What is Sound Art An Introduction To a

What is Sound Art? An Introduction To a Blurry Art Form C. Reider, 2012

Wikipedia definition: Sound art is a diverse group of art practices that considers wide notions of sound, listening and hearing as its predominant focus. There are often distinct relationships forged between the visual and aural domains of art and perception by sound artists. Like many genres of contemporary art, sound art is interdisciplinary in nature, or takes on hybrid forms. Sound art often engages with the subjects of acoustics, psychoacoustics, electronics, noise music, audio media and technology (both analog and digital), found or environmental sound, explorations of the human body, sculpture, film or video and an ever-expanding set of subjects that are part of the current discourse of contemporary art.

My Definition A diverse set of interdisciplinary art practices which use sound as a conveyor of meaning.

Different Forms of Sound Art Sound sculpture / kinetic sculpture Automatons Video art Radio art Installations (often site-specific) Sound-walks Instrument Making Graphic Scores Acoustic Ecology / Phonography etc.

Seth Kim-Cohen's Expanded Sonic Field From “In the Blink of an Ear” 2009 Continuum Books

Luigi Russolo Dynamism of a Train, 1912 1883 -1947 Italian Futurist Painter / Composer

“L'arte dei Rumori” (The Art of Noises), 1913 Six “families of noise”: Roars, Thunderings, Explosions, Hissing roars, Bangs, Booms Whistling, Hissing, Puffing Whispers, Murmurs, Mumbling, Muttering, Gurgling Screeching, Creaking, Rustling, Buzzing, Crackling, Scraping Noises obtained by beating on metals, woods, skins, stones, pottery, etc. Voices of animals and people, Shouts, Screams, Shrieks, Wails, Hoots, Howls, Death rattles, Sobs

Luigi Russolo's Intonarumori. Photo: 1919

Progenitors of Sound Art Marcel Duchamp – 1887 -1968 Antonin Artaud 1896 -1948 Pierre Schaeffer - 19101995 Kurt Schwitters 1887 -1948 John Cage - 1912 -1992

Sound Sculpture Robert Morris Box With the Sound of Its Own Making – 1961 (The box plays back a 3 hour long tape recording of the construction process of this simple wooden box)

Sound Sculpture Harry Bertoia

Sound Sculpture Harry Bertoia Untitled Sound Sculptures – 1950 -1978

Sound Sculpture Laurie Anderson Handphone Table - 1978

Sound Sculpture (Art about sound) Christian Marclay Footsteps - 1989 The Beatles - 1989 Recycled Records - 1980 Lip Lock - 2000 Virtuoso - 2000

Sound Sculpture / Kinetic Sculpture Jean Tinguely

Sound Sculpture / Kinetic Sculpture Jean Tinguely Méta-Harmonie II - 1979

Kinetic Sculpture / Musical Automatons Maxime de la Rochefoucauld a. k. a. Maxime Rioux

Kinetic Sculpture / Musical Automatons Maxime de la Rochefoucauld Trois Courtes Pieces - 2000

Sound Sculpture / Instrument Making Trimpin

Sound Sculpture / Instrument Making Trimpin Fire Organ

Sound Sculpture / Instrument Making David Byrne Playing the Building

Sound Sculpture / Instrument Making / Installation David Byrne Playing the Building

Instrument Making Harry Partch Gourd Tree & Cone Gongs 1964 Cloud Chamber Bowls 1950 -51 Quadrangularis Reversum - 1965

Installation Ryoji Ikeda

Installation Ryoji Ikeda The Transfinite - 2011

Installation Zimoun

Installation Zimoun 186 Prepared DC-Motors, Cardboard Boxes 60 x 60 cm - 2010

Installation Felix Gonzalez-Torres Untitled (Golden) - 1995

Installation Felix Gonzalez-Torres Untitled (Golden) - 1995

Installation Alvin Lucier I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves so that any semblance of my speech, with perhaps the exception of rhythm, is destroyed. What you will hear, then, are the natural resonant frequencies of the room articulated by speech. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to smooth out any irregularities my speech might have. I am Sitting In a Room - 1969

Site-specific Installation Susan Phillipsz

Site-specific Installation Susan Phillipsz Lowlands - 2010

Site-specific Installation Doug Hollis Sound Garden – Seattle, 1983

Site-specific Installation Doug Hollis Sound Garden – Seattle, 1983

Video Art Steina Vasulka

Video Art Steina Vasulka Voice Windows – 1986 (with Joan La Barbara)

Video Art / Interactive Instrument Hybrid Andy Huntington Sound Fountain - 2011

Video Art / Interactive Instrument Hybrid Andy Huntington Sound Fountain - 2011

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