{"product_id":"experimenting-the-human-by-g-douglas-barrett-9780226823409","title":"Experimenting the Human","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn engaging consideration of what experimental music can tell us about being human.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eExperimenting the Human\u003c\/em\u003e, G Douglas Barrett argues that experimental music speaks to the contemporary posthuman, a condition in which science and technology have challenged the centrality of the human amid the uneven temporality of postwar capitalism. Experimental music addresses this condition, Barrett contends, not by adhering to the formal strictures of musical modernism but by producing extra-formal meaning through its immanent transdisciplinary involvements with postwar science, technology, and art movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHear Alvin Lucier use his brain waves to play percussion. Picture Pamela Z sculpting the sound of her voice using her wearable BodySynth system. Imagine Pauline Oliveros reflecting her voice off of the moon using radio signals. What these musical artworks have in common is an engagement with the notion that the human has been increasingly challenged through cultural, biological, medical, economic, and technoscientific means.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book brings together music studies, art history, and media studies to provide new perspectives on cybernetics, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, robotics, and radio astronomy. Through a unique meeting of experimental music, posthumanism, and contemporary art, \u003cem\u003eExperimenting the Human\u003c\/em\u003e provides fresh insights into the perennial question of what it means to be human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430670254316,"sku":"9780226823409","price":52.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780226823409.jpg?v=1774558780","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/experimenting-the-human-by-g-douglas-barrett-9780226823409","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}