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The past century has witnessed the emergence of expressive musical forms that originate in appropriated technologies and practices. In most cases, this appropriation is performed without protest— but not always. Carefully negotiating a space for sound as an objective, scientific medium, the field of sonification has cautiously guarded the term from subjective and affective endeavors. This paper...

Naturalistic and anti-humanist accounts of early Lǎo-Zhuāng (老莊) Daoism and of the uncanny or terrifying sublime suggest that the everyday life and conventional personality of the individual is interrupted and displaced by overwhelming impersonal powers that reveal the “human” to be a false construction and the world an aesthetic, natural, or mystical play of forces. This is often portrayed as ...

Central to art was once its relationship the imaginative interior of artist. The legacy romanticism and sublime has been systematically eroded throughout 20th 21st centuries. ...