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Early Modern Books and Phonography

2023
Abstract To varying degrees all early modern books can be regarded as forms of phonography, of ‘sound-writing’. Phonography has two aspects: (1) encoding sounds and (2) cues for decoding sounds. The engagement of different kinds of books with sound can be plotted along a continuum.
Bruce R Smith
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The Colossus of Memnon and Phonography

Sound Studies, 2016
The Colossus of Memnon has been one of the most scrutinised sounding statues in the Western world. A lynchpin of Imperial Roman tourism to Egypt, it was silenced by renovations around 200 CE. Since then, speculation on its sound has drawn upon a fervent mix of ancient metaphysics and modern thought in aesthetics and the sciences.
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