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Hello
Intro
1. What is Sound Art?
2. What is Sound?
3. Sound Art examples
4. Is it Sound Art?
5. Acoustic Ecology
6. Concepts and Themes
7. Questions
What is Sound Art?
Varese,
Cage and
Musique
Concrète
Labelle
Wishart
Neuhaus
“Sound art as a practice harnesses, describes,
analyses, performs, and interrogates the
condition of sound and the processes by which
it operates.” - Brandon LaBelle, 2006 Background Noise
“Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly
noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When
we listen to it, we find it fascinating.”
- John Cage, 1961
“When faced with musical conservatism at the
beginning of the last century, the composer Edgard
Varese responded by proposing to broaden the
definition of music to include all organized sound. John
Cage went further and included silence. Now even in
the aftermath of the timid 'forever Mozart decades' in
music, our response surely cannot be to put our heads
in the sand and call what is essentially new music
something else – 'Sound Art'.”
- Max Neuhaus, 2000
“'Sound Art' seems to be a category which can
include anything which has or makes sound and
even, in some cases, things which don't.”
- Max Neuhaus, 2000
“...Sonic Art includes music and electro-acoustic
music... it will cross over into areas which have
been categorised distinctly as Text-Sound and as
'sound effects'...focus will be upon the structure
and structuring of sounds themselves...
encompass the arts of organising sound events
in time.” - Trevor Wishart, 1985 On Sonic Art
What is Sound?
Wave
Acoustic Water Dance
More Water Sound...
Fluid
Communicates
Emanates
Vibrates
Propagates
agitates
mksound
german – lots of great sound art examples and fun to boot!
Paul De Marinis
Max Neuhaus
Sound for Concave Surfaces
Jon Pigott
The Sonic Marble Run
Sound Art
umbrella speaker
eude.nl
Edo Paulus – Sound artist
Kal Spelletich
The Cuddler
More Sound Art...
Robin Minard
many speakers
Steve Heimbecker
Yasunao Tone
speaker chair dude – LaBelle
Laurens van der Wee
No Sine Cure
Found Instruments
Robert Minden Ensemble
Is it Sound Art?
Golan Levin
John Cage
Hydraulophone
Norman McLaren
Sound Toys
Bruce Cannon
Telephone
Hildegard Westerkamp
Kitz Beach Soundwalk
Acoustic Ecology
World Soundscape Project
R. Murray Schafer
World Forum for Acoustic Ecology
Cage – Acoustic Ecology – Musique Concrète –
electroacoustics – noise – physical
the world of everyday sounds become material for artists
Duchamps
abstraction
Picasso
conceptualism
themes
physical
transplanting
“Ubersound”
filtering
space
mapping
transformation
recording
space quote
“We are all familiar with the visual effect of painting
the walls of a space with a dark colour. Here the
space seems to close inward ... I would draw a
parallel in working with sound. Experience has
shown that different types of sounds, when
broadcast homogeneously within a space, may
cause that space to appear open and voluminous
or close and intimate.” -- Robin Minard, 2008
Questions?
sound art experiences to share?
thoughts?
Who is me?
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