Much sound art is fixed for its presentation in a gallery, but that doesn’t mean improvisation isn’t occasionally called for. Last Saturday, December 1, was the closing reception for David Kwan’s Emergence exhibit at Mission 17 in San Francisco (…
Recent Items from the World of Sound Art: (1) From a New York Times overview of the Art Basel Miami Beach festival, which closes tomorrow (nytimes.com):
Installations by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, the subjects of a survey …
From African Feedback (Errant Bodies), the new book by Alessandro Bosetti:
For example, there are old men who have guns, weapons that they killed animals with. Then you put the sound of these guns into the computer and they can …
The sound artist Christian Marclay, the creator of such landmark works as “Video Quartet” and “Guitar Drag,” doesn’t listen to much music. He’s a big Marcel Duchamp fan — not a big surprise for one of the most prominent utilizers …
He’s one of electronica’s great Doctor Moreaus, and there’s an hour-long performance from early 2005 available for download. His name is Pierre Bastien, and he makes automaton orchestras that plink and pound, scratch and hum, like a collective of Pinocchios …
The Other Minds catalog of recordings housed at the Internet Archive (aka archive.org) contains decades of recordings, an ongoing history of 20th- (and, now, 21st-) century classical music. And it’s updated regularly.
Perhaps setting its own record for the shortest …
Touch Radio is the online audio-station (cum netlabel) offspring of the excellent record label Touch. Previous freely downloadable entries in the occasional series have included work by the likes of Steve Roden (coiner of the term “lowercase sound”) and field-recording …
Everything about No Country for Old Men, the new Joel and Ethan Coen movie, is, in a word, stark: the landscape, the atmosphere, the violence, the faces, the performances. It’s not that the film has shed any vestige of …
This is the closing paragraph of the article “Tune In Tokyo: On Tour in a Land of Noise” by Trent Moorman from the November 28, 2007, edition of The Stranger (thestranger.com):
It’s almost 2:00 a.m. and the crowds have …