Sound art
Contents
Pages
- +3dB
- Peter Ablinger
- Milan Adamčiak
- Luis Alvarado
- Miguel Álvarez-Fernández
- Maryanne Amacher
- Laurie Anderson
- Andras Blazsek
- Audio Gruppe
- Audio Scene '79
- AudioHyperspace
- Sam Auinger
- AUT
- André Avelãs
- Younes Baba-Ali
- Magali Babin
- Ain Bailey
- Natasha Barrett
- Baschet Brothers
- Dennis Báthory-Kitsz
- Bb15
- Béchard Hudon
- Justin Bennett
- Harry Bertoia
- Myriam Bleau
- René Block
- Ursula Block
- Fari Bradley
- Tania Candiani
- Janet Cardiff
- Kabir Carter
- Daniela Cascella
- André Castro
- Raquel Castro
- Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies
- Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
- Roz Cheney
- Giuseppe Chiari
- Lin Chiwei
- City Sonic
- Nicolas Collins
- Martine H. Crispo
- Florencia Curci
- Robert Curgenven
- Alvin Curran
- Peter Cusack
- Paul DeMarinis
- Bill Dietz
- David Dunn
- Lloyd Dunn
- Lina Džuverović
- E/static
- Echo City
- Espen Sommer Eide
- Jessica Ekomane
- Eleonora Oreggia
- Ephemeral Sustainability
- Extrapool
- Festival for Applied Acoustics
- Flanders Festival Kortrijk
- Bill Fontana
- Carlo Fossati
- Jez riley French
- Anna Friz
- Ellen Fullman
- Marco Fusinato
- Bernhard Gál
- Christian Galarreta
- Raviv Ganchrow
- Richard Garet
- Gelbe Musik
- Generation Z
- GEZ-21
- Sanne Krogh Groth
- Heidi Grundmann
- Jonáš Gruska
- Milan Grygar
- John Grzinich
- Göteborg Art Sounds
- Yolande Harris
- Hanna Hartman
- Her Noise
- Felix Hess
- Het Apollohuis
- Marla Hlady
- Hannes Hoelzl
- The Hole Gallery
- Derek Holzer
- Cat Hope
- Phoebe Hui
- Ryoji Ikeda
- Institute for Sonic Arts Research
- Institute of Sonology
- Intro in situ
- Inventionen
- IRZU
- Manuel Rocha Iturbide
- David Jacobs
- Arsenije Jovanović
- Jérôme Joy
- Phil Julian
- Rolf Julius
- Douglas Kahn
- Christine Sun Kim
- Nicolaj Kirisits
- Jacob Kirkegaard
- Elvar Mar Kjartansson
- Klangkustfest
- Klingt.org
- Milan Knížák
- Konstmusiksystrar
- Kontakte
- Katarzyna Krakowiak
- Christina Kubisch
- Roland Kuit
- Kunstradio
- Peter Kutin
- Slavek Kwi
- Joan La Barbara
- Brandon LaBelle
- Katalin Ladik
- LAK Festival
- Dan Lander
- Cathy Lane
- Jørgen Larsson
- Ray Lee
- Bernhard Leitner
- Signe Lidén
- Kajsa Lindgren
- Lisboa Soa
- Edwin Lo
- Annea Lockwood
- Barbara London
- Francisco López
- Trond Lossius
- Alvin Lucier
- Lydgalleriet
- John Macedo
- Peter Machajdík
- Christian Marclay
- Stuart Marshall
- Reinhold Pieper Marxhausen
- Kaffe Matthews
- Charles Mattox
- Benoît Maubrey
- Víctor Mazón
- Radboud Mens
- Christof Migone
- Mileece
- Robin Minard
- Helga de la Motte-Haber
- Michal Murin
- Rie Nakajima
- Nendú
- Anne Hilde Neset
- Netaudio
- Max Neuhaus
- Daniel Neumann
- New Radio and Performing Arts
- Phill Niblock
- Carsten Nicolai
- Atle Selnes Nielsen
- NK
- Arne Nordheim
- Nordic Sound Art
- Katharine Norman
- Camille Norment
- Alberto Novello
- NyMusikk
- Jonas Olesen
- Hans Otte
- Gascia Ouzounian
- Overtoon
- Paul Panhuysen
- Maria Papadomanolaki
- Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri
- Harry Partch
- Rubén Patiño
- Susan Philipsz
- Liz Phillips
- Phonofemme
- Per Platou
- PNEM
- Gert-Jan Prins
- Q-O2
- RadiaLx
- Karim Rafi
- Reboot.fm
- Resonance
- Resonanzen
- Martins Rokis
- Jøran Rudi
- Søs Gunver Ryberg
- Aura Satz
- Tomoko Sauvage
- Scanner
- Janek Schaefer
- R. Murray Schafer
- Matija Schellander
- Jean-Robert Sedano and Solveig de Ory
- Carsten Seiffarth
- La Semaine du Son
- Nobuhisa Shimoda
- Singuhr Hoergalerie
- Skálar
- Walter Smetak
- Rasa Smite & Raitis Smits
- Rune Søchting
- Morten Søndergaard
- Sonambiente
- Sonic Arts Research Centre
- Sonic Arts Union
- Sonica
- SONM Archive
- Sound around Kaliningrad
- Soundcamp/Reveil
- SoundFjord
- Sounds. Radio – Art – New Music
- Staalplaat
- STEIM
- Steklenik
- Akio Suzuki
- Kent Tankred
- Pär Thörn
- Thorolf Thuestad
- Yasunao Tone
- David Toop
- Transcultures
- Trimpin
- Andreas Trobollowitsch
- Tsonami
- Toshiya Tsunoda
- UbuWeb
- Ultra-red
- Tetsuya Umeda
- Maia Urstad
- Edwin van der Heide
- Anette Vandsø
- Marco Vanoppen
- Mario de Vega
- Elin Øyen Vister
- Stephen Vitiello
- Salomé Voegelin
- Peter Vogel
- Carl Michael von Hausswolff
- Stephan von Huene
- Changcun Wang
- Hong-Kai Wang
- Weis Ward
- Hildegard Westerkamp
- Dan Wilson
- Jana Winderen
- Mark Peter Wright
- John Wynne
- Xchange
- Zhongqi Xie
- Dajuin Yao
- Yeung Yang
- Samson Young
Bibliography
Journals and Magazines
- The Wire, London. [1]
- China: the Sonic Avant-Garde, 2 issues, 2005-2006. (in Chinese)
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Miguel Molina Alarcón, Baku: Symphony of Sirens: Sound Experiments in The Russian Avant-Garde, 2008. View online.
Catalogues, Booklets and Brochures
- Germano Celant, The Record as Artwork: From Futurism to Conceptual Art, Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1977, 121 pp. (in English/French) [2] [3]
- René Block, Lorenz Dombois, Nele Herltling, Barbara Volkmann (eds.), Für Augen und Ohren. Von der Spieluhr zum akustischen Environment. Objekte. Installationen. Performances, Berlin: Akademie der Künste, 1980, 312 pp. (in German). Catalogue for a large-scale exhibition curated by Nele Hertling and René Block. [4] [5]
- Ursula Block, Michael Glasmeier (eds.), Broken Music: Artists' Recordworks, DAAD Galerie, 1989, 279 pp. A discography of recordings by visual artists and experimental audioworks. [6] [7]
- Dan Lander (ed.), Sound by Artists, Toronto: Art Metropole/Walter Phillips Gallery, 1990.
- Christine van Assche (ed.), Sonic Process. A new geography of sounds, Barcelona: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2002.
- Bernd Schulz (ed.), Resonanzen. Aspekte der Klangkunst, Saarbrücken: Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, 2003. With CD. (in German)
- Miguel Molina Alarcón, Baku: Symphony of Sirens: Sound Experiments in The Russian Avant-Garde. Original Documents and Reconstructions of 72 Key Works of Music, Poetry and Agitprop from the Russian Avantgardes (1908-1942), London: ReR Megacorp, 2008, 72 pp. With 2-CD.
- Andrey Smirnov, Liubov Pchelkina, Pokolenie Z [ПОКОЛЕНИЕ Z], St. Petersburg: PRO ARTE Foundation, 2010, 20 pp. Booklet-newspaper of the Generation Z exhibition. (Russian).
- Pokolenie Z [ПОКОЛЕНИЕ Z], Moscow: Polytechnic Museum, 2011, 20 pp. Booklet-newspaper of the Generation Z exhibition. (in Russian)
- Generation Z: Russian Pioneers of Sound Art and Musical Technology in 1910-1930, Budapest: OSA Archivum, 2011, 20 pp. Booklet-newspaper of the Generation Z exhibition. (in English/Hungarian)
- Sounds. Radio - Art - New Music, Berlin: n.b.k., 2010, 32 pp.
- David Crowley, Daniel Muzyczuk, Sounding the Body Electric: Experiments in Art and Music in Eastern Europe 1957–1984, Łódź: Muzeum Sztuki, 2012, 222 pp. (in English/Polish)
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John Grayson (ed.), Sound Sculpture, 1975. Download.
Anthologies
- John Grayson (ed.), Sound Sculpture: A Collection of Essays by Artists Surveying the Techniques, Applications, and Future Directions of Sound Sculpture, Vancouver: Aesthetic Research Centre of Canada, 1975, 196 pp.
- Caleb Kelly (ed.), Sound, London: Whitechapel Gallery, with MIT Press, 2011, 239 pp.
Book series
- Sound Studies book series, Bloomsbury.
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Luigi Russolo, The Art of Noises, 1916-. Download (IT, EN, ES, DE, FR, RU).
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Trevor Wishart, On Sonic Art, 1985/1996. Download.
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David Toop, Ocean of Sound, 1995. Download.
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Douglas Kahn, Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts, 1999. Download.
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Allen S. Weiss (ed.), Experimental Sound & Radio, 2000. Download.
Monographs, Edited books
Monographs on individual artists are included in their respective pages.
- Luigi Russolo, L’Arte dei rumori, Milan: Edizione Futuriste di Poesia, 1916, 92 pp. (in Italian). The manifesto was first published on 11 March 1913.
- The Art of Noises, trans. Robert Filliou, Something Else Press, 1967. Manifesto only.
- The Art of Noises, trans. Barclay Brown, New York: Pendragon, 1987, 87 pp.
- "El arte de los ruidos. Manifiesto Futurista", Sin Titulo 3 (1996), UCLM, pp 8-15. (in Spanish). Manifesto only.
- Die Geräuschkunst, trans. Justin Winkler and Albert Mayr, Basel: Akroama, 1999. (in German)
- L’Art des bruits. Manifeste futuriste, 2003; 4th ed., 2013. (in French). Manifesto only.
- Iskusstvo shumov [Искусство шумов]. (in Russian). The manifesto only.
- Trevor Wishart, On Sonic Art, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1985; 2nd ed., ed. Simon Emmerson, Routledge, 1996, 357 pp.
- Helga de la Motte-Haber, Musik und Bildende Kunst. Von der Tonmalerei zur Klangskulptur, Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 1990.
- David Toop, Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds, Serpent’s Tail, 1995, 306 pp; 2001.
- Adalaide Kirby Morris (ed.), Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies, University of North Carolina Press, 1997, 349 pp.
- Douglas Kahn, Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts, MIT Press, 1999, 455 pp.
- Helga de la Motte-Haber (ed.), Klangkunst: Tönende Objekte und klingende Räume, Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 1999, 352 pp. (in German). Review, Review.
- Brandon LaBelle, Steve Roden (eds.), Site of Sound: Of architecture and the ear, Los Angeles: Errant Bodies/Smart Art, 1999.
- Karin von Maur, Vom Klang der Bilder, Munich, 1999. (in German)
- Allen S. Weiss (ed.), Experimental Sound & Radio, MIT Press, 2000, 188 pp.
- Jozef Cseres, Hudobné simulakrá, Bratislava: Hudobné centrum, 2001. (in Slovak)
- Curtis Roads, Microsound, MIT Press, 2002, 423 pp.
- Bernd Schulz (ed.), Resonanzen/Resonances. Aspekte der Klangkunst/Aspects of Sound Art, Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2002. (in German)
- Ken Ehrlich, Brandon LaBelle, Surface Tension: Problematics of site, Los Angeles: Errant Bodies, 2003.
- Maja Kuzmanovic, nadine, Annemie Maes, Yves Bernard (eds.), .x-med-a., experimental media arts, Brussels, 2006, 156 pp.
- Helga de la Motte-Haber, Matthias Osterwold, Georg Weckwerth (eds.), Sonambiente Berlin 2006: Klang Kunst Sound Art, Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2006.
- Christoph Cox, "From Music to Sound: Being as Time in the Sonic Arts", pp 214–223.
- Anne Thurmann-Jajes, Sabine Breitsameter, Winfried Pauleit (eds.), Sound Art – Zwischen Avantgarde und Popkultur, Cologne: Salon, 2006. (in German)
- Brandon LaBelle, Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art, Continuum, 2006, 316 pp.
- Alan Licht, Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories, New York: Rizzoli, 2007, 304 pp. Foreword by Jim O’Rourke. [8]
- Leigh Landy, Understanding the Art of Sound Organization, MIT Press, 2007, 303 pp.
- Tony Gibbs, The Fundamentals of Sonic Art & Sound Design, AVA, 2007, 175 pp.
- Julia Kursell (ed.), Sounds of Science – Schall im Labor (1800–1930), Berlin: Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2008, 134 pp. (in English and German)
- Ulrich Tadday (ed.), Klangkunst, Munich, 2008. (in German)
- Seth Kim-Cohen, In the Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art, New York and London: Continuum, 2009, 296 pp.
- Craig Dworkin, Unheard Music, information as material, 2010, 30 pp.
- Thomas Bey William Bailey, Micro Bionic: Radical Electronic Music & Sound Art in the 21st Century, Creation Books, 2009; 2nd ed., Belsona Books, 2012, 417 pp.
- Salomé Voegelin, Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art, Continuum, 2010, 256 pp.
- Peter Kiefer (ed.), Klangräume der Kunst, Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2010. With Video-DVD. (in German)
- Tara Rodgers, Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound, Duke University Press, 2010, 322 pp. [9]
- Douglas Kahn, The Aelectrosonic, eds. Arie Altena and Sonic Acts, Sonic Acts Press, 2011, 64 pp.
- Carsten Seiffarth, Carsten Stabenow, Golo Föllmer (eds.), Sound Exchange: Anthology of Experimental Music Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe 1950-2010, Saarbrücken: PFAU, 2012. (in English/German)
- Andrey Smirnov, Sound in Z: Experiments in Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th-century Russia, London: Koenig Books & Sound and Music, 2013, 281 pp.
- Douglas Kahn, Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts, University of California Press, 2013, 344 pp. [10]
- Seth Kim-Cohen, Against Ambience, Bloomsbury, 2013. [11]
- Salomé Voegelin, Sonic Possible Worlds: Hearing the Continuum of Sound, Bloomsbury, 2014 (forthcoming).
Journal issues
- Organised Sound: An International Journal of Music and Technology, 14(1): Sound Art, ed. Jøran Rudi, Cambridge University Press, 2009, 115 pp.
- Leonardo Music Journal, Vol. 23: Sound Art, ed. Nicolas Collins, 2013, 106 pp. [12]
- Seismograf/DMT: Urbanitet, lyd og kunst, eds. af Kristine Samson and Sanne Krogh Groth, November 2012. (in Danish)
- Seismograf/DMT: Japansk lydkunst, September 2011. (in Danish)
Theses
- Yolande Harris, Scorescapes: On Sound, Environment and Sonic Consciousness, Leiden University, 2011, 146 pp.
Bibliographies
- Articles and papers on sound art, compiled by Jérôme Joy and Thom Holmes.
- Selected articles about sound art at SoundArtArchive.net
Resources
- Sound at UbuWeb
- Sound Art Archive.net
- Ràdio Web MACBA
- ICA SoundWorks
- SONM Archive, Sound Archive of Experimental Music and Sound Art
- Soundbag, an internet project by Rolf Langebartel
- Her Noise Archive, a resource of collected materials investigating music and sound histories in relation to gender, by Anne Hilde Neset and Lina Džuverović.
- Ear Room, an online interview publication focusing on the complex use of sound in artistic practice, by Mark Peter Wright.
- Tacet, annual bilingual (French and English) experimental music review (*2012). [13]
- Ekho: Women in Sonic Art
- Sound art in Latin America
- Sound art exhibitions timeline, compiled by Jérôme Joy and Thom Holmes. Former version.
- J Milo Taylor, A History of Sound Art, 2011.
See also
Field recording, Radio art, Sound studies, Noise, Circuit bending, SuperCollider, Sensory ethnography.