Brandon Labelle

Background Noise, Second Edition (eBook, PDF)

Perspectives on Sound Art

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Background Noise follows the development of sound as an artistic medium and illustrates how sound is put to use within modes of composition, installation, and performance. While chronological in its structure, Brandon LaBelle's book is informed by spatial thinking - weaving architecture, environments, and the specifics of location into the work of sound, with the aim of formulating an expansive history and understanding of sound art.

At its center the book presupposes an intrinsic relation between sound and its location, galvanizing acoustics, sound phenomena, and the environmental with the tensions inherent in what LaBelle identifies as sound's relational dynamic. For the author, this is embedded within sound's tendency to become public expressed in its ability to travel distances, foster cultural expression, and define spaces while being radically flexible.

This second expanded edition includes a new chapter on the non-human and subnatural tendencies in sound art, revisions to the text as well as a new preface by the author. Intersecting material analysis with theoretical frameworks spanning art and architectural theory, performance studies and media theory, Background Noise makes the case that sound and sound art are central to understandings of contemporary culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781628923537
• Artikelnr.: 48421826

Autorenporträt

Brandon LaBelle is an artist, writer and artistic director of The Listening Biennial and related Listening Academy. His work focuses on questions of agency, community, and poetics, which results in a range of collaborative and extra-institutional initiatives. In 1995 he founded Errant Bodies Press, an independent publishing project. His publications include: Dreamtime X (2022), Acoustic Justice (Bloomsbury 2021), The Other Citizen (2020), Sonic Agency (2018), Lexicon of the Mouth (Bloomsbury 2014), Acoustic Territories (Bloomsbury 2010, 2019), and Background Noise (Bloomsbury 2006, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

AcknowledgementsPreface to the Second EditionIntroduction: Auditory RelationsFade InPart 1: 4'33": Sound and Points of OriginIntroduction to Part 1Chapter 1 Sociality of Sound: John Cage and Musical ConceptsChapter 2 Exposing the Sound Object:Musique Concrète's Sonic ResearchChapter 3 Automatic Music: Group Ongaku's Performative LaborsPart 2: Box with the Sound of Its Own Making: From Gags to Sculptural FormIntroduction to Part 2Chapter 4 Rhythms of Chaos: Happenings, Environments, and FluxusChapter 5 Minimalist Treatments: La Monte Young and Robert MorrisChapter 6 Conceptualizations:Michael Asher and the Subject of SpacePart 3: I Am Sitting in a Room: Vocal IntensitiesIntroduction to Part 3Chapter 7 Performing Desire/ Performing Fear: Vito Acconci and the Power Plays of VoiceChapter 8 Finding Oneself: Alvin Lucier and the Phenomenal VoiceChapter 9 Word of Mouth: Christof Migone's Little ManiasPart 4: Public Supply: Buildings, Constructions, and Locational ListeningIntroduction to Part 4Chapter 10 Tuning Space:Max Neuhaus and Site-Specific SoundChapter 11 Other Architectures:Michael Brewster, Maryanne Amacher, and Bernhard LeitnerChapter 12 Composing Intensities: Iannis Xenakis's Multimedia ArchitecturesPart 5: Soundmarks: Environments and Aural GeographyIntroduction to Part 5Chapter 13 Seeking Ursound: Hildegard Westerkamp, Steve Peters, and the SoundscapeChapter 14 Language Games: Yasunao Tone and the Mechanics of InformationChapter 15 Complicating Place: Bill Fontana and Networking the SoundscapePart 6: Global Strings: Interpersonal and Network SpaceIntroduction to Part 6Chapter 16 Interactions: Achim Wollscheid's Production of the LocalChapter 17 Global Events: Atau Tanaka and Network as InstrumentChapter 18 Live Streams: Apo33 and Multiplying PlaceFade OutConclusion: Auditive PivotAppendix: Peripheries - subnature, phantom memory, and dirty listeningList of Works CitedIndex

Rezensionen

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. Written by The Wire's contributor Brandon Labelle, 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. The Wire 2010