Max Neuhaus: Evocare l’udibile / Évoquer l’auditif (1995) [IT/FR, EN]

Catalogue for the exhibition held at Villa Arson, Nice (FR), and Castello di Rivoli, Turin (IT), in 1995. With texts by Stuart Morgan, Yehuda Safran, a.o.

“The Drawing After

After finishing a sound work, if time allows, I wait several months before listening to it again. This is the first time I can stand outside the work and see what it is that I have made. It is only at this point after experiencing the work with distance that I make its circumscription drawing.

This drawing, two panels, a visual image and a handwritten text, integrates two traditional forms of communication to circumscribe something both invisible and indescribable. The image is not the drawing nor is the text: the drawing is what they synthesize together. When read in parallel, they evoke a central idea of the sound work, a point of departure and a reference, for reflection.” (Max Neuhaus, source [includes also an English version of a text by Yehuda Safran included in the catalogue])

Publisher Charta, Milan, 1995
ISBN 8881580462, 9788881580460
129 pages
via Charles

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Transcriptions of descriptions of the featured works (in English, TXT)
Web version of the exhibition (at Max-Neuhaus.info)

See also Max Neuhaus, Sound Works, 3 vols., 1994.

Pierre Schaeffer: In Search of a Concrete Music (1952/2012)

“Pierre Schaeffer’s In Search of a Concrete Music has long been considered a classic text in electroacoustic music and sound recording. Now Schaeffer’s pioneering work—at once a journal of his experiments in sound composition and a treatise on the raison d’être of “concrete music”—is available for the first time in English translation. Schaeffer’s theories have had a profound influence on composers working with technology. However, they extend beyond the confines of the studio and are applicable to many areas of contemporary musical thought, such as defining an ‘instrument’ and classifying sounds. Schaeffer has also become increasingly relevant to DJs and hip-hop producers as well as sound-based media artists. This unique book is essential for anyone interested in contemporary musicology or media history.”

First published as À la recherche d’une musique concrète, Seuil, Paris, 1952.

Translated by Christine North and John Dack
Publisher University of California Press, 2012
ISBN 0520265742, 9780520265745
225 pages

Reviews: Daniela Cascella (Los Angeles Review of Books, 2013), Brian Kane (Organised Sound, 2013), Warren Burt (SoundBytes, 2014).

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More from Schaeffer on Monoskop wiki (writings), UbuWeb (recordings), and Artsonores (films).

Ear | Wave | Event, 1 (2014)

Ear │ Wave │ Event is a web publication founded and edited by Bill Dietz and Woody Sullender. Its premiere issue contains essays “theoretically framing problems of sonic thinking and articulation (by Peter Ablinger, Amy Cimini & Woody Sullender, Sean Griffin, Jessica Feldman, G Douglas Barrett & Lindsey Lodhie) along with a battery of alternative genealogies for musical practice and thought offering ways out of what feels more and more like the dead-lock of the “sound” scene (Matt Marble, Marina Rosenfeld, Dima Strakovsky, Sean Griffin, Catherine Christer Hennix, Peter Ablinger).” (from the Introduction)

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