Sonic Forms and Acoustic Matter - An Investigation into the Sculptural Possibilities for Conjunctions of Sound and Materiality

ISBN-13: 9783639106640 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 60 str.

Martin Sims

Opis

This book is an account of art works made between 1997-2002 that investigated convergences of recorded sound and physical materiality. These activities fused autobiography with wider historical perspectives in an openly interpretive engagement with the symbolism of heritage sites. In addition, I have drawn upon sources such as radio broadcasts together with the digital acoustics of video game parlours to reposition notions of simulation, facsimile and electronic information as so much virtual weight. The projects were formulated as site-specific installations following diverse lines of enquiry, which included an examination of the acoustics of geographical space; travel throughout India and Japan to study sonic relations within architectural forms, and recording at other global locations in furtherance of a project concerned with the enigma of silent spaces.

O autorze

Martin Sims was born in England and moved to Australia in 1985
where he now lives and works. He has an extensive artistic
background in sculpture and installation practices with
exhibition projects spanning the last 25 years. He is Senior
Lecturer in sculpture at the University of New South Wales.