Environmental Sound Artists

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-023461-4
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 643 g

Environmental Sound Artists: In Their Own Words is an incisive and imaginative look at the international environmental sound art movement, which emerged in the late 1960s. The term environmental sound art is generally applied to the work of sound artists who incorporate processes in which the artist actively engages with the environment. While the field of environmental sound art is diverse and includes a variety of approaches, the art form diverges from traditional contemporary music by the conscious and strategic integration of environmental impulses and natural processes.

This book presents a current perspective on the environmental sound art movement through a collection of personal writings by important environmental sound artists. Dismayed by the limitations and gradual breakdown of contemporary compositional strategies, environmental sound artists have sought alternate venues, genres, technologies, and delivery methods for their creative expression. Environmental sound art is especially relevant because it addresses political, social, economic, scientific, and aesthetic issues. As a result, it has attracted the participation of artists internationally. Awareness and concern for the environment has connected and unified artists across the globe and has achieved a solidarity and clarity of purpose that is singularly unique and optimistic. The environmental sound art movement is borderless and thriving.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bianchi

Bianchi, Frederick

Manzo, V. J.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Denkansätze und Ideologie der Umweltschützer
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Klassische Musik des 20./21. Jahrhunderts

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Foreword

- Preface

- Acknowledgments

- Introduction

- 1. Sonifications of Global Environmental Data

- Andrea Polli

- 2. Sewer Pipe Organ

- Philip Blackburn

- 3. Biophonic Sound Sculptures in Public Spaces

- Bernie Krause

- 4. A Philosophical Report From Work-In-Progress

- David Dunn

- 5. Listening to the Earth

- John Bullitt

- 6. The Place Where You Go to Listen: An Ecosystem of Sound and Light

- John Luther Adams

- 7. Meltwater

- Cheryl E. Leonard

- 8. Hearing Curved Space

- Jeff Talman

- 9. River Listening

- Leah Barclay

- 10. Sun Boxes

- Craig Colorusso

- 11. Bridge Music and Tower Music

- Joseph Bertolozzi

- 12. Data as Music: Why Musically Encoded Sonification Design Offers a Rich Palette for Information Display

- Marty Quinn

- 13. Sonic Landscapes (finding a sense of place with my ears)

- Bruce Odland

- 14. Sonic Migrations: listening in-between, sensing place

- Ximena Alarcón

- 15. Sound Architecture

- Zimoun

- 16. The Sonic Ecology of Structures

- China Blue

- 17. Why Bring Nature Into Your Music?

- David Rothenberg

- 18. The Dawn Chorus

- Gordon Hempton

- 19. Bivvy Broadcasts

- Dawn Scarfe

- 20. A Philosophy of Eco-acoustics in the Interdisciplinary Project "Fragments of Extinction"

- David Monacchi

- 21. Towards Activist Sound: N30 Live at the WTO Protest November 30, 1999

- Christopher DeLaurenti

- 22. The Listening Experience of "Paramnesia"

- Aki Pasoulas

- 23. Musical Heuristics in Six Ecoacoustic Quintets

- Matthew Burtner

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Frederick Bianchi is a composer and music technologist. Recognized internationally for his musical compositions, installations, and innovative music technology development, Bianchi has been associated with interactive music applications since the mid-1980s.

V.J. Manzo is Assistant Professor of Music Technology and Cognition at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is the author of the books MAX/MSP/Jitter for Music, Foundations of Music Technology, and co-author of Interactive Composition, all published by Oxford University Press.