Background noise : perspectives on sound art /

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Author / Creator:LaBelle, Brandon, author.
Edition:Second edition.
Imprint:New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Description:xx, 351 pages ; 23 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10142156
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ISBN:9781628923520
1628923520
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Follows the development of sound as an artistic medium and illustrates how sound is put to use within modes of composition, installation, and performance"--
Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Introduction: Auditory Relations
  • Fade In
  • Part 1. 4'33": Sound and Points of Origin
  • Introduction to Part 1
  • Chapter 1. Sociality of Sound: John Cage and Musical Concepts
  • Chapter 2. Exposing the Sound Object: Musique Concrete's Sonic Research
  • Chapter 3. Automatic Music: Group Ongaku's Performative Labors
  • Part 2. Box with the Sound of Its Own Making: From Gags to Sculptural Form
  • Introduction to Part 2
  • Chapter 4. Rhythms of Chaos: Happenings, Environments, and Fluxus
  • Chapter 5. Minimalist Treatments: La Monte Young and Robert Morris
  • Chapter 6. Conceptualizations: Michael Asher and the Subject of Space
  • Part 3. I Am Sitting in a Room: Vocal Intensities
  • Introduction to Part 3
  • Chapter 7. Performing Desire/Performing Fear: Vito Acconci and the Power Plays of Voice
  • Chapter 8. Finding Oneself: Alvin Lucier and the Phenomenal Voice
  • Chapter 9. Word of Mouth: Christof Migone's Little Manias
  • Part 4. Public Supply: Buildings, Constructions, and Locational Listening
  • Introduction to Part 4
  • Chapter 10. Tuning Space: Max Neuhaus and Site-Specific Sound
  • Chapter 11. Other Architectures: Michael Brewster, Maryanne Amacher, and Bernhard Leitner
  • Chapter 12. Composing Intensities: Iannis Xenakis's Multi-media Architectures
  • Part 5. Soundmarks: Environments and Aural Geography
  • Introduction to Part 5
  • Chapter 13. Seeking Ursound: Hildegard Westerkamp, Steve Peters, and the Soundscape
  • Chapter 14. Language Games: Yasunao Tone and the Mechanics of Information
  • Chapter 15. Complicating Place: Bill Fontana and Networking the Soundscape
  • Part 6. Global Strings: Interpersonal and Network Space
  • Introduction to Part 6
  • Chapter 16. Interactions: Achim Wollscheid's Production of the Local
  • Chapter 17. Global Events: Atau Tanaka and Network as Instrument
  • Chapter 18. Live Streams: Apo33 and Multiplying Place
  • Fade Out
  • Conclusion: Auditive Pivot
  • Appendix: Peripheries-Subnature, Phantom Memory, and Dirty Listening
  • Bibliography
  • Index