Description: "The first overview of resonance/vibration - covering the field thematically, and written by one of the leading figures in sound studies and sound art"--
Brief description: Lutz Koepnick is the Max Kade Foundation Chair in German Studies and Professor of Cinema and Media Arts at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, USA). Koepnick has published widely on film, media art, new media aesthetic, sound art, and intellectual history from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. He is the author of The Long Take: Art Cinema and the Wondrous (2017), Michael Bay: World Cinema in the Age of Populism (2017), On Slowness: Toward an Aesthetic of the Contemporary (2014); Framing Attention: Windows on Modern German Culture (2007); and The Dark Mirror: German Cinema between Hitler and Hollywood(2002). Koepnick is the co-author of Windows Interface (2007), and co-editor of various anthologies on sound culture, new media aesthetics, aesthetic theory, German cinema, and questions of exile.
Review Quotes:
"Koepnick's profoundly insightful and engagingly written volume can serve as a kind of advanced introduction to sound art while offering a generously broad host of new ideas to the specialist. Last but not least, the volume also proposes a new type of 'resonant criticism.'" --Monatshefte
"Koepnick wrote one of the best introductions to sound art I could think of: by exploring one single artwork he guides us into the corpus of contemporary discourses and aesthetic strategies in sound art-returning, again and again, to the one major unresolved matter of sound art theory that many researchers are still struggling with: how is it possible that a sound artwork succeeds not only in touching the lives of its audiences but in moving its listeners to unexpected tears? Koepnick's book brings us a crucial step closer in understanding why." --Holger Schulze, Professor in Musicology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and author of The Sonic Persona "The open, explorative premise of Resonant Matter itself resonates through our turbulent times, suggesting sound to assist us in our struggle to dynamically attune to an "inhospitable" environment. Koepnick listens closely to a single artwork, then amplifies an extended contextual framework that responds with the ear and agency of a great and skilled improvisation." --Camille Norment, multi-media artist, musician, composer "Koepnick has written an excellent book that explores the rarely addressed topic of resonance in contemporary sound art. He offers many new insights and captures the complexity and politics of sound art for a wide range of scholars and students of art, art history, music, aesthetics, performance, and theatre studies. As he has done in many of his previous publications, Koepnick once again helps us to think more clearly about the collaborative dimensions and the materiality of art today." --Lilian Haberer, Materiality in Art History, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany