Full Description
Sound art has long been resistant to its own definition. Emerging from a liminal space between movements of thought and practice in the twentieth century, sound art has often been described in terms of the things that it is understood to have left behind: a space between music, fine art, and performance. The Oxford Handbook of Sound Art surveys the practices, politics, and emerging frameworks of thought that now define this previously amorphous area of study.
Throughout the Handbook, artists and thinkers explore the uses of sound in contemporary arts practice. Imbued with global perspectives, chapters are organized in six overarching themes of Space, Time, Things, Fabric, Senses and Relationality. Each theme represents a key area of development in the visual arts and music during the second half of the twentieth century from which sound art emerged. By offering a set of thematic frameworks through which to understand these themes, this Handbook situates constellations of disparate thought and practice into recognized centers of activity.
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
Jane Grant, John Matthias and David Prior
Space
1. Keynote: Witnessing Space
Andrea Polli
2. Danfo
Emeka Ogboh
3. Felt Spaces
Gernot Böhme
4. Sound in Mediated Space
DooEun Choi
5. Inhabiting the Uninhabitable: atmospheres and boundaries as other worlds
Jane Grant
Time
6. Keynote: Sound and Time
Christoph Cox
7. Now in the Network
Michael Rofe
8. The Inter-human Cortex
John Matthias
9. Space-Time and Integrated Systems
Pasha Ian Clothier
10. Sound and Wonder: Siren, Ethnometric Museum and the sound art theatre of Ray Lee
Ray Lee
11. The Art that is made out of Time
Stephen Kennedy
Things
12. Keynote: Sound and Thing
Aden Evens
13. Sacrificial Floors and Tables: Making/ Unmaking Sound
John Richards
14. The Unreliable Mediator: Loudspeakers in Sound Art
David Prior
15. A New Materiality: Post Speaker Sound Art
Fari Bradley
16. The Ding in Itself
John Mowitt
17. Sound Art as Locative Narrative
Emma Whittaker
Fabric
18. Keynote: Sound is Silence
Greg Hainge
19. Woven, torn and stitched: The fabrication of Sound
Dugal McKinnon
20. 'And I listened to the whistlings and patterlings outside': Hearing the Wild Spaces as sound
Angus Carlyle
21. Against a falling Fabric: Neoliberal Acousmatics
Seth Kim-Cohen
22. Sound's Embrace: The Art of Building with Sound
Frances Crow
23. Fukushima: Silences That Count
Sophie Houdart
Senses
24. Keynote: Sonic Sense: The Meaning of the Invisible
Salomé Voegelin
25. Last Breath, Sensing Life
Zeynep Bulut
26. Soundfullness (pitch black)
Christof Migone
27. Chthonic: 72 hours below Earth day: the sensed, the remembered, the lost and the reconstructed
Louise K. Wilson
28. An Experience of Listening
Sue Denham and István Winkler
29. Intimate Listening
Mark Paterson
Relationality
30. Keynote: Relationality and Matrixal Listening
Brandon Labelle
31. Composing Fragmented Relations with Materials, Locations and Archives
Jen Southern and Samuel Thulin
32. Sound Art: Hearing in particular
John Drever
33. The Sonic Undercommons: Sound Art in Radical Black Arts Traditions
Gascia Ouzonian
34. The Sonic Color Line and the Listening Ear: Amplifying the Whiteness of Sound Art's
Historiography
Jennifer Lyn Stoever
35. A Social Sonic Paradigm: Sound Art in Southern Africa
Tegan Bristow and Joao Orrechia
36. State Listening
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