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Description of  Dissonant Waves: Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the 20th century (Goldsmiths Press / Sonics Series)

An investigation of the cultures and technologies of early radio and how a generation of cultural operatorswith Schoen at the centeraddressed 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 Nazismand Schoen and his milieux fell victim to it, found ways out of it, or hit against it with all their might. Read more