Poems -- Music, Towers -- 2 Radio and Experiment: Weimar -- War, Interference -- On One Fate -- Towers, Montage, Form -- Entangled Lives -- Living Ears -- Radio Infancy -- Henri, Ernst, Anita -- Radio Roles -- New Love -- G
Radio Magic -- Magical Ether -- Ether Magic -- Gas vs Gas -- New Frankfurt, New Studio -- Headphones and Haircuts -- Movement -- Solve the Puzzle -- Publications, Adverts -- Jazz! -- Sonic Portraits -- Circus Towers -- Capturing the Street -- Interruption: Childhood and Radio -- Preface -- Programme I: 25 Minutes -- Programme II: 25 Minutes -- Programme III: 18 Minutes -- Alien Furniture -- Clown Time -- Melody Maker -- German Jazz -- Colleague Critique -- Precarities, Positions -- Radio Robots -- Hot Love for the Thing -- Studio Updates -- Animal Radio -- Radio Models -- Slogans
Archive Towers -- Broadcasting Trotsky -- Citizen Radionists -- Blind Films -- Radio With Pictures -- Dummy Heads (Still Life) -- Flaubert -- Hands -- Constricting Circles -- Dada Delay -- Peace Plays -- Stimme/Stutter -- Requiem for Berlin -- Airship -- Promise -- New Routes -- Composing Still -- Technical Furniture -- 1931 Listings (Snapshot) -- Speaking Back -- New Frankfurt, New Houses -- Slime Radio -- State and Feelings -- BBC Afar -- Time Running Out -- Past Songs, Coming War -- Lichtenberg -- Voices, Circles -- New Heads -- Solve The Iron Cross -- 3 Wires Cut and Crossed: 1933
1933: Roll Call -- Part 2 1933-1960 -- 4 Exile Life -- 1933-1945 -- Everyday Existence -- In the Land of the BBC -- Hostilities -- Weak Signals from New York -- Opera Groupings -- To Be British -- Radio in the Mirror -- To not be British -- Water and War -- Ends or Beginnings (Dream Worlds) -- Interruption: Sleep and Dream -- Poetic Portraits (Roll Call) -- 1945-1952 -- Battling Legacies, Fighting Adorno -- Proposals, Suburbia -- Popular Voices, Translation Practice -- Germany in Ruins, Return to Frankfurt -- Return to the Tower -- Sleep Interruption: Sonic Dreams -- Newspaper Clippings -- Spies
Interruption: Sleep History of the BBC -- Impossible Radio -- 5 Remigrant: Berlin -- Early 1950s -- Settling Back -- Dramatic Concerns -- Prospects for Socialism -- Roads Back, Roads Around -- Roll Call (Dream and Reality) -- Late 1950s -- German Dealing: Realities and Dreams -- Carousel of Jobs (Revisited) -- Poems Backwards and Forwards -- Correspondence Continued and Interrupted -- 1960: Death Notice -- Coda: 1960- -- 6 Afterlife Echoes -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgements

Summary:

An investigation of the cultures and technologies of early radio and how a generation of cultural operators--with Schoen at the center--addressed crisis and adversity. Dials, knobs, microphones, clocks; heads, hands, breath, voices. Ernst Schoen joined Frankfurt Radio in the 1920s as programmer and accelerated the potentials of this collision of bodies and technologies. As with others of his generation, Schoen experienced crisis after crisis, from the violence of war, the suicide of friends, economic collapse, and a brief episode of permitted experimentalism under the Weimar Republic for those who would foster aesthetic, technical, and political revolution. The counterreaction was Nazism--and Schoen and his milieux fell victim to it, found ways out of it, or hit against it with all their might. Dissonant Waves tracks the life of Ernst Schoen--poet, composer, radio programmer, theorist, and best friend of Walter Benjamin from childhood--as he moves between Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris, and London. It casts radio history and practice into concrete spaces, into networks of friends and institutions, into political exigencies and domestic plights, and into broader aesthetic discussions of the politicization of art and the aestheticization of politics. Through friendship and comradeship, a position in state-backed radio, imprisonment, exile, networking in a new country, re-emigration, ill-treatment, neglect, Schoen suffers the century and articulates its broken promises. An exploration of the ripples of radio waves, the circuits of experimentation and friendship, and the proposals that half-found a route into the world--and might yet spark political-technical experimentation.

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ISBN:

9781913380557
1913380556
1913380564
9781913380564

Subject:

Schoen, Ernst, 1894-1960
Radio broadcasting History.
Experimental radio programs Germany History 20th century.
Nationalism.
Radio Histoire.
Émissions expérimentales radiophoniques Allemagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Nationalisme.
nationalism.
20th Century.
Modern.
HISTORY.
History & Criticism.
Radio.
PERFORMING ARTS.
Europe.
Electronic music
Hearing
Refugees Legal status, laws, etc.
Sound

Form/genre:

Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Leslie, Esther.
Goldsmiths Press sonics series.