John Grayson (ed.): Sound Sculpture: A Collection of Essays by Artists Surveying the Techniques, Applications, and Future Directions of Sound Sculpture (1975)
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Sound Sculpture is the first publication to deal completely with this new art form. It’s a collection of over 30 articles and essays by an international cross section of Sound Sculptors who define and outline the field. It’s also a definitive introduction to the history of Sound Sculpturing. Included are over 150 photographs and drawings illustrating the construction of such unusual projects as: how to build a Western Gamelan (Balanese ‘orchestra’), examples of giant environmental Sound Sculptures, Sound Sculpture designed for a new ‘people’s music,’ and so on.
Contributing artists include Harry Partch, Bernard Baschet, François Baschet, Stephan Von Huene, David Jacobs, John Chowning, Walter Wright, David Rothenberg, Lou Harrison, David Rosenboom, Bill Colvig, Corey Fischer, R. Murray Schafer, and others.
Publisher A.R.C. Publications, Aesthetic Research Centre of Canada, Vancouver, 1975
ISBN 0889850003
196 pages
Wellmer, Leyton-Grant, Khalidi (eds.): Everything is Real: Alvin Lucier in Den Haag (2010)
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This book contains a collection of texts, scores and interviews to accompany the Dag in de Branding programme book, published on the occasion of the TAG/Dag in de Branding event, Alvin Lucier in Den Haag.
Everything Is Real is the title of the lecture by Alvin Lucier held on 30 May 2010 at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.
Editors: Anne Wellmer, Janet Leyton-Grant, Hicham Khalidi
Publisher TAG Publishing, The Hague, 2010
ISBN 9490936014, 9789490936013
63 pages
Sound recordings, Alvin Lucier’s Music for Solo Performer, 29 May 2010, and lecture, 30 May 2010, The Hague
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Comment (0)Alan Licht: Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories (2007)
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“Over the past century, an art form has emerged that draws from the worlds of visual art and music. Sound art’s roots can be found in the experimental work of Italian Futurism, Dada, and later the Fluxus group and the pioneering efforts of the American composer and artist John Cage. In the wake of this groundbreaking work, sound art began to mature into a movement, and artists explored the interactive possibilities of sound and in turn created entirely new modes of experiencing and engaging with art. In this volume, the complete story of sound art is told by one of the country’s leading critics and scholars. The author traces the history of this form of art–highlighting the convergence of the indie world bands such as Sonic Youth with the art world–looking at the critical cross-pollination that has led to some of the most important and challenging art being produced today, including work by Christian Marclay, LaMonte Young, Janet Cardiff, Rodney Graham, and Laurie Anderson, among many others.”
Foreword by Jim O’Rourke
Publisher Rizzoli, New York, 2007
ISBN 0847829693, 9780847829699
304 pages
Review: Kenneth Goldsmith (Postmodern Culture, 2008).
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