Background Noise, Second Edition: Perspectives on Sound Art

ISBN-13: 9781628923520 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 376 str.

Brandon LaBelle

Opis

Background Noise follows the development of sound as an artistic medium and illustrates how sound is put to use within modes of composition, installation, and performance. While chronological in its structure, Brandon LaBelle's book is informed by spatial thinking - weaving architecture, environments, and the specifics of location into the work of sound, with the aim of formulating an expansive history and understanding of sound art. At its center the book presupposes an intrinsic relation between sound and its location, galvanizing acoustics, sound phenomena, and the environmental with the tensions inherent in what LaBelle identifies as sound's relational dynamic. For the author, this is embedded within sound's tendency to become public expressed in its ability to travel distances, foster cultural expression, and define spaces while being radically flexible.This second expanded edition includes new chapter about the future of sound art, revisions to the text as well as a new preface by Brandon LaBelle. Intersecting material analysis with theoretical frameworks spanning art and architectural theory, performance studies, and media theory, Background Noise makes the case that sound art should be at the core of contemporary culture.

Recenzje

The rise of a prominent auditory culture, as seen in the recent plethora of art exhibitions on sound art, in conjunction with academic programs dedicated to "aural culture", sonic art, and auditory issues now emerging, 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. Written by The Wire's contributor Brandon Labelle, 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. The Wire 2010

Spis treści

AcknowledgementsPreface to the Second EditionIntroduction: Auditory RelationsFade InPart 1: 4'33": Sound and Points of OriginIntroduction to Part 1Chapter 1 Sociality of Sound: John Cage and Musical ConceptsChapter 2 Exposing the Sound Object:Musique Concrète's Sonic ResearchChapter 3 Automatic Music: Group Ongaku's Performative LaborsPart 2: Box with the Sound of Its Own Making: From Gags to Sculptural FormIntroduction to Part 2Chapter 4 Rhythms of Chaos: Happenings, Environments, and FluxusChapter 5 Minimalist Treatments: La Monte Young and Robert MorrisChapter 6 Conceptualizations:Michael Asher and the Subject of SpacePart 3: I Am Sitting in a Room: Vocal IntensitiesIntroduction to Part 3Chapter 7 Performing Desire/ Performing Fear: Vito Acconci and the Power Plays of VoiceChapter 8 Finding Oneself: Alvin Lucier and the Phenomenal VoiceChapter 9 Word of Mouth: Christof Migone's Little ManiasPart 4: Public Supply: Buildings, Constructions, and Locational ListeningIntroduction to Part 4Chapter 10 Tuning Space:Max Neuhaus and Site-Specific SoundChapter 11 Other Architectures:Michael Brewster, Maryanne Amacher, and Bernhard LeitnerChapter 12 Composing Intensities: Iannis Xenakis's Multimedia ArchitecturesPart 5: Soundmarks: Environments and Aural GeographyIntroduction to Part 5Chapter 13 Seeking Ursound: Hildegard Westerkamp, Steve Peters, and the SoundscapeChapter 14 Language Games: Yasunao Tone and the Mechanics of InformationChapter 15 Complicating Place: Bill Fontana and Networking the SoundscapePart 6: Global Strings: Interpersonal and Network SpaceIntroduction to Part 6Chapter 16 Interactions: Achim Wollscheid's Production of the LocalChapter 17 Global Events: Atau Tanaka and Network as InstrumentChapter 18 Live Streams: Apo33 and Multiplying PlaceFade OutConclusion: Auditive PivotAppendix: Peripheries - subnature, phantom memory, and dirty listeningList of Works CitedIndex

O autorze

Brandon LaBelle is an artist, writer, and theorist working with sound culture, voice, and questions of agency. His books Acoustic Territories, Second Edition (2019), Background Noise, Second Edition (2015), and Lexicon of the Mouth (2014), are all published by Bloomsbury Academic. He is the Editor of Errant Bodies Press, Berlin, and Professor at the Art Academy, University of Bergen, Norway.