Resonances Helga de la Motte, Bernhard Leitner Kehrer Verlag, 2003 Sound art is one of the most fascinating phenomena in modern art. In recent years, more and more people have developed an interest in it: they apparently sense that this form of art touches on a fundamental experience. After all, at the very beginning, all of us got to know the world we live in as an acoustic space, before the sense of sight, which develops later, put us at a distance from the ...             Christian Marclay Douglas Kahn, Miwon Kwon, ... Steidl/UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2003 It is sound--and our culturally determined reactions to it--that forms the basis of Christian Marclay's genre- and media-crossing art. Fascinated by the translation of the audible into the visual, the theme that informs all of his work is the space between what we hear and what we see. Telephone conversation, movies, reviews of musical performances, compact discs and album covers have all ...             Achim Wollscheid: Selected Works: 1990-2000 Achim Wollscheid ERRANT BODIES PRESS/SELEKTION, 2001 "Achim Wollscheid: Selected Works, 1990-2000" is the first comprehensive look at this multimedia artist and writer's work with interactive electronic art in public space. The book documents such landmark works as "Connective Memory", a work installed in a technical high school which digitally "samples" and stores the students' voices; "Nordpol Bridge", which turns the movement on a pedestrian ...             Sound:Space Bernhard Leitner Hatje Cantz Publishers, 1999 By Bernhard Leitner.             Christina Kubisch: KlangRaumLichtZeit Antje von Graevenitz, Jessica Backhaus Kehrer Verlag, 2003 The German Christina Kubisch belongs to the first generation of sound artists. Trained as a composer, she has artistically developed such techniques as magnetic induction to realize her room-related installations of sound, light and music. Since the '70s, Kubisch has explored the possibilities of sound; today, she is one of the most important artists in her field. This book provides a ...             Writing Aloud Christof Migone Errant Bodies Press, 2001 Edited by Christof Migone, Brandon LaBelle.             Brandon LaBelle: Site Specific Sound With Audio CD Achim Wollscheid Errant Bodies Press, 2004 "Documenting a series of sound installations created since 1998 as part of the Beyond Music Sound Festival in Los Angeles. by sound artist, writer, and curator Brandon LaBelle, Site Specific Sound pries open architecture and the specifics of locality as a contingent form whose relationship to sounds extends well beyond acoustical phenomena. It suggests ways to understand the fabrication of space ...             Sound sculpture: A collection of essays by artists surveying the techniques, applications, and future ...1 review A.R.C. Publications, 1975 inspiring pictures, short short essays There's not a lot out there about sound sculpture. This is a good book with interesting but mostly useless texts. Lots of black and white pictures and drawings. Features Harry Partch, the Baschet Brothers, Lou Harrison, and others.             Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts5 reviews Douglas Kahn The MIT Press, 2001 fascinating, with a brilliant critique of Cage + A new voice for the silent spots in audio-theories + invaluable content. challenging vocabulary. + An astonishing history of art             Works with Sound Terry Fox, Eva Schmidt Kehrer Verlag, 2003 Works with Sound presents a complex body of work, comprising thirty years of sculptures, drawings, environments, and performances. Fox, who since the 1960s radically rejected traditional art forms and sought new ways of artistic expression, has been increasingly concerned with investigating the seldom-observed energetic aspects of materials. Hence, sound gained a central significance in his ...             Light as Air Felix Hess, Rolf Julius Kehrer Verlag, 2003 "I am not investigating in the objective world; I am investigating sensitivity." In this quotation, sound artist Felix Hess reveals a lot about his works of art: In his fragile-looking objects and installations, he constructs detectors to register sound waves, which we cannot perceive because they lie outside our range of hearing. Hess opens up a whole new world of unheard sounds and thus extends ...             Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music3 reviews Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004 Very comprehensive guide + Son likes it + just brilliant. This is a very comprehensive guide on the different sides of "audio culture". Many of the authors and readings you'll find here are among the most influential on the subject...From Luigi Russolo's futurist musical manifesto to Brian Eno's ambient music, coming across Stockhausen, Steve Reich, Cage, ...             Open 9: Sound (Open) Edwin Carels, Jonathan Sterne, ... NAi Publishers, 2006 In recent years both art and architecture have looked anew at the element of sound, and that interest has led to increased study of sound's potential to lend social or spatial meaning. What are the roles of sound and the sense of hearing in architecture and art in the public domain? This investigation offers perspectives from cultural philosophy, art theory and media theory, and provides fresh ...             Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art Brandon Labelle Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006 The rise of a prominent auditory culture, 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, ...             Qin Yufen Qin Yufen Wasmuth, 2002 Born in the Chinese town of Qindao in 1954, artist Qin Yufen has spent the last 15 years living and working in Berlin, a cross-cultural biography that in many ways is reflected in her site-sensitive installation work. Combining western artistic techiniques with such symbolically eastern materials as bamboo, rice paper, and silk, Qin engages an ongoing dialogue between form and content, ...             On Sonic Art (Contemporary Music Studies, V. 12) Trevor Wishart Routledge, 1996 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 ...             Aural Cultures YYZ Books, 2004 A timely and comprehensive essay collection that examines sound in art and contemporary culture. The authors come from a wide variety of backgrounds notably communication, anthropology, art history, film studies and philosophy. With an audio CD of 15 artists' works, including Shirin Neshat and Ann Hamilton.             Robin Minard: Silent Music, Between Sound Art and Acoustic Design Robin Minard, Helga de la Motte-Haber Kehrer Verlag, 2003 The Canadian composer and sound artist Robin Minard creates sound installations for public spaces. Working in the context of an environment increasingly polluted with noise, Minard aimes to stimulate the sense of hearing and to regain neglected synesthetic abilities. Including two compositions on CD, this book contains the most comprehensive documentation of Minard's sound installations and ...             Architecture as a Translation of Music: (Pamphlet Architecture 16)8 reviews Princeton Architectural Press, 1994 Maybe you are missing something? + Inspired me to change my major + PA16 + Space Calculated in Seconds For me, this is a thoughtful 80-page booklet touching, with a big broad-brush stroke, on some very intuative and evocative ideas on interdisciplinary work framed around ideas of time and space. To expect a book in the successful Pamphlet Architecture series to be an end all exhaustive study of ...             Site of Sound: of Architecture and the Ear Christof Migone Errant Bodies Press, 2000 Edited by Brandon LaBelle. Contributions by Steve Roden.