From: Eric Leonardson (eleona@saic.edu)
Date: Sat Feb 26 2011 - 11:42:12 EST
In a talk Mark Trayle gave he quoted Ron Kuivila as saying, "Sound is a
sloppy signifier."
Eric
Quoting moko@city-net.com:
> Another good source on terminology is Landy _Art of Organized Sound_
>
> --David
>
> >
> > Another way of thinking about Sound Art (or Sound for Artists).
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> >> From: kathy kennedy <kathykennedy@sympatico.ca>
> >> Date: 2011 February 24 11:51:02 AM EST
> >> To: eamt@concordia.ca
> >> Subject: Re: critical theory and electroacoustics
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >> ...
> >> I wanted to add to this point that the "acousmatique" tradition is
> >> precisely about pure sound, stripped of its connection to the source or
> >> social context. And so the route of critical theory is not particularly
> >> relevant.
> >> But when Max Neuhaus started putting sounds under the sidewalk of Times
> >> Square in the early seventies, these sounds became integrally connected
> >> to their place of diffusion. This is when the term Sound Art began being
> >> used. And since then, there has been a burgeoning of sound-based work
> >> that has been addressing the critical theory practice of the visual
> >> arts. Now there is more critical theory out there than you can shake a
> >> stick at, or a cat, or whatever the term is.
> >>
> >> Douglas Kahn is one of the earliest with his tome Noise, Water, Meat (or
> >> something like that)
> >> Christoph Cox's Audio Cultures is a great survey of writings
> >> Brandon Labelle is one of the foremost authors, with the book Background
> >> Noise: Perspectives in Sound Art, and many other books and articles
> >> Alan Licht has another important book called Sound Art
> >> Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky has terrific stuff in his book Sound
> >> Unbound.
> >> Susan McClary is the foremost scholar on feminist issues with her book
> >> Feminine Endings
> >>
> >> and the list goes on and on. This is covered extensively in [my course]
> >> Sound for Artists.
> >>
> >> Kathy Kennedy
> >>
> >> www.kathykennedy.ca
> >>
> >> On 7-Feb-11, at 10:27 AM, Kevin Austin wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Um ... a music theory course possibly?
> >>>
> >>> But, why is it that such a question comes up in the visual arts side,
> >>> and is a large part of Fine Arts, but is not addressed in Ea / Music
> >>> programs?
> >>>
> >>> Is it possible that ea / music operate in quite different parts of the
> >>> brain than the verbal / spatial representative arts? This is a rocky
> >>> road to try to travel, but ... here goes, "What does a filter 'mean'?"
> >>> I don't think that these post-modern concepts are necessarily easily
> >>> applied to this question.
> >>>
> >>> Can one examine a dominant seventh chord (not a dominatrix
> >>> cat-o-nine-tails cord) within the post-modernist rhetorical framework?
> >>> Perhaps.
> >>>
> >>> Can one bring Freudian concepts to the analysis of Shakespeare? Or
> >>> perhaps yellow journalism for Hamlet:
> >>>
> >>> Psychotic teenager murders father, mother and uncle:
> >>> possible connection to deaths of fiancé, two
> >>> friends and court-jester.
> >>>
> >>> The Freudian vision consoles Hamlet; the yellow journalism looks at
> >>> Hamlet's role in killing all of these people.
> >>>
> >>> Good luck!
> >>> Kevin
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 2011, Feb 7, at 12:29 AM, michael baker wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi List,
> >>>> Has anybody come across any books or articles that examine
> >>>> electroacoustics and/or sound art through the lense of
> >>>> post-colonial/feminist/queer/marxist theory?
> >>>> (I bet you can't guess what BFA prerequisite class I'm writing an
> >>>> essay for. )
> >>>> Thanks
> >>>> Michael
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.kathykennedy.ca
> >> please use new email address:
> >> kathykennedy.ca@gmail.com
> >>
> >
> >
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