Phantasmic Radio

135 Pages·1995·7.131 MB·English

by  Allen S. Weiss

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For
Lawrence Schehr, in reality;
and
Simon Carr, in surreality;
and
Toni Dove, in hyperreality.

CON TEN T S
Acknowledgments viii
Preface: Radio Phantasms,
Phantasmic Radio
I. From Schizophrenia to
Schiwphonica:Antonin
Artaud's To Have Done
with the Judgment of God 9
2. The Radio as Musical
Instrument: John Cage's
Imaginary Landscapes 35
3. Mouths of Disquietude,
Language in Mutation:
Valere Novarina's Theater
of the Ears 57
+. Lost Tongues and Dis-
articulated Voices: Gregory
Whitehead's Pressures of
the Unspeakable 75
Postface: Radio Solipsism 93
Notes 103
Select Bibliography IIS
Select Discography II9
Index 121
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
An earlier version of the Preface
appeared as "Broken Voices, Lost
Bodies: Experimental Radio
phony:' in Allen S. Weiss, Perperse
Desire and theAmbiguous Icon (Al
bany: SUNY Press, 1994-).
Chapter 1 appeared in a different
form, under the title "Radio,
Death, and the Devil," in Douglas
Kahn and Gregory Whitehead,
eds., Wireless Imagination: Sound,
Radio, and theAvant-Garde (Cam
bridge; MIT Press, 1992).
Part of Chapter 2 was published
as a review oOohn and Susan
Harvith, eds., Edison, Musicians,
and the Phonograph: A Century
in Retrospect (Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood Press, 1987), in Sub
Stance, no. 68 (1992).
Chapter 3 is a revised version of
"Mouths of Disquietude: Valere
Novarina Between the Theatre of
Cruelty and Ecrits Bruts:' in The
DramaReview, no. 138 (1993).
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sometimes
there rises that
which they think in
their ignorance is a con
fused babble of aspiring voices
not knowing what ancient
harmonies these are
to which they are
so faultily lis-
tening.