Brandon LaBelle: Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (2006)
Filed under book | Tags: · music, music history, noise, sound art, sound recording
The rise of a prominent auditory culture, as seen in the recent plethora of art exhibitions on sound art, in conjunction with academic programs dedicated to “aural culture”, sonic art, and auditory issues now emerging, reveals the degree to which sound art is lending definition to the 21st Century. And yet sound art still lacks related literature to compliment, and expand, the realm of practice.
Background Noise sets out an historical overview, while at the same time shaping that history according to what sound art reveals – the dynamics of art to operate spatially, through media of reproduction and broadcast, and in relation to the intensities of communication and its contextual framework.
Publisher Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006
ISBN 0826418457, 9780826418456
316 pages
PDF (no OCR; some pages missing; updated on 2012-11-4)
Comments (2)David Toop: Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds (1995/2001)
Filed under book | Tags: · computer music, electroacoustic music, electronic music, experimental music, music history, sound art, sound recording
Sun Ra, Brian Eno, Lee Perry, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Brian Wilson are interviewed in this extraordinary work of sonic history that travels from the rainforests of amazonas to virtual Las Vegas, from David Lynch’s dream house, high in the Hollywood hills to the megalopolis of Tokyo.
Ocean of Sound begins in 1889 at the Paris Exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed. It goes on to comprehensively map a whole century of ambient music and its legacy.
Publisher Serpent’s Tail, 1995
ISBN 185242382X, 9781852423827
306 pages
PDF (updated on 2012-8-3)
Download 2x CD
Trevor Wishart: On Sonic Art, 2nd ed (1985/1996)
Filed under book | Tags: · acoustics, computer music, electronic music, music, sound art, sound recording, voice
“In this newly revised book On Sonic Art, Trevor Wishart takes a wide-ranging look at the new developments in music-making and musical aesthetics made possible by the advent of the computer and digital information processing. His emphasis is on musical rather than technical matters. Beginning with a critical analysis of the assumptions underlying the Western musical tradition and the traditional acoustic theories of Pythagoras and Helmholtz, he goes on to look in detail at such topics as the musical organization of complex sound-objects, using and manipulating representational sounds and the various dimensions of human and non-human utterance. In so doing, he seeks to learn lessons from areas (poetry and sound-poetry, film, sound effects and animal communication) not traditionally associated with the field of music.”
A new and revised edition edited by Simon Emmerson
Publisher Routledge, 1996
ISBN 371865847X, 9783718658473
357 pages
PDF (7 MB, updated on 2015-12-3)
Comment (1)