Hello

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Hello
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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

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What is Sound Art?
Varese, Cage and Musique Concrète
Labelle
Wishart
Neuhaus
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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
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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
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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
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...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
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What is Sound?
Communicates
Wave
Acoustic Water Dance
More Water Sound...
Fluid
Emanates
Vibrates
Propagates
agitates
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mksound
german lots of great sound art examples and fun
to boot!
Paul De Marinis
Max Neuhaus
umbrella speaker
Sound for Concave Surfaces
eude.nl
Jon Pigott
Edo Paulus Sound artist
The Sonic Marble Run
Sound Art
Kal Spelletich
The Cuddler
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More Sound Art...
Robin Minard
many speakers
Steve Heimbecker
Yasunao Tone
speaker chair dude LaBelle
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Laurens van der Wee
Found Instruments
No Sine Cure
Robert Minden Ensemble
Is it Sound Art?
Golan Levin
John Cage
Hydraulophone
Norman McLaren
Sound Toys
Bruce Cannon
Telephone
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Hildegard Westerkamp
Kitz Beach Soundwalk
Acoustic Ecology
World Soundscape Project
R. Murray Schafer
World Forum for Acoustic Ecology
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Cage Acoustic Ecology Musique Concrète
electroacoustics noise physical
the world of everyday sounds become material for
artists
Duchamps
conceptualism
abstraction
Picasso
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physical
themes
transplanting
filtering
Ubersound
space
recording
mapping
transformation
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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
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Questions?
sound art experiences to share?
thoughts?
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Who is me?
www.careydodge.ca