Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound ArtThe rise of a prominent auditory culture, reveals the degree to which sound art is lending definition to the 21st Century. And yet sound art still lacks related literature to compliment, and expand, the realm of practice. Background Noise sets out an historical overview, while at the same time shaping that history according to what sound art reveals - the dynamics of art to operate spatially, through media of reproduction and broadcast, and in relation to the intensities of communication and its contextual framework |
Contents
John Cage and Musical Concepts | 7 |
Chapter 2 | 24 |
Chapter 3 | 35 |
Box with the Sound of Its Own Making From | 49 |
37 | 65 |
Michael Asher and the Subject of Space | 87 |
I Am Sitting in a Room Vocal Intensities | 101 |
Vito Acconci and the Power | 108 |
Michael Brewster | 167 |
Iannis Xenakiss | 183 |
Soundmarks Environments and Aural Geography | 197 |
Yasunao Tone and the Mechanics | 218 |
Global Strings Interpersonal and Network Space | 245 |
Atau Tanaka and Network as Instrument | 267 |
Apo33 and Multiplying Place | 280 |
Fade Out | 293 |
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Common terms and phrases
acoustic ecology active aesthetic aims amplified architecture art object articulation artist Asher audience audio auditory aural body broadcast Cage's Christof Migone composition Conceptual art context creating cultural developed dynamic electronic environment environmental event everyday experience experimental music Fluxus frequencies function gallery global hear Hildegard Westerkamp Iannis Xenakis Ibid individual inherent inside intensities interaction John Cage La Monte Young language Leitner listening Lucier Maryanne Amacher material Max Neuhaus meaning microphone Migone Morris Morris's move movement multiple musique concrète Neuhaus's noise Ongaku operates perception performance physical position potential practice presence Press production radio ramp recording relation Schaeffer sculpture Seedbed sense shift silence situation social sonic sonorous sound and space sound art sound installation sound object soundscape spatial speaking speech structure stutter tape tion Tone turn underscores viewer visual Vito Acconci voice Westerkamp Wollscheid Xenakis Yasunao Tone York
References to this book
The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music Nicholas Collins,Julio d' Escrivan Rincón Limited preview - 2007 |